JOB DESCRIPTION Our Retail client with over $80B in annual revenue has over 2,000 stores, across 21 US states, with over 400,000 employees. This company is a leader in sustainable retailing with a passion for delivering excellence. By driving omni channel growth, efficiency in the shopping experience and continuing to develop with new technologies; this company is growing and developing continuing success. The leadership team strives for work-life balance for all its employees, with options for overtime if desired.
This is a Senior Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager role who will support several high priority initiatives. Requires a seasoned, professional, and experienced scrum master with deep agile expertise as well as strong experience with waterfall project management who has proven success QUALIFICATIONS
Deep knowledge and experience across agile practices
Standing up new teams through "sprint 0" activities
Leading efforts in support of Product Management to develop the product roadmap in alignment with the team's backlog
Understanding of both Scrum and Kanban team models
All scrum ceremonies and practices
Leading teams consisting of both internal team members and external vendors
Proven experience measuring and leading teams to improve delivery predictability
Proven ability to assess teams’ maturity through retrospectives, metrics, and observations, and experience developing and executing a coaching plan to drive continuous improvements
Experience providing coaching and training on targeted practices to enable improving a team's ways of working
Experience working in a scaled agile environment (i.e. SAFe, or other scaling framework)
Strong communication skills and relationship development
Understanding of Waterfall Project Management, including strong issues, risk mgmt, cost mgmt, dependency mgmt, etc.