Scrum Master Sr

Job Summary

Lead, train, and coach agile teams in their adoption of Scrum practices. You will be accountable for establishing Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide, ensuring everyone understands Scrum theory and practice. Your role will focus on enhancing the Scrum Team’s effectiveness by enabling continuous improvement within the Scrum framework.

Job Description

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead, train, and coach the organization in Business Agility including its Scrum adoption.

• Accountable for establishing Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide, by helping everyone understand Scrum theory and practice.

• Accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness, through enabling the team to improve its practices within the Scrum framework.

• Coach team members in self-organization and cross-functionality.

• Coach other scrum masters on improving agile practices.

• Help the team focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done.

• Help remove impediments to the team’s progress.

• Ensure that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.

• Help employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work.

• Remove barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams.

• Help the Product Owner find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management.

• Help the Product Owner establish empirical product planning for a complex environment.

• Foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.

• Responsible for scaling scrum practices across teams and synchronizing work.

• Ability to advise leadership on shaping agile strategy. This involves advising on resolving impediments at the organizational level

• Create and advise on strategy for organization level metrics and reporting to surface bottlenecks and track improvements

• Ensure work being done by teams support larger business objectives including those that span cross functional boundaries

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Certification / Licensure:

• None required.

Work Experience:

• At least 5 years of direct work experience in a full-time Scrum Master role.

• At least 8 years of experience delivering features on a product/software team

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities:

• Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

• Strong knowledge of agile & scrum values and principles

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including verbal, written, synchronous, and asynchronous

• Ability to lead and facilitate others in stressful or uncomfortable situations

• Facilitation skills for teams and larger group events & workshops to reach intended outcomes

• Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool (e.g. Jira) configuration expertise

• Configuration or local admin skills in team virtual collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams/Zoom, Confluence (wiki), and tool such as Miro/Mural

• Ability to learn, understand, and apply new technologies.

PREFERRED JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Certification / Licensure:

• Scrum Master Certification such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Scrum Master/Advanced Scrum Master (SSM/SASM)

Work Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience in fulltime Scrum Master role (i.e. not shared role/partial allocation) with increasing responsibility from Scrum Master to Chief (Senior) Scrum Master, etc. and focusing on the organization and enterprise level

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities:

• Agile Scaling expertise and implementation experience (e.g. SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale)

• Coach certification e.g. SAFe SPC, Scrum Alliance Certified Team/Enterprise Coach (CTC/CEC), ICAgile

• Product delivery experience

• ALM tool certification such as Jira Admin, Jira Managing Cloud Projects

Medline Industries, LP, and its subsidiaries, offer a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

The anticipated salary range for this position:

$116,000.00 - $174,000.00 Annual

The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s location, education, experience, skills, and abilities. This role is bonus and/or incentive eligible. Medline will not pay less than the applicable minimum wage or salary threshold.

Our benefit package includes health insurance, life and disability, 401(k) contributions, paid time off, etc., for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average. For roles where employees work less than 30 hours per week, benefits include 401(k) contributions, paid time off, as well as access to the Employee Assistance Program, Employee Resource Groups and the Employee Service Corp. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits please click here.

We’re dedicated to creating a Medline where everyone feels they belong and can grow their career. We strive to do this by seeking diversity in all forms, acting inclusively, and ensuring that people have tools and resources to perform at their best. Explore our Belonging page here.

Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, neurodivergence, protected veteran status, marital or family status, caregiver responsibilities, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.