Scrum Master Lead

Bring your energy, experience, and technical skills around consumer Mobile Apps for connected appliances.

For us going to work everyday has an even greater purpose than putting the latest product or technology on the market. It’s about improving the everyday lives of millions. By staying humble and open for new ideas – we can push the boundaries for cooking, cleaning and wellbeing at home. But to keep doing so, we need more people who want to innovate and re-imagine what life at home can be, by delivering new consumer experiences through mobile, voice and the other digital touchpoints.

Scrum master lead – Stockholm

As an enterprise producing millions of appliances each year and counting more than 50.000 employees, Electrolux is already offering a portfolio of digital platforms allowing end-consumers to live a unique experience in interacting with smart home appliances in a variety of mobile-driven user journeys across cooking, cleaning and wellbeing at home.

Such an offer is nowadays significantly growing in terms of volume, support to new product categories, and innovative use cases to be launched as part of the mobile digital agenda.

The life-cycle practices involved in creating, developing, launching and maintaining such mobile applications are requiring them to be managed as Software Products with an agile discipline, so we are looking at mobile scrum masters with people management experience to work as part of the Mobile and Connectivity Consumer Solutions team, a key enabler of the company’s digital agenda with regards to Consumer Mobile and IoT.

A REGULAR DAY AT WORK

You will lead a team of scrum masters for mobile software product teams.

You will be the key IT contact point for the scrum master competency.

You will work with internal mobile Scrum development team to facilitate the team to understand the big development picture of each sprint, by appropriately planning and assigning development tasks, in order to create, develop, launch and maintain Electrolux consumer-facing mobile applications interacting with the Electrolux Connectivity ecosystem, across iOS and Android platforms.

Your responsibilities will include helping the team agree on what they can achieve during each development sprint, facilitating the daily stand-up and helping the team continuously make progress on the project by making sure each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacles to the team members’ progress, and protecting the team from distractions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Creating an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture
• Setting clear team strategy and goals
• Monitoring team performance and giving feedback to team members
• Discovering training needs and providing coaching
• Handling the Electrolux administrative duties for managing a team
• Closely collaborating with Product Owner to prepare and clarify the product backlog
• Ownership and accountability of establishing agile values, methods, principles and practices for the delivery of product features
• Facilitating agile ceremonies at Scrum team level, including product backlog refinement, preplanning, planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, etc.
• Resolving conflicts, removing impediments or guiding the team to resolve/remove them by finding the right personnel to resolve/remove them
• Coaching and mentoring team members on agile standards and best practices, e., Lean, Kanban, Scrum, DevOps, SAFe, etc.
• Supporting overall adoption of SAFe by coaching stakeholders and other non-agile teams on effective interactions with agile teams
• Supporting the coordination of inter-team cooperation and helping the SCRUM team to operate well on the Agile Release Train (ART), by continuously improve communications and relationships with other teams (e.g. Scrum of Scrums)
• Facilitating preparation and readiness for ART events including PI Planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt

YOU

· Proactive. You are self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook. You’re not just solving the tasks, you always think ahead and identifying operational issues and drive resolution

· Results oriented. You are strong customer focused and have ability to develop and sustain a network with cross-functional teams.

· Task oriented. You have solid project management skills, with the ability and willingness to balance consumer needs with business priority.

· Communicative. You are excellent in interacting with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders at various levels of the organization.

· Flexible. You adapt to a fast-paced, collaborative, process-driven environment and adjust plans on-the-fly.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Must have

• University degree
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in leading an own team or group of people during projects
• A minimum of 3 years of Scrum Master experience for a Mobile/IoT software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory first level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I)
• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
• Excellent English knowledge, written and spoken
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Self-motivated, fast learner, technology agnostic, pragmatic
• Excellent communication and mentoring skill
• Willingness to work in a high pressure and delivery oriented team
• Proven project participation experience
• Experience of Atlassian toolset: Jira & Confluence

Nice to have

Experience with SAfE teams

• Second level Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM II)
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team
• Previous experience as a Team Lead