Associate Principal Engineer - Scrum Master

Summary

Join our Digital Product Engineering company as a Scrum Master and partner in facilitating product/program-related agile events. Collaborate with Product Ownership to deliver the prioritized backlog, understand and mitigate risks, and maintain productive relationships with agile team roles and stakeholders. Demonstrate servant leadership by educating teams on Lean-Agile practices and partner with senior leadership to deliver innovation. Drive Azure DevOps best practices and articulate Scrum Team performance using data-driven dashboards. This role requires a SAFe Scrum Master certification and 5+ years of experience (or 2-3 years in CPG or top-tier consulting). Microsoft ADO skills and project management experience are essential.

Requirements

• Must have Skills: SAFe, Scrum Master
• 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
• Should be able 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
• Credible 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

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 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
• Drive Azure DevOps best practices within and across products/programs

Preferred Qualifications

• Good To Have Skills: Azure Devops - Changsets management (Expert), Azure Devops - Work Item Creation and Management (Expert)
• Preference for experience leading Scrum/Agile team events; preference for experience supporting PI Planning events