Scrum Master Ii - Bethesda, United States - Marriott International, Inc

Marriott International, Inc

Verified Company

Bethesda, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Job Number

Job Category Information Technology

Location Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland, United States VIEW ON MAP

Schedule Full-Time

Located Remotely? Y

Relocation? N

Position Type Management

JOB SUMMARY
Effectively and efficiently manages the development sprints from planning to execution to review in an agile development environment. Runs daily standups, collaborates on requirement documentation, and unblocks barriers to keep the team moving. Coaches and collaborates with cross-functional teams, Product Owners, other Scrum Masters to foster decision-making and continuous improvement. Ensures objectives match capacity so that team commitments can be achieved.

Demonstrates strong leadership abilities and guide the development of agile capabilities in the Global Technology organization and across Marriott's portfolio of products.

CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education and Experience

Required:

Undergraduate degree, equivalent experience, or certification.
7+ years' information technology experience including:
4+ years of Agile Delivery experience using Waterfall or Scrum, Kanban and SAFe methodologies
4+ years planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
4+ years creating and delivering presentations and project plans.
2+ years working with tools such as Atlassian (JIRA/Confluence)

Preferred:

Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or PMI's Agile Certified Professional (ACP)

PMI Certified

SAFe certified

SAFe Agilist or SAFe Scrum Master
Servant leadership experience as Scrum Master on an Agile Release Train
Familiarity with product/project development experience on an Agile Teams in a technologyfocused organization
Ability to align change management strategies with product development/deployments
Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
Thrives in a highly collaborative, matrixed, complex, fast paced environment

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Leading Organizational Delivery

Supports one or more software delivery team using Scrum or Kanban methodologies
Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Refinement, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines
Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization
Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role
Acts as servant leader of the Agile Team and directs the initiative delivery team
Partner with Product Managers to maintain plans and communicate progress of the team. This includes product roadmaps, scrum team metrics, and program/project status reporting
Proactively identifies impediments and resolves using network of peers or escalation if needed
Supports Release Train Engineer, Product and Tech teams to manage & remove dependencies and optimize the flow

Coaching Teams

Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Lean and Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers
Works with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
Optimizes team performance by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques
Develops understanding and encourages team in engineering practices, DevOps and innovation
Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams
Support the development of behavioral change management, communications and training as needed to drive process and tool adoption, implementation, and compliance
Collaborate with key stakeholder groups to validate the effectiveness of standard processes and continuously improves process quality.
Work with Marriott teams to ensure that processrelated activities address company needs

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Highly motivated person that is passionate about collaborating with others to drive results and can motivate others to do the same to improve the organization
Possesses a teamfirst mentality, has a good sense of humor, is openminded and proactive
Sound technical experience with infrastructure that can understand and translate business requests into consumable stories and vice versa
Excellent oral and written communication skills with a high attention to detail and impeccable time management skills
Ability to selfmanage, recognize and actively address challenges, mediate issues, develop solutions, and implement appropriate courses of action
Highly proficient with MS Office, Jira and Confluence (or