JOB SUMMARY

Marriott International is seeking a highly engaged and motivated Scrum Master who is passionate about continuously improving their skills and learning new technologies. The Scrum Master will guide and facilitate teams through ceremonies, events, and meetings within the Agile team framework and support Agile best practices including leading stand up, ensuring the team meets the definition of done, managing story points/burndown, and removing impediments/barriers. 

The ideal candidate will have the proven ability to work within a highly complex and fast-paced environment and will have a high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others on a demanding program at a large enterprise.

Candidate Profile:

Required:

• Expert in Agile tools, such as Jira, Confluence, etc. 

• Agile practitioner mindset with an understanding of common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and iterative development practices 

• Minimum 5 years of experience in IT full development life cycle

• Demonstrated track record of successful ability to manage large and complex technical engagements

• Flexibility to work with teams, individuals and leadership and willingness to help with a wide variety of work products and people

• Ability to establish immediate credibility with developers, build consensus, and achieve goals through influence

• Excellent oral and written communication skills 

Preferred:

• Experience leading quality assurance efforts including automated application development testing

• Hospitality industry experience

• CSM certification or equivalent preferred

Core Work Activities: 

• Facilitates the work of a squad team on a sprint-by-sprint basis 

• Responsible for steering contributors through all the scrum ceremonies including sprint increment planning, demos, reviews

• Drives the squad to continuously improve through the facilitation of Retrospectives quarterly, or more often as needed, to improve backlog management, sprint reviews, or higher-level functions

• Functions as escalation point for the squad to resolve issues 

• Maintains agile tools and dashboards to track stories, defects, and progress toward commitments Managing Program Increments, Projects and Policies 

• Informs the appropriate team members of feature or project status and related issues and impediments and escalates appropriately