
Infrastructure Scrum Master
- Florida
- $81,760-128,480 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
OverviewLeads agile teams by facilitating the agile process, ensuring agile teams are accountable for the success of their project or BAU work effort. Strive to keep the team productive, and take ownership of that productivity by building high performing teams. Has difficult conversations with team members who aren't performing. Looks to constantly improve team's process and motivate the team as much as possible to ensure they are delivering value. Provides visibility into a team's impediments, risks, and any other struggles so adjustments can be made at the program level in order to meet desired results.
Responsibilities
- Manages multiple agile teams acting as the catalyst of the agile team triangle, leading teams, consisting of resources across the enterprise, needed to deliver on prioritized projects and BAU work efforts.
- Manages the team's activities to ensure timely completion of tasks. Removes team impediments. Identifies and communicates potential risks to completing the sprints and releases, including resource, cost, and system. Independently develop corrective actions necessary to mitigate most issues and review them with management for confirmation before execution.
- Facilitates project kick-off and review, release planning, sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews and demos, and retrospectives for agile teams. Presents in various informal settings: one-on-one, small groups, with peers, and functional managers. Presents to Director level and below.
- Ensures agile team members have the information they need to be successful (decisions, constraints, risks, assumptions, status). Assesses strengths and development needs of team members and works with functional to coach individual team members.
- Understands how to leverage agile methodologies to maximize the team's productivity and achieve commitments.
- Builds an accurate release plan that sets a realistic and predictable timeline for key project deliverables. Assists in identifying cross-program/portfolio dependencies, tracks, and monitors resolutions.
- Understands the project's estimated cost and financial impact of the work, including expense vs capital. Responsible for managing project costs, including understanding cost variance throughout the project's life to ensure the team stays within budget. Understands and manages project ROI and proposes a change of direction (including cancelation) if appropriate.
- Measures the quality of work teams produce through various metrics and identifies trends to improve team velocity and throughput. Work with functional managers to recognize inefficiencies and create an improvement plan with the team. Independently acknowledge and work with the team on inefficiencies and process improvements needed.
- Creates and delivers project updates at Program Meetings. Manages these updates as a benchmark of the team's success, including project status, exceptions, dependencies, risks, delays, and project financial health, explaining all variances. Beyond keeping key stakeholders informed, these updates are designed to influence decision-making, drive strategic actions, and foster a positive perception of the project.
- Bachelor's Degree in or equivalent work experience - Preferred
- 5 years of experience in running IT infrastructure projects.
- Act with uncompromising integrity.
- Provide outstanding service and build trusted relationships.
- Drive innovation in our products and services and continually improve our processes.
- Work in partnership and support each other.
- Be personally accountable and deliver on commitments.
- Treat each other with respect and dignity.
- We value your well-being: We provide over 21 comprehensive rewards, including medical coverage, virtual wellness classes, tuition reimbursement, 401(k) + employer match, adoption assistance, financial assistance, and much more.
- We value your time: From paid time off to company holidays, culture days, and comprehensive work-life balance programs, we will ensure you have the flexibility you need to be your best.
- We value your development: Our award-winning training and development programs empower our employees with ongoing learning opportunities to give you the building blocks to grow your career.
- We value your perspective: Our company culture reflects the diversity of our employees. We want you to be you and your voice to be heard.
- We value our communities: We offer paid time off for volunteerism and promote many company-wide and local initiatives that benefit organizations you care about.
Paychex is an equal opportunity employer that fosters a workplace culture of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. Our valued employees and commitment to DEI are the essence of our internal and external success.