Associate Principal Engineer - Scrum Master

Summary

Join our dynamic Digital Product Engineering company as a Scrum Master! Partner with product owners to deliver prioritized backlogs, mitigate risks, and foster collaboration within agile teams. You will leverage your expertise in SAFe and Scrum to guide teams towards self-organization and efficient delivery. Experience with Azure DevOps is crucial, and you'll drive best practices across products and programs. This role requires strong leadership, communication, and project management skills, with a proven track record of successful agile team leadership and delivery. We are looking for someone with 5+ years of experience or 2-3 years of relevant experience in CPG or with a top-tier consulting firm.

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
• 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
• Should be able to articulate Scrum Team's performance building data driven dashboards in ADO and ensure Team's velocity is improved

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