Agile Scrum Master

Job description

Job ID 1024532 Date posted 4/30/2018 Primary Location Westborough, Massachusetts, United States Job Category Engineering Schedule Full time Shift No shift premium (United States of America)

Are you looking for an Agile Scrum Master role? What if it could be with one of the most impactful IT companies in the world?

At Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), we bring together the brightest minds to create breakthrough technology solutions that advance the way people live and work. Our legacy inspires us as we forge ahead, focused and dedicated to helping our customers make their mark on the world.

What sets us apart? Our people. Our people’s relentless commitment to partner, innovate, and act. If solving the world’s biggest technology challenges sounds like the right career path for you, read on.

About the Agile Scrum Master

HPE SimpliVity team is looking for an Agile Scrum Master to join a world-class engineering team in Westborough, MA. No relocation assistance available.

In this role, you will bring a strong vision for creating the best workplace possible, and act as full-time Scrum Master for 2-3 teams, promoting Agile best practices, and working with multiple stakeholders to identify and remove impediments. The ideal candidate will be passionate about getting the best out of individuals and teams through the power of self-organization.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

·  serve as subject matter expert on agile mindset and agile practices
·  enable the Scrum teams to perform at the highest level by instilling Scrum values, coaching the team, removing impediments, and protecting the team from disruption
·  organize and facilitate team backlog management, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, demos, and other Scrum-related rituals
·  assist Product Owners as needed with backlog maintenance, internal and external communication, improving transparency, and disseminating information
·  share Agile knowledge and best practices across the organization to maximize Scrum team performance and effectiveness
·  coach teams, individuals, and the organization in collaboration, transparency, iteration and being customer focused
·  create high performing, self-organized teams that can’t wait to get into the office
·  challenge assumptions about how we work together and how we develop our product and collaborate with us to find a better way
·  build consensus through collaboration using your ability to influence without authority
·  help to evolve a culture of high performance and innovation that allows people to thrive
·  cultivate a culture of learning and a thirst to learn faster than our competitors
·  perform other duties as needed and assigned

Education and Experience Required

·  Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Engineering, Computer Sciences, or other relevant discipline
·  6+ years’ experience working in the transition of an organization from waterfall to agile
·  3+ years working in an Agile environment
·  2+ years’ experience as an agile scrum master, product owner, or agile coach
·  Without a Bachelor’s degree, an additional 2 years' experience, for a total of 8+ years
·  PMP/PMI certification preferred
·  Attainment of one or more agile-related certifications: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Coach (CSC), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)

Knowledge and Skills Required

·  Demonstrable proficiency in Agile methods, including Scrum, Kanban
·  Comfortable with the implementation and execution of Scrum in an environment where individuals are unfamiliar with the methodology
·  Experience as a facilitator, able to apply various techniques to ensure effective meetings both co-located and distributed
·  Strong leadership skills and a history of leading through influence
·  Collaborative approach to decision-making on teams
·  Ability to work under limited supervision
·  Ability to help existing leadership understand their changing role

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Values

Partnership first : We believe in the power of collaboration - building long term relationships with our customers, our partners and euch other

Bias for action : We never sit still - we take advantage of every opportunity

Innovators at heart : We are driven to innovate - creating both practical and breakthrough advancements

What do we offer?

Extensive social benefits, flexible working hours, a competitive salary and shared values, make Hewlett Packard Enterprise one of the world´s most attractive employers. At HPE our goal is to provide equal opportunities, work-life balance, and constantly evolving career opportunities.

If you are looking for challenges in a pleasant and international work environment, then we definitely want to hear from you. below, or directly via our Careers Portal at www.hpe.com/careers

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About HPE SimpliVity

HPE SimpliVity, as a leading provider of software-defined, hyperconverged infrastructure, provides an industry-leading software-defined data management platform, to deliver the industry’s only “built-for-enterprise” hyperconverged offering.

Rapid proliferation of applications and the increasing cost of maintaining legacy infrastructure cause significant IT challenges for many organizations. With HPE SimpliVity, businesses can streamline and enable IT operations at a fraction of the cost of traditional and public cloud solutions by combining IT infrastructure and advanced data services into a single, integrated all-flash solution. HPE SimpliVity is a powerful, simple, and efficient hyperconverged platform that joins best-in-class data services with the world’s best-selling servers and offers the industry’s most complete guarantee.

The true power of hyperconvergence comes from full consolidation of software and hardware devices. HPE SimpliVity combines a customer’s entire infrastructure into a simple, flexible building block so they can reduce the cost and complexity of their IT environment and deliver the technology their organization needs.

About Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Tomorrow belongs to the fast, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise is in the acceleration business!

To help companies accelerate, we’ve created a new company, one that defines transformation—and defies “business as usual”. In the fast-paced, quick-release environment of the future, you need to be constantly ready for change, be resourceful, and be highly adaptable to the ever-changing business landscape.

HPE is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is not only the company best equipped to build a bridge from where enterprise IT is today, to where it needs to be, but

HPE is also an incredible place to build a career. As the only company that brings it all—software, hardware, services, and talented people with the right mindset—we help organizations innovate, stay competitive, and quickly turn ideas into value.

Please note the above statements describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not a complete list of all required responsibilities, duties and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.