Scrum Master

Job description

3306440
Additional Cities

Redmond
Career Level

Experienced
Relocation Assistance

No
Business

GE Renewable Energy
Business Segment

Renewable Energy Grid Solutions
Function

Digital Technology
Country/Territory

United States
Additional States/Provinces

Washington
Postal Code

98052-2502
Role Summary/Purpose

In this role, you will be working closely with software development scrum teams to help guide them in Agile/Scrum practices. The Scrum Master does everything possible as a servant-leader to help the team perform at its highest level. This involves removing any impediments to progress, facilitating meetings, training in advanced concepts, and working with the product owner to make sure the product backlog is in good shape and ready for the next sprint.
Essential Responsibilities

·  Coach teams on Agile and Scrum practices to improve software delivery

·  Remove obstacles that are impeding the team’s progress

·  Assessing the Scrum maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity

·  Schedule and facilitate Scrum ceremonies

·  Help the development team reach consensus on what can be achieved during a specific time period

·  Protect the development team from outside distractions

·  Work with product owners and product managers to make sure the team is working on the right priorities

·  Keep up to date with the latest in agile/scrum practices, including scaling, and bring that information to the team to be implemented

·  Reporting out team metrics to leadership and stakeholders
Qualifications/Requirements

·  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electric Engineering, or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

·  Must be Scrum certified and experience as a Scrum Master for at least (2) years for a software development team

Eligibility Requirement:

·  Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.

·  Must be willing to work out of an office located in Redmond, WA.
Desired Characteristics

·  Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques in the Scrum approach (example: numerous burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)

·  Strong communication skills

·  Strong coaching abilities

·  Strong conflict resolution skills

·  Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least (5) years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory

·  Awareness and experience with a wide variety of Agile practices: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, etc.

·  Understanding/experience of the Power industry

·  Knowledge of Scaled Agile frameworks

·  Experience working with multiple teams simultaneously

·  Driven by a clear focus on the Manifesto and the Principles

·  Experience recognizing and dealing with antipatterns

·  Comfortable with challenging the status quo to deliver business value outcomes over just managing output

·  Familiarity with Microservices and modern software architectures

·  Understands what it means to have an empowered team and has experience coaching towards that

·  Expert at creating backlogs including writing, prioritizing, estimating, and sizing user-centered stories

·  Story mapping experience

·  Experience with Release Planning

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About Us

GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE’s mission and deliver for our customers. www.ge.com
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is anEqual Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Primary Country

United States
Primary State/Province

Washington
Primary City

Redmond