Scrum Master

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Position

Scrum Master

Education

Bachelor/Master

Location

Eindhoven area

Startdate

a.s.a.p.

Contract

12 months from start (extend possible)

Weekly hours

40

Closing date

23-12-2020

Job Mission:
The department supports two development disciplines: Hardware (mechanical, electrical) and Software engineering. The Scrum Master will be active in the Hardeware engineering group, supporting engineering applications for complete D&E and Research worldwide. You will report to the Solution Team Manager Hardware.

The main mission is to guide the scrum teams, ensure timely delivery, facilitate the scrum rituals and helping the team to improve itself without losing the technical complex perspective from your view. As a Scrum Master, you are successful when your team is the best agile team in the organisation.

Job Description:
You will be a leader for the team. Although you have no authority over Scrum team members, you do have authority over the process and play a crucial role in challenging the team to become the best it can be

• Leads, builds and facilitates the team to become high performing

• Helps the people around the team to understand which interaction with the team is helpful or not

• Creates focus in the team on the teams iteration objectives

• Creates transparency and alignment on team speed, quality of deliverables and happiness

• Signals and removes impediments to ensure timely delivery from the scrum team

• Challenges the team to walk the extra mile, come with creative alternatives for business problems

• Ensures the team follows the technical way of working and ensures quality related to own discipline is secured in the team

• Provides analyses of current team rituals, evaluates bottlenecks, risks and dependencies whilst offering advice with regards to improvements in team rituals

• Ensures dependencies and risks are managed by the team

• Ensures the pre-conditions are in place to start a work item (Definition of Ready)

Experience:

• At-least 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master

• Experienced in handling 2 Scrum or DevOps teams

• Experienced in Scaled Agile or SAFe way of working

• Preferably a technical background or a strong interest in technology.

Personal Skills:

• Excellent People and change leadership skills

• A leader that has a high people focus and understands where the team needs to go to from a business point of view

• Facilitator by setting the stage and providing clear boundaries in which the team can collaborate.

• Coach and Mentor: coaching the team with a focus on mindset and behavior, transfers Agile knowledge and experience to the team

• Strong networker to manage impediments, eliminate waste, managing the process, managing the team's health, managing the boundaries of self-organization, and
  managing the culture.

• Teacher to ensure Scrum and other relevant Agile methods are understood and enacted.

• A Change Agent to enable a culture in which Scrum Teams can flourish and reach a high performing state.