Scrum Master

About the role

The Scrum Master coordinates the work of an Agile development team and oversees the software development lifecycle. This role involves planning and facilitating scrum activities such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, and retrospectives. The Scrum Master collaborates with clients or end users to understand business requirements and acts as a liaison between development teams and product management to ensure appropriate project processes are followed. Additionally, they identify and resolve impediments that may slow development or prevent the team from meeting established goals or milestones.

Responsibilities

• Plan and facilitate scrum activities, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, and retrospectives.
• Ensure the breakdown of work.
• Force the breakdown of stories into substories, tasks, spikes, etc.
• Help build the schedule for deliverables (development timeline, PMO would be ultimately responsible for the schedule).
• Resource mapping/loading, what is our capacity? (Project is what we need to do, team should be focused on who needs to do what).
• Strategically identify if the schedule requires more resources than the team currently has. Resource balancing.
• Collaborate with clients or end users to understand business requirements.
• Act as a liaison between development teams and product management to ensure appropriate project processes are followed.
• Identify and resolve impediments that may slow development or prevent the team from meeting established goals or milestones.
• Work with team members on backlog and processes.
• Understand and remove impediments to the scrum process.
• Escalation of risk issues outside of the development group to other management levels (if we fall behind during the sprint, we don’t just accept that, we try to push it and identify what can be done).

Requirements

• 7+ Years of related experience engineering field.
• Bachelor’s degree in related technical field.
• Scrum Master with hands-on experience working with cross functional Agile teams across the following engineering disciplines:
• Mechanical / Electrical Engineering
• Electronics, Embedded Systems & Mechatronics
• Software Development & Validation / Testing
• Functional Safety (ISO 26262 or equivalent standards)
• Proficiency in scrum tools (e.g. JIRA).
• Certification (e.g., Certified ScrumMaster - CSM) is often preferred.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum framework.

Skills

• Scrum Master with hands-on experience working with cross functional Agile teams across the following engineering disciplines:
• Mechanical / Electrical Engineering
• Electronics, Embedded Systems & Mechatronics
• Software Development & Validation / Testing
• Functional Safety (ISO 26262 or equivalent standards)
• Proficiency in scrum tools (e.g. JIRA).
• Certification (e.g., Certified ScrumMaster - CSM) is often preferred.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum framework.

Benefits

Capgemini provides a comprehensive, non-negotiable benefits package to all regular, full-time employees. In the U.S. and Canada, available benefits are determined by local policy and eligibility and may include:

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

Pay

The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: $65,200 - $169,000/Year

Schedule

Fulltime Permanent with Capgemini Engineering