IT HR Products Senior Specialist Scrum Master

Eaton’s IT team is currently seeking a IT HR Products Senior Specialist Scrum Master to join team. This position will be based at our Beachwood, Ohio, Moon TWP, PA, Houston, TX, Galesburg, MI, Raleigh, NC or Menomonee Falls, WI. The position is eligible for hybrid work setup.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $120,075 - $176,110 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What you’ll do:

The HR Product Team Scrum Master will oversee and manage one or more the product and software development teams as a servant leader to create quality project deliverables with agility. This role requires both agile (Scrum and Kanban) and traditional project management knowledge and experience.

The Scrum Master will ensure that teams follow and understand Agile practices and Scrum framework values, work to increase team efficiency, provide motivation and guidance for process improvement, and support adoption of Agile mindset and scaling within the enterprise.

The Scrum Master will ensure that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox. The Scrum Master will work to eliminate cross VS impediments.

The Scrum Master works directly with Product Owners, engineers and other product team members to execute the product roadmap, guide the product development lifecycle, help create user stories, manage the product backlog, in Jira.

• Accountable for all Agile ceremonies of a Scrum team including planning, review, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups
• Drive a Secure Product Development Lifecycle approach that establishes a strong cybersecurity focus and culture across the entire engineering lifecycle
• Trains, mentors, and supports Scrum teams and others within the enterprise to follow and deeply understand Agile values, principles, and practices
• Use Agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions
• Assists the Product Owner with road mapping, epic creation, decomposition and multi-sprint planning
• Support the estimation and prioritization of user stories
• Collect, track, and report Agile metrics on performance and progress
• Support the identification and implementation of improvement opportunities
• Support the resolution of impediments and escalate where required
• Coordinate with other Agile teams to ensure alignment and management of dependencies including participation in Scrum of Scrums or related ceremonies where applicable
• Ensures a psychologically safe environment for the team to raise and resolve issues
• Leads the capacity planning for each sprint
• Communicates risks, status and general updates to stakeholders
• Manage one or more Scrum teams across multiple geographies
• Improve the Agile maturity of the team on a continuous basis
• Support the Product Owner in cost tracking for scrum projects
• Support Resource Managers with Vendor Management and contractor onboarding

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum 7 years of experience working on an Agile team or Project Management experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship now or in the future.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of the work location will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Scrum Master certification preferred
• Experience leading projects, programs, and teams.
• Experience with HR, Talent Acquisition, Learning domain knowledge strongly desired.

Skills:

Technical knowledge:

-Help Product Owner manage product life cycle and ensure new products are inventoried appropriately - Traditional project management skills and experience required (Prepare RFIs, RFPs, project documentation, create and manage financial capital and expense budgets, help facilitate Supplier, Requisition, Purchase Order, and invoice payment requests)

-Strong understanding of product management and modern product delivery processes

• Deep experience working with Agile, including Scrum or Kanban, and how to practice Agile at scale
• Expertise with Agile software tools ( i.e., Jira software) and producing Agile artifacts
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles
• Deep experience with modern software development principles including code management, test automation, APIs, microservices, and cloud services.
• Able to multitask and coach multiple teams

Soft skills:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Patience and empathy working with mentees and people new to Agile
• Comfortable working directly with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Interact effectively with senior leadership
• Excellent listening skills with the intention of understanding
• Experience working with diverse, global cultures, organizations and teams

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