Scrum Master

What we offer

Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from

Why We Exist, Our Purpose and Our Transformation

7-Eleven exists to be a customer-obsessed, digitally enabled organization, seamlessly linking our physical stores with digital products and services.Our purpose is to redefine convenience by continually delivering best-in-class customer experiences and solutions in an environment where consumer demands are rapidly changing.By anticipating customer needs, we develop and deploy platforms that allow customers to shop, pay and receive products and services how they choose. For our success, we are executing a cultural change underscored by leadership principles and supported by realigning organizational resources and processes.

SUMMARY

7-Eleven is a dynamic, fun and friendly environment where intelligence and creativity can shine within an innovative environment. Whilst this arguably makes the task of attracting top talent easier, the demand to drive innovation across all areas means our pace of growth is challenging as is our need to hire the best! Hiring, developing and rewarding great talent is part of our DNA. 7-Eleven is a rapidly growing retailer, known for our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee® and Big Bite®. “Brain Freeze” is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 54-year-old Slurpee® and with over 78,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month.

THE ROLE

As a Scrum Master, you are joining a multidisciplinary team of product owners, designers and engineers who create digital products that thousands of people experience every day. We are seeking a creative, hands-on, talented scrum master to be a member of the 7-Eleven Global platform development team.

Responsibilities

Your primary responsibilities will be,

• Managing multiple scrum teams and projects.
• Own project deliverables with right quality, execution/monitoring working with cross functional teams.
• Work with engineering managers for resource commitments & hold the teams accountable for quality & timely deliverables.
• Support teams in project planning by defining and estimating work including defining of tasks, stories.
• Removing impediments for the team with tenacity and urgency.
• Encourages collaboration between teams, Suppliers, Architects and Engineers.
• Guiding and coaching the project teams in technology as and when applicable.
• Playing a leadership role for the overall project/program success.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in SDLC with at least 5+ years of experience as a scrum master for more than 1 team across various geographical areas.
• 5+ years of experience with Agile Scrum, Kanban methodologies and metrics especially SAFE.
• 5+ years experiences working with project tracking software like Jira.
• Assessing and leading scrum team(s), organization and coaching to higher level of maturity.
• Facilitate agile team ceremonies, participate and contribute to daily synchronization meetings.
• Very strong and proven project management experience with focus on First time right & quality SW development.
• Experience facilitating the estimation and planning for creation of useful, reliable and practical plans for next Program Increment and support Product management Team in high level estimation of the product roadmap.
• Experience with servant leadership, confident and inspirational, able to convey goal and purpose, while encouraging self-organization
• Good understanding of product life cycle management.
• Strong Investigation, Analytical and Problem-Solving skills
• Good communication and documentation skills.
• Experience assisting Product Managers/ Owners, System Architect and stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Master.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools - Git (Gitlab), Jira and Confluence
• Exposure to retail industry, experience with e-commerce applications