Associate Principal Engineer - Scrum Master

  • Full-time
  • Service Region: UCC

Company Description

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (19000+ experts across 33 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!

Job Description

  • Partner in facilitating product/program-related agile events and maintaining product/program artifacts.
  • Collaborate with Product Ownership to deliver the product/program's prioritized backlog.
  • Understand/anticipate and engage in the escalation/mitigation of risks and impediments - Develop and maintain a productive working relationship with all agile team roles and key product/program stakeholders to ensure execution alignment.
  • Develop and maintain a productive working relationship with all agile team roles, vendors, and key product/program stakeholders to ensure execution alignment.
  • Demonstrate servant leadership by educating and enabling teams on how to self-organize, self-manage, and deliver via Lean-Agile practices.
  • Partner with senior leadership and technology partners to deliver prioritized innovation ideas that align best with PepsiCo priorities while leveraging our technology partners' capabilities & expertise - Manage both up and down the personnel hierarchy.
  • Support the Technical Program Manager in all product delivery activities.
  • Drive Azure DevOps best practices within and across products/programs.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required, with a concentration in either Business or Information Systems Management preferred.
  • 5+ years of work experience, or 2-3 years of relevant experience either in CPG delivery teams or with a Top-Tier consulting firm.
  • Microsoft ADO skills and expertise are a must.
  • Ability to articulate Scrum Team's performance building data driven dashboards in ADO and ensure Team's velocity is improved.
  • SAFe (or noteworthy alternative) Scrum Master certification.
  • Project management experience, including balancing schedules, costs, and timelines.
  • Delivery experience with proven track record of agile team leadership and/or project/product delivery.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop, communicate, and deliver clear program/team status and action plans.
  • Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to articulate delivery plans and challenges to senior and executive leadership.
  • Ability to work in cross-functional team environments and matrix organizations.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, people management experience is a plus.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate with both business and technical audiences effectively and concisely.
  • Preference for experience leading Scrum/Agile team events; preference for experience supporting PI Planning events.
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