Platform Scrum Master

Company: Marsh and McLennan
Location: Hoboken
Posted on: January 8, 2022

Job Description:

What can you expect?

• This is an opportunity to join an agile, leading edge global platform team during an exciting time definition and building of the point-of-arrival runtime stacks and associated DevOps for Marsh McLennan.
• You will be in a pivotal leadership role in a distinguished technology team transforming the company's digital capabilities, driving solutions that will enable business innovation and agility.
• This is a great opportunity for someone who has the desire to work with teams that are passionate about technology innovation and creating amazing technology development platforms and software developer experiences
• Candidate should have a proven track record of leading Agile multiple teams to successfully deliver technology products solutions. What's in it for you?
  • Work for a global company with excellent benefits and a dynamic culture
  • Excellent growth/advancement opportunity
  • Wonderful opportunity to learn and leverage new technologies and DevOps
  • Work -with collaborative -successful -colleagues -who -truly care about the work and each other while maintaining work life balance -We will count on you to:
    • Actively pursue opportunities to apply agile principles to drive efficiency
    • Work with stakeholders, product owners and scrum teams to effectively implement and run Scrum.
    • Responsible for shippable product and accountable the adherence to release plans and delivery milestones. -
    • Lead & coordinate product backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily standup meeting, sprint reviews. -
    • Establish a culture of continuous improvement by running sprint retrospectives and ensuring accountabilities for all improvements.
    • Identify and manage dependencies and actively work on removing blockers and drive team efficiency.
    • Establish a positive design-thinking, iterative work culture where successes and failures are equally valued and treated as learning opportunities.
    • Use agile tools to track and improve team velocity and effectiveness of scrum team
    • Use agile tools to streamline transparency and reporting, removing the need for redundant status meetings or reports. -
    • Proactively identify, communicate, and mitigate risks. - What you need to have:
      • Significant experience as a scrum master or similar position, ideally at large global organization
      • Ability to work under pressure & successfully prioritize work effectively
      • Excellent skills in planning, analysis, oral and written communication, consensus building, facilitation, negotiation, and the ability to readily learn a new business area
      • Proven capability leading projects in an Agile/DevOps environment
      • Experience in team leadership/management would be advantageous but not essential What makes you stand out:
        • Proven ability to deliver projects from small scale to large mission critical services for global enterprise
        • Familiar with cloud platforms, DevOps and SecOps
        • Strong analytical skills to be able to manage complex problems.
        • You will drive the Agile mindset in everything you do. Maturing your scrum teams and guiding them towards practices and interactions which influences our corporate culture.
        • Lean/Agile leader - Helps the team embrace agile core values, adopt, and apply those principles, and implementation practices
        • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills at all levels with the ability to establish relationships with stakeholders, influence and drive decision making

Keywords: Marsh and McLennan, Hoboken , Platform Scrum Master, IT / Software / Systems , Hoboken, New Jersey