Project Manager/Scrum Master

Career Area :

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Business Technologies, Digital and Data

Job Description :

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do but also about each other.

We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live.

Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

The primary purpose of the Project Manager / Scrum Master is to ensure that the team and associate scrum masters are actively following the guidelines of Scrum and Agile to achieve business objectives within Information Technology products / efforts / delivery teams.

Dimensions

• Responsible for three to seven products or services
• Low up to moderate complex product development and services
• Oversee and participate in business analysis and organizational change management
• Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to refinement and maintaining the product backlog and prioritization.
• Understand and adhere to IT and corporate governance processes.

Nature and Scope

• This position provides agile leadership and oversight for low to moderate-complexity products / efforts / delivery teams, which provide solutions to a narrow range of products / solutions in focused business areas.
• Focus is on delivering Information Technology features / outcomes to internal groups involving new or improved practices, procedures, techniques, or systems.
• Implementation is accomplished through small cross-functional teams which are not direct reports and are shared resources.
• Teams will be comprised of individuals from multiple departments and typically single business units and geographical locations.
• Influencing skills are leveraged, combined with the ability to execute.
• May require minimal travel to overcome geographic, technical, and cultural barriers.
• Incumbent exercises judgment following department policies, practices, procedures, and techniques.
• The incumbent will lead the agile activities supported with moderate direction and supervision.
• Customers vary based on services or products
• Activities will be managed in Azure DevOps or another agile tooling
• Work is reviewed by product owners and supervisors
• Work can be conducted in person or remote fashion based on the requirement of the sponsors
• This position reports to a manager and has dotted line reporting to agile centers of excellence.

Principal Accountabilities

• Lead the team ceremonies : Scrum sprint planning, refinement, sprint demos, and retrospective
• Facilitate team conflict resolution by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect
• Help a team / individual / product owners clarify goals and actions to achieve them
• Facilitate team to estimate and plan product / solution in a variety of tools with minor supervision
• Ensure team is incorporating feedback from customers, end-users, and key stakeholders to increase value for our customers continually
• Shield teams from outside distraction / interference
• Track and remove impediments with little to no assistance
• Collaborate with functional SMEs to better define product scope, goals, and deliverables
• Collect business requirements to enable the team to prioritize features / capabilities within the backlog
• Work with the Product Owner to document and make visible the product / solution scope, goals, and deliverables
• Develop estimates, schedules, effort, and cost based on best practices and experience
• Develop and manage a comprehensive plan for products / solutions.
• Identify capacity related risks, recommend potential mitigation, and escalate appropriately, and remediate
• Create an environment of accountability within the delivery team
• Work closely with functional team members to understand product / solution inter-dependencies.
• Execute product delivery based on agile methodologies defined by the enterprise
• Become proficient at using DevOps / Agile tooling and related tools
• Work with subject matter experts to ensure that teams are consistently delivering the highest value
• Prepare, present and review provided features and capabilities regularly with product owners and stakeholders
• Work with internal and external technology suppliers and product owners to ensure an accurate product / solution budget and manage to it
• Manage scope, communicating risks to scope, timeline, budget, and resolve issues
• Identify, document, and escalate resource constraints, conflicts, and impediments
• Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders to meet project deliverables and benefit case
• Ensure product / solution alignment with enterprise standards and processes
• Create an appropriate support model that addresses the support need of the product / solution
• Update technical and job knowledge by learning from more senior-level scrum masters, self-education, and read professional publications.

Required :

• 5+ years of IT experience or equivalent or 5+ years product / project management experience
• 4+ years of agile / scrum experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Three plus years of experience working in an Agile environment as a Scrum Master with knowledge and demonstrated expertise in applying Agile best practices, Scrum ceremonies, and scaled Agile practices.
• Two years of experience in the software development life cycle (requirements gathering, system design, development, testing, release cycle, support)
• Experience running the five Scrum ceremonies
• Two plus years experience in sprint and program increment planning
• Experience implementing Agile estimation techniques
• Two plus years experience in removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to aid in doing so.

Summary Pay Range :

$104,649.00 - $156,973.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience.

Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits :

• Annual incentive bonus plan*
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
• 401k savings plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Healthy Lifestyle Programs
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Career Development

Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O.

As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.

caterpillar.com / careers.

Posting Dates :

April 30, 2024 - May 3, 2024

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

EEO / AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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