Scrum Master II

The Scrum Master II has primary responsibility of facilitating the formation, learning and growth of multiple cross-functional delivery teams in developing a Lean/Agile mindset, adopting and continuously improving practices in their context, and guiding teams and leaders to enable the effective flow of delivery across the end-to-end value stream. As a servant-leader, the Scrum Master II plays a key role in planning, facilitation, supporting teams, removing impediments, providing team coaching and mentorship, visualizing the Lean value stream to optimize for flow, and working with other Lean/Agile practitioners to exchange learnings at scale.
Responsibilities:

• Facilitate contextual adoption of the Scrum Framework, including daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews & retrospectives, and other related team and intra-team meetings.
• Facilitate contextual adoption of Lean Thinking, including visualization and continuous optimization of delivery flow using the Kanban Method.
• Foster team collaboration and proactive, open communication.
• Encourage an experimental and fail-fast & learn mindset.
• Sustain and promote usage of information radiators for the teams and broader organization.
• Collect and share transparent team metrics with teams, recommend new metrics for the team's context, and foster continuous improvement conversations using metrics.
• Prepare and facilitate quarterly, release, and sprint planning with the product owner and the team.
• Coaches the team on Lean, Agile, and Scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement.
• Create a fun, open, and learning environment, experimenting with various methods to improve and grow.
• Promote teamwork to enable Lean flow of value and achieving sprint goals.
• Lead the teams towards increasing levels of growth in the Lean/Agile context.

Qualifications:

• Candidates need to be based in the Atlanta or Burlington, VT area
• BA/BS degree in related field and 2 years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
• 2 years' experience applying both the Scrum Framework and Kanban Method in growing high performing teams as a fulltime practitioner
• Experience as a Scrum Master and/or Kanban Coach at an organization that is committed to Lean-Agile as its core approach for delivering business value
• Experience working with Lean/Agile teams in the context of cloud infrastructure and DevOps.
• Experience using Lean/Agile collaboration tools like Rally, VersionOne, Jira

Desirable:

• Experience influencing positive and impactful change in organizations working towards Lean/Agile adoption, learning, and growth.
• Willing and able to provide and receive constructive feedback and advice with a growth mindset.
• Manages time extremely well, can quickly sense when an issue needs to be discussed or triaged.
• Ability to dive into the details when applicable, ask probing questions with curiosity, and sense when and how to take action to enable the team's growth.

To be employed in this role, you'll need to clear a pre-employment background check and drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently consider a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.
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