Scrum Master - Costco Travel

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST.  Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. 

Come join the Costco Travel IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Scrum Masters are responsible for the day to day oversight of activities managed by a team while adhering to agile practices and disciplines. They are responsible for working closely with Product Owners to ensure that team members are working on the highest priority work items defined within their respective roadmaps. Scrum Masters prepare deliverables and artifacts that highlight the progress accomplished by teams (velocity, sprint and feature burn ups / burn downs, cumulative flow reports, etc.) and are responsible for presenting those artifacts as needed. Scrum Masters also are responsible for providing hands-on coaching to support the adoption of agile practices and identifying opportunity areas for continuous improvement. Scrum Masters are strong communicators and are required to work closely with other delivery / application teams to support the implementation of working software.
 

The Scrum Masters would work very closely with agile teams, business & leadership to resolve team level impediments and manage risk. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of Agile Scrum and Kanban principles and practices.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

● Facilitates the execution and adoption of scrum ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, retrospectives, etc.).

● Manages the remediation of blockers and issues identified by team members to support the timely completion of sprint deliverables.

● Provides day-to-day coaching to team members to support the adoption of agile practices and disciplines.

● Conducts periodic maturity assessments to identify leading practices and opportunity areas to support the continued growth of a team.

● Supports program planning activities (integrated planning workshops, program increment planning sessions etc.) as necessary.

● Facilitates the definition and implementation of team level working agreements to support the day-to-day delivery of working software.

● Identifies and creates metrics (ex: burnups, cumulative flows, velocity charts) that measure and report on team performance, backlogs health and continuous improvement.

● Supports the implementation of improvement areas identified in team retrospectives.

● Ensures the work implemented by teams adheres to the steps and procedures outlined within the definition of done (DoD) framework.

● Acts as a servant leader for multiple teams and their stakeholders.

● Works with multiple in-house and external Scrum Teams enterprise-wide to remove impediments and manage dependencies.

REQUIRED

● 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master in an Agile environment or a Scaled Agile Framework.

● Experience in managing at least two or more Scrum teams.

● Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

● Experience optimizing SDLC processes to improve quantity and quality of work.