Description
Salary Range: $66,304-$105,350
The Scrum Master for Yusen Logistics Americas provides leadership, support, and guidance to project teammates following Agile principles. They are servant leaders who employ daily scrum sessions and a sprint plan to coordinate frequent updates prioritized by a product owner. They are the voice of the development team to deliver valuable software in an Agile environment. Gather, review, analyze, and translate business requirements and functions into well-organized designs and user stories.
- Increase customer and stakeholder satisfaction through effectively employing Agile / Scrum / DevOps practices.
- Collaborate with portfolio partners across multiple business lines to develop and write user stories, which includes writing acceptance criteria.
- Guide teams in the agile methodology, support team rules, facilitate teams progress toward team goals. Lead regular agile sessions to encourage collaboration, transparency, and innovation such as team scrums, sprint planning, user demonstrations.
- Using the data to help the teams assess their Scrum Maturity, optimize scrum team velocity to Organizational KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
- Partnering with portfolio managers to ensure continuous refinement of backlog, which may include stories from multiple projects.
- Work with the team managers to proactively resolve resource problems, project roadblocks, and priority conflicts.
- Produce appropriate team metrics to show incremental value against project goals while highlighting problem areas for continuous improvement.
- Coach and mentor teammates on Agile/ Scrum/ DevOps best practices including Kanban boards, burn down charts, Sprint delivery plans.
- Participate in agile incremental delivery approach which supports incremental development and releases every sprint cycle.
- Refines requirements with portfolio teams and documents requirements into actionable tasks and stories by developers in Azure DevOps
- Conduct post-mortem and perform root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practice to ensure maximum productivity.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education/experience in business, computer science, information systems, or related field
- 3+ years of experience required as:
- Scrum Master
- Project manager for software development
- Business Analyst
- 2+ years of experience in Azure DevOps
- Proven communication skills facilitating technical resources, business, and product owners.
- Extensive knowledge of scrum framework and agile principles, software development lifecycle, and other project management principles.
- Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions.
- Guide team on how to get the most out of self-organization and leverage this to evolve agile practices.
- Is passionate about developing great software and products with capability to balance the business priorities with user requirements.
- Critical thinking, with exceptional process and analytical capabilities, customer focused, aware of the importance of end-user satisfaction.
- One or more agile certifications
- Certified Scrum Master
- Professional Scrum Master
- SAFe
- Agile Certified Practitioner
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work being performed. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required.
Benefits
Yusen offers a generous Employee Benefits Package including:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision beginning the 1st of the month following start date
- 401k with a company match
- Standard 10 days PTO
- Eligible for bonus plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts, Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance, Short & Long Term Disability, Tuition Assistance Program, Commuter Benefits, vacation, and much more
Any and all benefits offered are subject to the eligibility requirements, terms, and provisions set forth in the respective policies and plan documents, which you may request from Human Resources.
About Yusen Logistics (Americas)
Yusen Logistics is working to become the world's preferred supply chain logistics company. Our complete offer is designed to forge better connections between businesses, customers and communities – through innovative supply chain management, freight forwarding, warehousing and distribution services. As a company we're dedicated to a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring everyone who works with us is committed, connected and creative in making us the world's preferred choice.
www.yusen-logistics.com/
Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc. values each individual employee and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce by providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, disability, sexual and gender orientation, genetic information, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.
Los Angeles County Only: Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc. will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act. You do not need to disclose your criminal history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc. is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report. Find out more about the Fair Chance Act by visiting the Civil Right's Department Fair Chance Act webpage.
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