General Motors

Scrum Manager – Body Controls, Authentication and Access

General Motors

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Milford • Missouri • United States

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About the role

  • As a Scrum Manager in VMEC, your main responsibilities will be:
  • This role will require hands on software development (C, Embedded C, C++) experience
  • Perform as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Scrum Team’s content
  • Participate in the following team and program events: Program Increment Planning Experience, Iteration Retrospectives, ART Inspection and Adapt sessions, SM/ART Synchronizations
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather feedback and ensure alignment with business goals and customer needs.
  • Collaborate with System Architects/Engineers and Technical Specialists to determine enablers and coordinate enabler rollout
  • Coordinate dependencies with other Scrum Managers when deliverables are dependent on other teams for completion, attending SM synchronizations as needed
  • Maintain and prioritize the scrum team’s product backlog, ensuring that it is visible, transparent, and understood by the team.
  • Work closely with Scrum Team Leader to ascertain team capacity
  • Translate product and feature strategy into user stories.
  • Provide clear and concise story descriptions and acceptance criteria for user stories to ensure the team understands the requirements and expectations
  • Work day-to-day with the scrum teams clarifying requirements, constantly communicating and gaining alignment around feature or product strategy
  • Provide clearly defined acceptance criteria to enable Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
  • Provide guidance for system demonstration strategy during story creation (unit, integration and system level test strategy)
  • Verify stories are testable and can be used to generate testing objectives
  • Ensure validation and testing of features occurs prior to End User Acceptance
  • Ensure the technical integrity of the product is maintained and enable the solution to address program priorities (Features and Enablers), thoroughly addressing anomalies and other quality concerns in a timely manner
  • Accept each story and participate in team demonstrations and retrospectives to validate quality, providing feedback to team and improving team processes
  • Validate that stories meet their pre-determined acceptance criteria, have appropriate, persistent acceptance tests, and otherwise comply with Definition of Done (DoD)
  • Provide guidance and coaching to scrum team members
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Hands on development experience with C, C++
  • Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) Experience
  • Experience with Project completion and delivery through production
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Computer, Software, Mechanical or related engineering discipline
  • Minimum 5 years of experience with proven technical and professional skills in job-related area required
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects and assignments with autonomy and accountability for results
  • Ability to set and balance priorities efficiently
  • Strong ability to function within the ART and drive change.
  • Scaled Agile or Agile Software Development experience
  • Understanding of the Vehicle Development Process
  • Proficient oral and written communication skills
  • Outstanding interpersonal and relationship management skills to effectively collaborate with varying levels of the organization as needed
  • Strong partnership and teamwork skills, with demonstrated ability to learn from and share knowledge with co-workers in a fast-paced environment
  • High level of integrity, ability to deal with ambiguity, take initiative/self-directed
  • Evidence of strong character with integrity, honesty, accountability and trust
  • Consistent demonstration of innovative thinking that is customer-centric
  • In-depth knowledge of algorithm/software development and calibration of vehicle mechatronic embedded controls
  • Strong understanding of major automotive systems.
Benefits
  • GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs.
  • Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
CEmbedded CC++Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)Test-Driven Development (TDD)algorithm developmentsoftware developmentcalibrationautomotive systemsproject completion
Soft skills
communication skillsinterpersonal skillsrelationship managementteamwork skillsinitiativeaccountabilityautonomyprioritizationinnovative thinkingchange management
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor’s Degree in Computer EngineeringBachelor’s Degree in Software EngineeringBachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering