[Hiring] Sr. Scrum Master @RTX

Role Description

The following position is to join our RTX Enterprise Services team in Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico:

RTX Enterprise Services – Infrastructure is seeking an experienced and motivated Sr Scrum Master (SM) to support the Cloud Hosting Portfolio within the PMO. This Sr SM is responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating multiple Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Scrum teams to deliver a high level of performance, quality, and exceptional business value. They may also be responsible for managing multiple concurrent high-visibility projects in a fast-paced environment crossing multiple organizations. This sometimes requires communicating and managing leaders and stakeholders of increasing seniority.

• Guide, facilitate, and educate Scrum teams on Agile and Scrum practices and values to successfully implement critical projects, leveraging cloud technologies, frameworks, and methodologies.
• Drive and successfully execute projects with multi-functional teams delivering on key objectives and generating business value.
• Assess Scrum maturity of the teams and organization, and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Remove impediments and blockers or guide the team to remove impediments and blockers themselves; escalate impediments and blockers as necessary.
• Driving internal and external communication across the organization, managing dependencies, and radiating information transparently.
• Apply Agile practices to facilitate better ways of working and improved execution of teams.
• Implementing SAFe/Scrum/Kanban frameworks, including visualizing work, limiting work in progress, managing workflow, planning, and providing guidance for daily standups, sprint and Product Increment planning, short, mid, and long-range planning, backlog refinement, and retrospective meetings.
• Ensure progress that is trackable toward objectives, KPIs, and commitments; guide assigned Hosting teams to deliver the required product increments and outcomes.
• Partner with key stakeholders and management team (i.e. Agile Coach, Release Train Engineer, and Team Leads) in backlog prioritization and product increment planning as well as tracking and reporting metrics, providing visibility to the team and stakeholders, ensuring a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Support and educate the Product Owner and Team Leads, especially on the product backlog and ongoing backlog refinement.

Qualifications

• A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years experience.
• Experience working with software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of both SAFe or Agile and traditional project management principles and practices with the ability to blend them together properly to fit our project and business environment.
• Prior experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies with enterprise-level development projects.
• Experience overseeing multi-function Scrum and/or Project teams with at least 5 team members across Developers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and QA engineers.
• Expertise with tools such as Jira, Confluence, PowerBI, and ServiceNOW.

Requirements

• Proven track record of successfully implementing software or infrastructure development projects using Agile methodologies including 10+ years of experience as a Scrum Master and/or Project Manager managing large, complex projects in a high-tech development environment with multi-functional teams. PMP, Certified Scrum Master, and/or SAFe certifications are preferred.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, analytical, communication and technical skills are essential.
• Ability to build and maintain customer relationships; strong team player, able to meet deadlines, and adjust to changing priorities.
• Ability to manage ambiguous or competing requirements, collaborating with project teams to align on solutions and clear impediments or blockers.
• Experience operating in US Government regulated environments with strict compliance requirements.
• Ability to author and present high-quality professional user-facing documentation, presentations, and reports targeted at various personas.
• Consistently able to run multiple Scrum teams simultaneously while maintaining high quality servant leadership and facilitating multiple teams’ growth.
• Proficient in stakeholder management and communication to various levels of leadership including presenting to the company’s senior leadership as needed.
• PMI-ACP, CSM, SSM, RTE or equivalent certifications preferred.

Benefits

• Robust total rewards package with compensation.
• Healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits.
• Career development and recognition programs.
• Parental (including paternal) leave.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Achievement awards.
• Educational assistance.
• Child/adult backup care.