Scrum Master Engineer

Job Description

• Given the organic growth of our enterprise, we do have the need to establish a central pool of tools, with a standardized way of using them in development, in order to assure development excellence, a high standard of quality and reuse across our SW assets, compliance to the standard operating procedures applied in development.
• Work closely with SW development team, help them with the maintenance of the backlog, host the planning meetings, identify the community of users for each service and keep the communities informed about achievements and future plans regularly, in order to assure that the communication is established, and that the users are informed.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Support the SW Methodology Team with the organization of the Planning Ceremonies (Backlog grooming, Planning, Review & Retro, as well as daily stand-up)
• Maintain the backlog, and ensure that JIRA is always updated by the team in order to reflect the reality of the ongoing operations.
• Identify the key users for our products from the users community and keep them informed regularly about the achievements and future plans of the team.
• Create and maintain users distributions list for our products and services.
• Support the team to remove road-blockers, and be a facilitator for the day-to-day operations in execution, and support the team to respect the timeline.
• Report to management when deadlines can’t be met, or when there are operational issues encountered in the team.

Key Performance Measures:

• Efficiency of planning (planned vs. actuals) of the team.
• Monthly achievements of the team centralized, and prepared communication for management review.
• Be an active team member of the team, and listen to the operational challenges, as well as reporting them to management and drive the resolution.
• Prove the ability and willingness to learn new skills over time which are required for the job
• Integrate into the existing team and be a team player

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in tech. industry, IT, Communications.
• Good organization and reporting skills.
• Expert knowledge in IT Communications.
• Proven experience as a Scrum Master or facilitator of a SW team.
• General knowledge of a planning and task management tool
• Good skills in MS Office and any project management / task tracking tool (e.g. JIRA, TFS, Polarion or others)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related equivalent
• Experience with agile frameworks - like Scrum or Kanban.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Additional Information

Key Relationships:

• Keep a close contact with the IT and SW development teams
• Teamspirit & Teamplayer

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We remain agile and fearless as we accelerate our growth, encouraging everyone to play an active role with an entrepreneurial mindset and accountability.
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.

• Make a real impact by developing automotive, industrial, infrastructure, IoT, and sustainable products and solutions to meet our customers’ evolving needs and help people and communities thrive tomorrow.

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from Day 1.
  

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.