[Remote] IT Scrum Master

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lineage is a logistics company seeking an IT Scrum Master to act as a servant-leader for agile teams. The Scrum Master will facilitate team productivity, coach team members on scrum principles, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure project delivery aligns with priorities.

Responsibilities

• Act as servant-leader to one or more agile teams; removing impediments and ensuring team productivity
• Lead by example, demonstrating and upholding scrum principles.
• Protect the team from distractions and interruptions
• Lead daily scrum standup meetings, ensuring usefulness and adherence to scrum practice
• Ensure team is evaluating stories to meet the definition of done.
• Lead team retrospectives and ensure key learning is incorporated into next sprint.
• Coach team members to uphold scrum principles.
• Track team delivery on commitments through the use of burndown charts and other visual methods
• Produce and post sprint plans and otherwise act as an information radiator.
• Track team velocity to ensure accuracy of future planning.
• Work with key stakeholders to understand priorities and items to be groomed in upcoming sprints
• Ensure stakeholders are informed if changes occur that impact delivery.
• Work with other teams to ensure alignment of priorities and that dependencies are delivered in the appropriate sprints to support other teams’ delivery commitments.
• Actively drive continuous improvement in scrum practices.
• Work with customers as a key stakeholder in setting priorities, understanding requirement work, and communicating progress.
• Drive weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and ‘ready-to-work’ per the stakeholder priorities.
• Provide input to and participate in Release Planning
• Lead Sprint Planning sessions ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold scrum principles.
• Participate in daily bug scrub meetings and work with Product Owner on prioritization and assignment.

Skills

• College diploma or university degree in software engineering, computer science, or business administration and/or 3-5 years equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience as Scrum Master with application software.
• 3-5 Years Project Management experience
• CSM - Certified Scrum Master required
• Assertiveness – able to achieve goals of the team by actively driving to resolution of issues, holding team accountable to their actions and commitments
• Servant-Leader – exhibits the servant-as-leader behaviors of coaching, service to the team, and empowerment of the team to come up with solutions to their problems.
• Self-motivated - capable of managing multiple priorities with little instruction or oversight.
• Collaboration – exhibits ability to work with and through others to achieve shared goals.
• Social – takes an interest in and exhibits socials skills to enhance team bonding.
• Communication skills – maintains frequent and effective communication within and across teams.
• Flexibility – ability to adapt to frequent changes within the scrum framework and principles.
• Organization – ability to organize meetings, reviews, retrospectives
• Facilitation – ability to facilitate meetings, drawing out key concerns and issues to ensure the principle of continuous improvement.
• Tracking – ability to track team progress and velocity using various methods including charts, graphs, development tools, etc.
• High-energy – shows enthusiasm and displays energy to take on daily issues and bring them to conclusion on behalf of the team.
• Agile Practices – basic understanding of agile/scrum iterative practices.
• Software Development – basic understanding of the fundamentals of SOA software development and the software development lifecycle.
• Acts decisively for improvement in both projects and in the organization, addresses urgent, time sensitive or crisis issues
• Leadership skills to align project and department goals with the organization's and sponsor's goals
• Proven ability to lead project team, create and maintain group cohesiveness, interact with internal and external customers, manage vendor relationships
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be willing to occasionally work non-standard hours to support delivery of time-critical project deadlines
• Experience in Supply Chain Management, Freight Forwarding, and/or Contract Logistics preferred
• CSP - Certified Scrum Professional desired
• Experience in Logistics industry desired
• Experience with EDI communications desired

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits
• 401k retirement plan
• Paid time off
• Annual bonus eligibility
• A minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year

Company Overview

• Lineage is one of the world’s leading temperature-controlled industrial REITs and integrated solutions providers with a global network of over 480 strategically located facilities, totaling nearly 2.9 billion cubic feet of capacity across countries in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in Novi, Michigan, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.onelineage.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Lineage has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 5 in 2025, 6 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 7 in 2022, 5 in 2021, 4 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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