Remote Associate Principal Engineer

Summary

Join our Digital Product Engineering company as a Scrum Master, where you will 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. Develop and maintain productive working relationships with agile team roles and key stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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, 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