Scrum Master

Imagine working for a company that measures its success based off the growth of its colleagues, a company that invests in its future by investing in you. Little Caesars is a company where our colleagues make an impact.

Your Mission:

Imagine working for a company that measures its success based off the growth of its colleagues, a company that invests in its future by investing in you. Little Caesars is a company where our colleagues make an impact. In this role, you will ensure agile teams execute exciting, mission-critical web and mobile projects to help us take our processes to the next level. You will play a key role working with IT leadership and all aspects of the digital team to ensure the success of high-profile and mission-critical projects. You will provide work direction to multiple project teams and act with discretion and authority relative to project management.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Work closely with the product owners and technology leads to push the agile development process forward for multiple software development projects in Little Caesars digital portfolio for web and mobile.

• Develop integrated baseline project plans applying estimating models, identify resources and skills required, document estimating assumptions, refine plans and manage performance against them.

• Provide regular updates and statuses to senior-level IT management.

• Facilitate daily scrum meetings with the entire project team, participating in sprint reviews, product backlog and sprint backlog grooming sessions, and retrospectives.

• Track and manage project status through traditional agile tools such as burndown charts as well as baselines, metrics and goals.

• Create a calendar of sprints and releases at a “scrum of scrums” level in collaboration with IT Management. Communicate this schedule to stakeholders.

• Act as a gatekeeper for software releases to Quality Assurance (QA) and Production environments.

• Publish release notes to stakeholders and customers.

• Facilitate the team’s progress towards those goals by resolving or escalating conflicts, issues and roadblocks.

• Provide work guidance and coach team members, fostering a collaborative culture and resolve conflict involving prioritization, design or preference.

• Drive a continuous improvement culture within the team and business.

• Build relationships with the business in order to coordinate all aspects of project delivery and deliver product to specifications in a timely manner.

• Work with the team to develop and improve standard process methodologies for both IT and the business.

• Manage project closure initiatives, such as client satisfaction survey and closure analysis.

Who You Are:

• First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field. A combination of education and/or experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

• Demonstrated prior success as a Scrum Master using formal agile techniques.

• Mastery of Agile methodology and principles.

• Three (3) or more years' experience as Software Program/ Project Manager using Agile Techniques and iterative development.

• Previous experience with formal or informal project team supervision, including team member selection, performance, coaching, mentoring and development.

• Ability to manage multiple scrum teams simultaneously.

• Prior experience working on custom software development projects.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate with all levels of colleagues, both technical and non-technical.

• Strong working knowledge of burndown metrics, velocity, user story development and task definition.

• Highly proficient in the use of MS Office applications such as Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

• Ability to drive results in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.

What Will Make You Stand Out:

• Second level Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM II)

• Knowledge of multiple Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, etc.

• Previous experience working on software development teams in non-manager capacity such as a developer or a business analyst.

Where You'll Work:

• This position may require minimal travel to vendor locations, assessment at stores and Ilitch Companies facilities, data centers or seminars/networking. <