Associate Principal Engineer - Scrum Master

Company Description

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (19000+ experts across 33 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!

Job Description

• Partner in facilitating product/program-related agile events and maintaining product/program artifacts.
• Collaborate with Product Ownership to deliver the product/program's prioritized backlog.
• Understand/anticipate and engage in the escalation/mitigation of risks and impediments.
• Develop and maintain a productive working relationship with all agile team roles and key product/program stakeholders to ensure execution alignment.
• Develop and maintain a productive working relationship with all agile team roles, vendors, and key product/program stakeholders to ensure execution alignment.
• Demonstrate servant leadership by educating and enabling teams on how to self-organize, self-manage, and deliver via Lean-Agile practices.
• Partner with senior leadership and technology partners to deliver prioritized innovation ideas that align best with PepsiCo priorities while leveraging our technology partners' capabilities & expertise.
• Drive Azure DevOps best practices within and across products/programs.

Qualifications

Must have Skills: SAFe, Scrum Master.

Good To Have Skills: Azure Devops - Changsets management (Expert), Azure Devops - Work Item Creation and Management (Expert).

• 5+ years of work experience, or 2-3 years of relevant experience either in CPG delivery teams or with a Top-Tier consulting firm.
• Microsoft ADO skills and expertise are a must.
• Should be able to articulate Scrum Team's performance building data driven dashboards in ADO and ensure Team's velocity is improved.
• SAFe (or noteworthy alternative) Scrum Master certification.
• Project management experience, including balancing schedules, costs, and timelines.
• Credible delivery experience with proven track record of agile team leadership and/or project/product delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, communicate, and deliver clear program/team status and action plans.
• Preference for experience leading Scrum/Agile team events; preference for experience supporting PI Planning events.