Senior Vice President, Scrum Leader

Job description

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Scrum Leader to join our Enterprise Transformation team. This role is located in Pittsburgh, PA. In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: Establish and maintain Scrum practices, facilitating understanding of Scrum theory and practice within the Scrum Team and the organization. Remove impediments to the Team’s progress and ensure all Scrum events take place, are productive, and kept within timeboxes.

Coach Teams in self-management, cross-functionality, and focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done. Facilitate stakeholder collaboration, support product goal definition and backlog management, and help establish empirical product planning for complex environments. Track and resolve team dependencies, support problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making to enable programs to meet expected outcomes.

Foster innovation and continuous improvement to increase team productivity and quality of deliverables, integrating DevOps, QA, Architecture, UX, and customer-driven agile strategies. Mentor less experienced Scrum Leaders and promote high-performing teams through coaching and development techniques. To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. 8-10 years of relevant experience in a similar role, preferably with previous technical experience.

Experience as a Scrum Master for software development teams on large initiatives and knowledge of Agile approaches including Scrum, SAFe, XP, Kanban, and Spotify. Proficiency with Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games. Experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence, with the ability to quickly learn new technologies in an engineering environment.

Excellent communication, mentoring, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive change, build consensus, and resolve conflicts across multiple parties. Preferred Agile certifications including CSM, PSM, and SAFe SSM.