Job Description

Role Description

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Scrum Master to join our team. The ideal candidate will have very strong experience as a Scrum Master and will support fully remote teams working as a SAFe Agile Release Train (ART) with distributed team members globally.

This role involves working within TJX’s Global Buying Tools ART, supporting delivery of releases across all geos for our on-prem and cloud-based solutions that facilitate our Buyers when sourcing TJX merchandise.

The Scrum Master will be responsible for the day-to-day delivery within a scrum team, ensuring planned commitments are delivered on time and to expected quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent delivery skillset, training, or technical work experience (required)
• Strong number of years’ experience as a Scrum Master
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and SAFe framework
• A mindset for continuous process improvement, driven by a focus on delivering value through efficiency with excellent planning, facilitation, coaching, and mentoring skills
• Ability to influence effectively with and without formal authority
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, knowing your audience
• Proven success working in a highly collaborative, matrix environment, with a track record of measurable business impact
• Experience working in hybrid scrum and waterfall environments
• Capability to demonstrate critical thinking and proven track record of positive change
• Solid understanding of agile methodology, scrum, SAFe, and agile tools (JIRA, Confluence)
• Ability to work collaboratively with distributed team members

Requirements

• Supports team impediment removal and dependency tracking
• Facilitates Agile team ceremonies e.g., daily standups, reviews, retrospectives
• Ensures team agreements are in place
• Drives team iteration commitments and plan to maximize business value delivery
• Collaborates with other Scrum Masters across the ART as necessary e.g., Scrum of Scrums
• Coordinates with other teams as necessary, for example Shared Services or DevOps team
• Key Partner with the Product Owner to ensure product backlog items are refined, prioritized and scheduled
• Supports estimating activities within the team
• May support Release Planning
• Responsible for facilitating capacity planning
• Reviews metrics to measure team progress and is responsible for achieving baseline KPI
• Validates time tracking
• Tracks team objectives using appropriate Agile tools/applications
• Protects team from external interference
• Supports ART Readiness/Preparations
• May provide Flow Board Management if supporting a Kanban team
• May be an Epic Owner

Benefits

• Opportunities for growth and recognition
• Competitive salary and benefits package

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