Senior Vice President, Scrum Leader

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Scrum Leader to join our Enterprise Transformation team. This role is located in Pittsburgh, PA.

- Establish and maintain Scrum practices, facilitating understanding of Scrum theory and practice within the Scrum Team and the organization.

- Remove impediments to the Team's progress and ensure all Scrum events take place, are productive, and kept within timeboxes.

- Coach Teams in self-management, cross-functionality, and focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done.

- Facilitate stakeholder collaboration, support product goal definition and backlog management, and help establish empirical product planning for complex environments.

- Track and resolve team dependencies, support problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making to enable programs to meet expected outcomes.

- Foster innovation and continuous improvement to increase team productivity and quality of deliverables, integrating DevOps, QA, Architecture, UX, and customer-driven agile strategies.

- Mentor less experienced Scrum Leaders and promote high-performing teams through coaching and development techniques.

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

- 8-10 years of relevant experience in a similar role, preferably with previous technical experience.

- Experience as a Scrum Master for software development teams on large initiatives and knowledge of Agile approaches including Scrum, SAFe, XP, Kanban, and Spotify.

- Proficiency with Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.

- Experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence, with the ability to quickly learn new technologies in an engineering environment.

- Excellent communication, mentoring, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive change, build consensus, and resolve conflicts across multiple parties.

- Preferred Agile certifications including CSM, PSM, and SAFe SSM.