Scrum Master

This role is open to a remote resource.

Are you a Pioneering Spirit? Lowe's is looking for Visionaries, Risktakers, Adventurers. Lowe’s is looking for someone that is driven by potential — A trailblazer of innovation. We are a multibillion dollar company with 5 million MyLowes users and millions of daily site visits. We ’ re looking for someone that dares to take risks and is excited about the opportunity to work on problems that have never been attempted. So if you ’ re an innovator, the kind of person who thinks outside the box and is always excited about your next challenge, you might just be the Pioneering Spirit we ’ re looking for.

PURPOSE OF ROLE:

The Scrum Master is responsible for guiding 1-2 team(s) through the use of Agile/Scrum practices and values for the purpose of delivering quality software and solutions back to the organization. This includes responsibility for assisting in the delivery of software solutions by maintaining information radiators (metrics) and making them transparent to management. Keeps the team focused on the right priorities, and ensures the team is continuously improving. This role is critical to Lowe's as it actively leads Lowe's transition into becoming an Agile organization a new way to approach software that will affect all of Lowe's.

RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENTS

• Ensures the team follows standard processes while identifying opportunities for improvement

• Facilitates team in defining Working Agreements, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done and then ensures those agreements are upheld

• Oversees Agile ceremonies: daily stand-up (scrum) meetings, retrospectives, demos, backlog grooming/refinement, backlog sizing, sprint planning

• Understands and uses a variety of techniques to continuously optimize ceremonies and team participation and engagement

• Helps identify and remove impediments, escalates impediments to project manager; recommends ways to resolve impediments, and influences leadership to take action on these recommendations

• Inspects and adapts process through retrospectives, data/metrics tracking and creating a safe, trusting environment with space to grow

• Assists with internal and external communication, and improving transparency by creating visible information radiators (burn-downs, velocity chart, etc), dashboards and demos

• Facilitates completing projects without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work directly as well as facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

• Observes team interactions and uses emotional intelligence to discuss observations in a safe, trusting environment
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QUALIFICATIONS

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, MIS or related field

4 years of IT or related business experience

3 years of Project or team leadership

2 years of e xperience working in a large matrixed organization

2-3 years of e xperience performing the Scrum Master for a software development team utilizing SDLC

First level Scrum Master Certification (PSM I, CSM)

PREFERRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

CSP or PMI-ACP certification

Certifications from the ICAgile Certified Expert Agile Coaching track

3-4 years of experience in software development team

2 years of experience in corporate retail experience

Experience with other Agile methodologies

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About Lowe's

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE ® 50 home improvement company serving more than 17 million customers a week in the United States , Canada and Mexico. With fiscal year 2016 sales of $65.0 billion, Lowe’s and its related businesses operate or service more than 2,375 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 290,000 employees. Founded in 1946 and based in Mooresville, N.C. , Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs that focus on K-12 public education and community improvement projects. For more information, visit Lowes.com