Job Title: Agile Lead/Product Owner
Contract Duration: 2 year contract
Location: Bellevue, WA (1-3X a month onsite for meetings)
SUMMARY
- Leads application development teams leveraging agile best practices and frameworks.
- Facilitates agile daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.
- Coordinates the work of aligned scrum team(s) enabling successful team-based outcomes.
- Partners with aligned product owner(s) and business stakeholders to maintain a high quality product backlog with the appropriate depth of features and stories.
- Becomes trusted long term leader learning the business, technology and processes of the aligned application area while advancing agile delivery practices.
- Proactively engages with scrum team members, architects, managers, and support teams to remove technical,
- Process and business impediments, support successful completion of goals, and continuously improve delivery processes and team’s capabilities.
- Adept at enabling collaboration, managing conflict resolution, coaching others, and being a servant leader within the IT organization.
- Upholds the safety compliance standards inherent in our operating and/or field procedures related to work responsibilities
- Promotes and supports a culture of total safety.
- Demonstrates commitment to conduct business honestly, ethically and consistent with our core values and code of conduct
- Ensures duties are performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leads daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, collaboration sessions, demos and decision-making sessions.
- Facilitates creation and implementation of technical solutions with team and support organizations.
- Helps the Scrum team to clarify goals and actions to achieve them while minimizing distractions and removing impediments.
- Guides team through delivery estimation and commitment sessions that allow for teams to meet or exceed expectations.
- Coaches scrum team members on agile best practices.
- Enables collaboration by building safe environment within the team which encourages all voices to be heard while facilitating team decision making.
- Works with IT and business managers to staff the scrum teams with appropriately skilled people to meet delivery expectations.
- Understands and helps resolve business and technical issues within the team.
- Responsible for conducting retrospective meetings and support team improvement efforts.
- Participates with other scrum leads in a “Community of Practice” to advance the use and maturity of Agile
- Participates in Scrum of Scrum meetings to provide detail and transparency to team progress and impediments if applicable.
- Works closely with product owner to manage backlogs and outcomes.
- May also be responsible for some project management deliverables depending on the aligned team and work.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS / KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / ABILITIES
- Two (2) year degree or certification in a technology-related field or equivalent combination of education, work
- Experience or relevant military experience, and at least four (4) years of experience in related field.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with inherent servant leader characteristics.
- Three or more (3+) years of working experience with agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban,
- XP, SAFe, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to coach teams on agile and scrum best practices.
- Experience with shifting teams to iterative and incremental software development and delivery.
- Experience working on agile and waterfall initiatives with ability to facilitate delivery that best fits the organizational needs and expectations.
- Three or more (3+) years of demonstrated experience leading software development processes and procedures as a technical lead, developer, analyst, scrum lead, or project manager.
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate accurate estimating and commitment schedules.
- Ability to use, produce, and communicate standard scrum metrics and project management deliverables with team and stakeholders.
- Experience with most aspects of agile and scrum process including backlog development, story writing, task, development, and release management.
- Familiar with software engineering practices.
- Experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) / Azure DevOPS Server or similar tool for work management and reporting.
- Proven experience in managing expectations on team commmitments for deliverables based on data.
- Experience in having conversations which focus on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS / KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / ABILITIES
- Undergraduate degree.
- Customer centric focus with demonstrated ability to apply insights to meet customer technology needs and improve IT maturity.
- Proven experience working independently and/or in a team environments to deliver on initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to drive for results to deliver against commitments.
- Growth mindset to rapidly learn new skills and be able to collaborate to deliver creative IT solutions.
- Solid verbal and written communications skills; ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding.
- Professional Scrum Master Training or Certification.
- Professional Scrum Developer.
- Professional Scrum with Kanban.
- Utilities or regulatory software development experience preferred.
- Application development experience in technologies supported by aligned scrum team (Web, SAP, etc.).
- ITIL experience.
