Minor Hotels Europe and Americas

Scrum Master

Minor Hotels Europe and Americas

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Atlanta • United States

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Salary

💰 $110,000 - $120,000 per year

About the role

  • Coaching two Scrum teams to achieve greater Agile maturity while maintaining a sustainable and productive development pace
  • Facilitating all Agile ceremonies, incl. sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, to keep the teams aligned & on track
  • Participate in Scrum of Scrums and facilitate Program Increment (PI) execution
  • Work alongside the product owner as a key team leader to proactively identify and resolve potential challenges before they arise
  • Maintain relevant metrics that report on progress (e.g. burndown charts, defect trends, user story/feature completion rates, capacity, velocity)
  • Supporting and enabling product owners in managing backlogs, refining user stories, and ensuring priorities are clear to drive successful sprint outcomes, in line with business KPIs
  • Anticipating and resolving obstacles that hinder progress, enabling your teams to focus on their goals and deliver value consistently
  • Acting as a change agent, advocating for Agile principles and best practices across teams and the organization.
  • Coaching team towards self-organization within SAFe
  • Communication: Foster internal team communication by building a trusting and safe environment where the emphasis on problem-solving. Facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution
  • Influence stakeholders' including leaders Agile behavior's through direct feedback and guidance
  • Engage with individual squad members and group to identify opportunities to improve Agile performance and practices and enhance Agile mindset

Requirements

  • You are certified as a Scrum Master (CSM) & hold SAFe certification
  • You have significant experience as a dedicated Scrum Master, helping development teams apply Agile, Scrum/SAFe & DevSecOps practices
  • Strong leadership skills, with a track record of proactively driving process improvements and solving problems for the product team to enhance ability to deliver value
  • Ability to create value for the product by actively anticipating and resolving issues
  • You are proficient in Agile methodologies and experienced in proactively identifying and removing roadblocks to help teams maintain and enhance momentum
  • You are highly organized and detail-oriented, with a proven ability to lead Agile ceremonies and track progress metrics (i.e. burndown charts, velocity, and user story completion rates)
  • You have strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to build trust within teams and facilitate effective collaboration between team members and stakeholders across the business
  • You are an effective and experienced coach, capable of guiding teams to be self-organizing and achieve their objectives.
  • You are passionate about Agile and have experience in highly matrixed organizations where influencing without direct authority is key to success
  • You have worked in the P&C insurance (4+ years)
  • You have been involved with Agile Release Train / acted as a Release Train Engineer
Benefits
  • Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade
  • Company paid holidays
  • Personal Days
  • Sick Leave
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
  • Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Employee assistance programs
  • Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
Agile methodologiesScrumSAFeDevSecOpsburndown chartsvelocityuser story completion ratesmetrics trackingcoachingproblem-solving
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationinterpersonal skillsorganizational skillstrust buildingcollaborationinfluencingconflict resolutionproactive identificationself-organization
Certifications
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)SAFe certification