IT Scrum Master

As part of an Agile/Scrum team, the Scrum Master performs the critical role of Servant-Leader to the team. The Scrum Master uses their skills of collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and coaching to support the development of our software applications, removing impediments while promoting the team’s self-management and continuous improvement.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leadership
  • Act as servant-leader to one or more agile teams; removing impediments and ensuring team productivity
  • Lead by example, demonstrating and upholding scrum principles.
  • Protect the team from distractions and interruptions
  • Lead daily scrum standup meetings, ensuring usefulness and adherence to scrum practice
  • Ensure team is evaluating stories to meet the definition of done.
  • Lead team retrospectives and ensure key learning is incorporated into next sprint.
• Coaching
  • Coach team members to uphold scrum principles.
• Communication/Tracking
  • Track team delivery on commitments through the use of burndown charts and other visual methods
  • Produce and post sprint plans and otherwise act as an information radiator.
  • Track team velocity to ensure accuracy of future planning.
• Collaboration
  • Work with key stakeholders to understand priorities and items to be groomed in upcoming sprints
  • Ensure stakeholders are informed if changes occur that impact delivery.
  • Work with other teams to ensure alignment of priorities and that dependencies are delivered in the appropriate sprints to support other teams’ delivery commitments.
  • Actively drive continuous improvement in scrum practices.
  • Work with customers as a key stakeholder in setting priorities, understanding requirement work, and communicating progress.
• Planning
  • Drive weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and ‘ready-to-work’ per the stakeholder priorities.
  • Provide input to and participate in Release Planning
  • Lead Sprint Planning sessions ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold scrum principles.
  • Participate in daily bug scrub meetings and work with Product Owner on prioritization and assignment.

EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE

• College diploma or university degree in software engineering, computer science, or business administration and/or 3-5 years equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience as Scrum Master with application software.
• 3-5 Years Project Management experience
• Experience in Supply Chain Management, Freight Forwarding, and/or Contract Logistics preferred
• CSM - Certified Scrum Master required
• CSP - Certified Scrum Professional desired
• Experience in Logistics industry desired
• Experience with EDI communications desired

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Assertiveness – able to achieve goals of the team by actively driving to resolution of issues, holding team accountable to their actions and commitments
• Servant-Leader – exhibits the servant-as-leader behaviors of coaching, service to the team, and empowerment of the team to come up with solutions to their problems.
• Self-motivated - capable of managing multiple priorities with little instruction or oversight.
• Collaboration – exhibits ability to work with and through others to achieve shared goals..
• Social – takes an interest in and exhibits socials skills to enhance team bonding.
• Communication skills – maintains frequent and effective communication within and across teams.
• Flexibility – ability to adapt to frequent changes within the scrum framework and principles.
• Organization – ability to organize meetings, reviews, retrospectives
• Facilitation – ability to facilitate meetings, drawing out key concerns and issues to ensure the principle of continuous improvement.
• Tracking – ability to track team progress and velocity using various methods including charts, graphs, development tools, etc.
• High-energy – shows enthusiasm and displays energy to take on daily issues and bring them to conclusion on behalf of the team.
• Agile Practices – basic understanding of agile/scrum iterative practices.
• Software Development – basic understanding of the fundamentals of SOA software development and the software development lifecycle.
• Acts decisively for improvement in both projects and in the organization, addresses urgent, time sensitive or crisis issues
• Leadership skills to align project and department goals with the organization's and sponsor's goals
• Proven ability to lead project team, create and maintain group cohesiveness, interact with internal and external customers, manage vendor relationships
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be willing to occasionally work non-standard hours to support delivery of time-critical project deadlines

Why Lineage?
This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers’ requirements. Beyond that, you’ll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We’ll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.

Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation.  Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.
Benefits

Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.