Delivery Scrum Master

Introduction
The Weather Company, an IBM Business is seeking a certified Scrum Master to join the Engineering Operations and Strategy team. This role will report directly to the Global Head of the Department.
In this role, you will have the responsibility of being the single, lead Scrum Master for the organization’s top priority initiatives. You will be responsible for leading teams to deliver on complex technical projects that touch multiple parts of the organization. You will set and establish the cadences, ceremonies, and discipline to help our agile teams work more effectively.

The ideal candidate will have proven Scrum Master experience managing multiple projects, ideally technical projects that were cross-platform. The selected candidate will need to have excellent management, organizational, communication, and relationship building skills.

The candidate must be extremely comfortable interacting with various levels of personnel, including Executives.

Your Role and Responsibilities
In this new, exciting, fast- paced role, you will oversee and guide scrum teams for extremely high profile, top priority, fast moving projects, which the ideal candidate should find motivating and challenging. You should have a proven record of on-time deliverable dates, even with tight deadlines. To be most successful in this role, you will excel at the following responsibilities:

• Use agile methodologies, principles, and practices to plan, manage and deliver solutions
• Work diligently to eliminate blockers for the teams
• Provide the necessary training, mentoring and support to the Agile teams to follow agile best practices
• Track and manage velocity from the teams, offering guidance on ways to make improvements
• Prepare, present, and provide reports, including velocity and status reports to key stakeholders
• Setting and strictly adhering to the cadence and ceremonies established
• Establish and promote the discipline around agile methodologies to the team
• Use collaborative and transparent processes
• Use JIRA as a main tracking tool with the teams
• Help the team understand the goals and scope of work set by the Product Owner
• Develop key relationships within the business to help processes and decisions run smoothly
• Escalate appropriately and quickly as issues are identified

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• CSM Certification, SAFe prefered or PSM Certification
• 3+ years of experience as Scrum Master
• SME in Agile best practices
• Comfortable interacting with all levels of personnel within the organization
• Excellent people and interpersonal skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Previous Project Management experience
• Experience using JIRA or similar tracking tool
• 3+ years leading product or software development products
• Leadership experience

IBM’s Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM’s Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments—with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organizations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.

This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status with supporting documentation, where legally permissible.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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