Senior Scrum Master

OrangePeople has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Scrum Master to join our expanding team. Your primary role will be helping to build high performing and self-sustaining teams while growing a healthy, collaborative, and continuously improving culture. You should be an expert in team building, business agility, lean product delivery, and have at least 5 years' experience as a Scrum Master on a team with proven and demonstrable results in that role. You should be able to talk in detail about agility, the Scrum Framework, and product delivery in an empirical environment, and be able to present on ad hoc topics as requested. You are first and foremost a team coach and should be able to describe what this means in depth. About The Scope Of Work: This position is with the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Center of Excellence (COE) which provides enterprise-wide support for SAP, Ariba, and Governance Risk Compliance (GRC). The focus is on improving the user experience, kaizen of business processes and system performance improvements. The COE is responsible for ensuring that the implemented solutions support and stay aligned with the needs of the business. Services To Be Performed:

• Execute Scrum Master processes including work planning and tracking, deliverable management, team communications, and Agile practice coaching.
• Facilitate the Scrum of Scrums and other Agile Ceremonies.
• Coach and support management in refinement of Agile practices and in improving efficiencies and effectiveness of the teams.
• Coach and support management in Backlog creation, Backlog management, and Backlog refinement.
• Support management in the areas of stakeholder management, scope management, team alignment, resource management, work planning and status updates.
• Manage story status and its content within JIRA.
• Provide velocity reporting by sprints.
• Mitigate risks/issues, manage team workload and progress for its timely delivery.
• Expected to represent and speak to the tasks/deliveries/stories of the team.
• Keep the teams aligned with the overall ERP objectives and milestones.
• Facilitate cross-team integration.
• Facilitate and help perform requests and special studies on behalf of the teams.
• Manage and help improve Agile and Team tools and processes.

• Motivated to take action to improve team delivery.
• Not afraid to raise issues and inspire change while being comfortable dealing with situations of conflict, ambiguity, and uncertainty.
• Work beyond team boundaries to improve efficiencies, workflow, and value delivered.
• Demonstrated deep system level thinking and proven ability to impact whole program dynamics.
• Proven track record of facilitating, coaching, and mentoring teams and leaders towards rapidly delivering high impact, high quality, software in a sustainable fashion.
• Deep expertise in helping teams build and develop trust, safety, and effective communication.
• Committed to the development of all team members and continuous development of capability within the department
• Committed to continuous learning and able to demonstrate a pattern of personal development in agility.
• Previous experience in large corporations as a Scrum Master with a background in Accounting and Finance processes.
• Strong recent experience in JIRA/Confluence as well as Microsoft office.
• Experience and expertise in multiple agile approaches (Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, Lean, etc.), and ability and flexibility to adapt approach to fit team and product environment.
• Experience with full software development life cycle and advocating for modern agile software development and organizational practices.
• Ability to explain the differences between various Scrum Scaling frameworks and approaches.
• Ability to troubleshoot and problem solve.
• Effective written and oral communication.
• Ability to overcome organizational resistance to change.
• Ability to present and create PowerPoint presentations at an executive level.
• Ability to pay attention to details and be able to take an overarching view.
• Requires a very organized individual.
• Relevant practitioner level certifications (PSMII/CSP) are preferred.
• Manufacturing or automotive background preferred.

• Participate in OrangePeople monthly team meetings, and participate in team-building efforts.
• Contribute to OrangePeople technical discussions, peer reviews, etc.
• Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
• Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.