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Position Summary

The Information Technology (IT) Scrum Master (SM) is a key role responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of value within the IT organization. This role serves as a servant leader and coach for the Agile teams, facilitating team events and processes, coaching and supporting teams in delivering value.

The SM in Midstream IT teams will have persistent focus on relentless improvement for how MPC uses technology that enables our business. The SM will work closely with Midstream Product Owners and product teams. The role will provide daily leadership for the team to ensure alignment of goals and plans, relieving impediments, and most importantly holding teams accountable for delivering commitments and value.

The SM provides transparency to Midstream value delivery through open communication with and between Product Owners, delivery teams and other stakeholders. The SM will facilitate collaboration with other product teams, other portfolios, onsite teams, and non-product team members. The SM will ensure visibility of delivery progress, challenges, risks, and successes. The SM is responsible for supporting the organization's portfolios, products, programs, and structured work efforts whilst applying continuous improvement to advance portfolio maturity, increase predictability, and achieve Midstream and MPC goals.

The SM will advance the MPC agile journey by serving as a champion and change-lead for MPC agile transformation. The SM will coach, mentor and promote the use of agile principles, standards and best practices to teams. In the enterprise, the SM will collaborate and contribute to Agile process maturity through the Agile Community of Practice.

A successful candidate will possess exceptional communication skills with particular emphasis on facilitating discussions and driving for consensus, often among the highly diverse participants and interests. A successful candidate must be able to gain trust and build confidence with all team members and senior leadership to establish effective collaboration.

This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.

Key Responsibilities

• Establishes Agile practices (Scrum or Kanban) for multiple teams by creating optimal environments for development and collaboration.
• Facilitates team and cross team events to proactively identify stakeholder opportunities and maintain open lines of communication. Proactively coaches and advises Product Owner and people leaders on team configuration and dynamics for optimal delivery.
• Monitors project or iteration planning, including setting goals and objectives, defining roles and developing detailed timelines.
• Identifies obstacles and impediments or enables the team to remove impediments. Seeks innovative ways to bring out more predictable planning outcomes and goal development in team settings.
• Implements team processes, automation, etc. that improves adherence to governance, controls and best practices in Agile delivery or DevSecOps.
• Identifies critical team stakeholders, and proactively finds opportunities for them to engage in team events.
• Coaches Product Owners and others toward advanced Story and Feature development, including behavior-driven development concepts; story mapping, definitions of done and automation, as appropriate.
• Drives Agile Methodology, including iteration planning, refinements, retrospectives, and daily standups for a team or team-of teams.
• Adopts and implements Agile mindsets and practices, develops education for the organization on Agile best practices.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems preferred, related field or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of relevant experience required
• Scaled Agile Scrum Master certification and experience is required
• PMP Certification and Waterfall experience is preferred

Skills

• Agile Methodology - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
• Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
• Change Management - The process of controlled identification, planning and implementation of required initiatives to prepare, support and