Scrum Master (Adms Dna)

Siemens

What are my responsibilities?

• Working within international software development teams across global locations to develop electrical power system modeling and analysis software with the main responsibility of enabling and coaching teams to achieve committed goals and to constantly improve the team's performance,
• Ensuring that the relevant “SAFe – Scaled Agile Framework” principles and ceremonies are understood and adhered to by the team (e.g. sprint planning, standups, sprint demo, retrospective, backlog refinement),
• Collaborating with SAFe coaches to grow within role,
• Guiding the team along all relevant process steps and ensuring that the team deliverables are in quality and compliant to the defined process framework,
• Supporting and coaching the team to keep focus and achieve transparency in its progress also towards external stakeholders,
• Supporting and coaching the team in removing or escalating impediments that the team cannot solve internally,
• Sustaining a timely and constructive cooperation of the team with the product owner and other stakeholders,
• Increasing team performance and value orientation by fostering reflection and continuous learning,
• Facilitating the team's creativity and self-empowerment to challenge product content definition and way of working,
• Sharing best practices and collaborating with other scrum teams,
• Supporting inter/multi team synchronization for large projects (e.g. scrum of scrum),
• Filling Scrum Master role in one or two team(s) which typically formed around 10 member(s) each including Architects, Product Owners, Developers and Testers,
• Driving the relentless improvement of the team,
• Taking ownerships in Siemens wide organizational roles to support working as One Global Team.

What do I need to qualify for this job?

Required Qualifications:

• B.S. and/or M.S. degree in Electrical-Electronics Engineering or Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or comparable education),
• Minimum 3 years of experience in complex software development projects and methodologies,
• Proven 1+ year leadership or project management experience of agile/lean development methodologies (e.g. SAFe, Scrum),
• Proven 1+ year experience in international/intercultural or offshore teams,
• Certified in Agile practices (e.g. Scrum, SAFe),
• Experience in using ALM tools for tracking agile process (e.g. JIRA)

Preferable Additional skills/experiences (i.e. is a plus):

• Knowledge in design and development of distributed software systems,
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GIT,
• Awareness or experience with different Agile techniques: User Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Desired Soft skills:
• Excellent target group-oriented communication of complex issues and interpersonal communication,
• Able to approach other people, listen them and establish a trust environment,
• Able to guide the team to focus on positive team spirit and to overcome possible impediments,
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills,
• Strong self-organization including ability to work independently and manage time effectively,
• Teammate with highly collaborative, self-motivated, customer focused, positive and upbeat attitude,
• Committed to quality oriented, tidy and well documented business delivery,
• Committed to quality value creation,
• Eager to learn new technologies, tools and Energy domain know-how,
• Able to facilitate the collaboration between Global and Local teams,
• Comfortable interpreting and understanding initially unfamiliar concepts

What else do I need to know?

• Fluent command of English is a must, German is a plus.
• No restrictions for travelling abroad temporarily.