Sr Scrum Master

Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world-leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you. 

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

Job Purpose & Dimensions: 

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at www.renesas.com.

Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

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.