Lead Scrum Master

Job Description

Maersk is going through times of unprecedented change and is growing its capability to provide enhanced Cyber Security solutions to support the organization s Digital Transformation.We are looking for Lead Scrum Masters who are passionate about working in an ever-changing environment and can influence changes in ways of working to meet this mammoth task, while delivering effective and cost-efficient solutions. A Lead Scrum Masters who understand the agile processes, partnering with Product Owner/Client leadership teams, and working with the delivery team, supporting, and guiding them to ensure value is released on a regular cadence. Who can ensure that the organization, team, and individuals understand and live by agile values. They champion the agile and scrum process; Actively promote, teach, coach and mentor the team on how to use scrum and agile methods to improve value for business outcome. They will need excellent communication, relationship, and stakeholder management skills, as well as being able to resolve team conflicts and use this to build stronger team capabilities. Continuously developing the team, organization, and stakeholders to be effective in scrum events and resolving impediments, while ensuring the team and peers to stay motivated and support the team(s) commitment to the definition of done. We are looking for a Lead Scrum master who has a good knowledge of agile adoption and practices. They help stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work.Show More We offerAs a Lead Scrum Master within Cyber Security at Maersk you will be exposed to a wide and challenging range of business issues, communicate across geographical and cultural borders that will enable you to build a strong professional network. We will provide you with opportunities to broaden your knowledge and strengthen your technical and professional foundation as part of our growing community of Scrum Masters from across many parts of the organization and the globe. We offer an opportunity to help develop in the agile foundations that will shape Maersk in our future business.By joining us, you will work within agile teams that are responsible in providing crucial Cyber Security capability for the entire Maersk Global Organization and its customers. gain broad business knowledge of the company s activities globally, in addition to understanding how the complexity of technology supports the digitized transport and logistics business.This is a key role in support of Maersk Technologys transformation to platform-based development and increased usage of microservices.Show More Key responsibilitiesServes as the servant leader of a scrum team by identifying and removing any potential impediments that may hamper the delivery of the agreed sprint outcomes, manage any emerging dependencies, and help the team remain successful and on schedule. Work with the product owners to understand and break down the business strategy, process, objectives, and technology to prioritize the backlog against business value, and ensure work is aligned with objectives and help the team deliver Actively facilitate sessions between stakeholders to promote collaboration, build a shared roadmap and help the teams overcome any delivery roadblocks Shield the scrum teams from outside distractions and unintended dependencies or interference Driving agility and quality to ensure the team delivers the right quality product. Assisting the teams in constantly improving the quality of their deliverables, to understand and normalize estimates and meeting the Definition of Done. Teach and mentor the scrum teams, team members and the wider organization on Agile Principles, Values and Scrum practices to ensure that they become more self-organizing and enable them to have effective Scrum events. Collaboration with other scrum masters, developers, architects, designers, UX experts, external agencies, partners, and key people in the business. Helping to drive engagement with stakeholders. Contribute to the Scrum Master/Agile community, sharing and re-applying skills. Use Agile tools to provide transparency and communicate on the teams activity/progress using shared reports, tracking, and reporting of backlog progress including clear identification of associated risks, dependencies, or any issues Supporting the recruitment of team members across the department. Identifying training needs and providing coaching/mentoring.Show More We are looking forA champion of Agile principles and values, and an understanding of different scaling models and is able to apply appropriate practices when required Proven knowledge of multiple Agile frameworks, XP, Kanban, Less, SAFe 5 years + Experience of working as a Lead Scrum Master or Senior scrum Master within a large company that has successfully transitioned to Agile practices. Proven experience at delivering agile transformation at portfolio level. Experienced in the use of Product Development Tools including Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, power BI, Aha!, Has a large range of skills and tooling knowledge that can be used to support and drive the management of the product backlog and the ability to build a definition of an MVP Experienced in working closely within portfolio management, to define processes needed for an Agile transformation across a platform organisation. Experience at working within an Agile Portfolio management team Ability to design and create portfolio mapping at management level Strong conflict resolution skills while remaining focused on scrum values of openness and respect. Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artefacts with the ability to advocate the appropriate agile insight to support improvement. Ability to coach the teams to become self-organised and effective at facilitating sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint retrospective, daily stand ups and other agile sessions Is experienced in using a range of coaching techniques such as the GROW model To be able to lead the team efforts in relentless improvement. Guiding the team to improve and take responsibility for their actions. Teaches and coach problem-solving techniques and helps the team become better problem-solvers for themselves. Knowledge of Cyber Security principles and the drive to learn more Strong verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated experience engaging and influencing cross functional teams. To be able to Identify and remove any potential impediments/blockers to the delivery of the agreed sprint duration and manage any emerging dependencies throughout the sprint(s), escalating where necessary Can lead system development lifecycle models based on the context of the work and is able to apply predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches as appropriate The ability to work independently in a multi-location team to plan and manage multiple assignments with conflicting priorities. Build and advocate a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving. To cultivate productive working relationships with a wide variety of teams and leaders. Experienced in team motivation and able to influence teams particularly in complex and challenging environments Has a practical knowledge and experience of the full software development lifecycle from ideation through implementation, support and onto end of life in an agile context Ability to enable continuous improvement and shape the agile approach to suit the Digital organization A friendly and communitive person who has strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills, we are seeing someone who is focused on the scrum values of openness and respect. Someone who can lead by example, encourage, and engage with the teams to achieve goals and to grow into a high performing team who are keen to learn and evolve. To grow and develop teams to overcome interpersonal conflicts, challenges and strive for opportunities A champion of industry best-practice within the organisation, advocating for technologies that can improve the way we work. Champion and drive a DevOps mindset to lead self-managed teams.Show More,

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