The Scrum Master II organizes and facilitates meetings, enhances team efficiency, manages project scope and deliverables, and ensures adherence to agile principles.
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Job Details
Primary Duties & Responsibilities: • Organize and facilitate standard meetings, backlog preparation, iteration planning, retrospectives, iteration reviews and daily stand-ups• Foster continuous improvement and coach the scrum teams to a higher level of self-organizing maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization• Cultivate customer focus as the team collaborates to deliver solutions achieving the desired business outcome• Facilitate the sizing of stories during the planning sprint, backlog grooming, or sprint planning sessions for the team• Leverage metrics to assist delivery, enable transparency and optimize the iterative / incremental development process• Resolve or escalate blocking impediments and known risks through analysis and prioritization• Manage and negotiate scope, timeline, quality, goals, and deliverables that support business goals and monitor schedule and cost performance throughout the life of the project• Brainstorm with the team to arrive at solutions to challenges and roadblocks to assigned projects with guidance from more experienced managers• Work with the product manager and other stakeholders to determine staffing requirements by giving inputs about project workload and expected fulfillment time• Maintain process documentation and ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
Educational Qualifications:
Education: • Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Information Systems or Engineering
Certifications: • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) or any other related certification is required
Work Experience: • 5 - 7 years of IT experience including prior Scrum Master experience
Skills and Knowledge:
Behavioral Skills: • Collaborative Approach• Strong Influencing Skills• Task Prioritization• Time Management• Strategic Thinking• Planning and Organizational Skills• Foster Positive Work Environment• Strong Communication and Presentation Skills• Analytical and Problem-solving skills• Ownership and Initiative - taking• Negotiation Management
Technical Skills: • Technical aptitude to work closely with software engineers• Competent understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)• Knowledge of both agile and waterfall methodologies on technically complex projects
Tools Knowledge:• Working knowledge of Microsoft Applications including MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio• Knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps• Understanding of Project and Portfolio Management tools e.g., Clarity, Open Workbench• Knowledge of Microsoft technology stack (C#, SQL Server)
What Cencora offers
We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora
Full time
Equal Employment Opportunity
Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.
The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.
Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [email protected]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned
Affiliated Companies
Affiliated Companies: AmerisourceBergen Services Corporation
Job Details
Primary Duties & Responsibilities: • Organize and facilitate standard meetings, backlog preparation, iteration planning, retrospectives, iteration reviews and daily stand-ups• Foster continuous improvement and coach the scrum teams to a higher level of self-organizing maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization• Cultivate customer focus as the team collaborates to deliver solutions achieving the desired business outcome• Facilitate the sizing of stories during the planning sprint, backlog grooming, or sprint planning sessions for the team• Leverage metrics to assist delivery, enable transparency and optimize the iterative / incremental development process• Resolve or escalate blocking impediments and known risks through analysis and prioritization• Manage and negotiate scope, timeline, quality, goals, and deliverables that support business goals and monitor schedule and cost performance throughout the life of the project• Brainstorm with the team to arrive at solutions to challenges and roadblocks to assigned projects with guidance from more experienced managers• Work with the product manager and other stakeholders to determine staffing requirements by giving inputs about project workload and expected fulfillment time• Maintain process documentation and ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
Educational Qualifications:
Education: • Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Information Systems or Engineering
Certifications: • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) or any other related certification is required
Work Experience: • 5 - 7 years of IT experience including prior Scrum Master experience
Skills and Knowledge:
Behavioral Skills: • Collaborative Approach• Strong Influencing Skills• Task Prioritization• Time Management• Strategic Thinking• Planning and Organizational Skills• Foster Positive Work Environment• Strong Communication and Presentation Skills• Analytical and Problem-solving skills• Ownership and Initiative - taking• Negotiation Management
Technical Skills: • Technical aptitude to work closely with software engineers• Competent understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)• Knowledge of both agile and waterfall methodologies on technically complex projects
Tools Knowledge:• Working knowledge of Microsoft Applications including MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio• Knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps• Understanding of Project and Portfolio Management tools e.g., Clarity, Open Workbench• Knowledge of Microsoft technology stack (C#, SQL Server)
What Cencora offers
We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora
Full time
Equal Employment Opportunity
Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.
The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.
Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [email protected]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned
Affiliated Companies
Affiliated Companies: AmerisourceBergen Services Corporation
Top Skills
Azure Devops
C#
Clarity
JIRA
Microsoft Applications
MS Office
Ms Project
Ms Visio
Open Workbench
SQL Server
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