Scrum Master

Moving goods across continents is one thing. Building the platforms that power it, another.

Growing your skills with Maersk means leading the digital revolution of global trade. Building on blockchain to modernise how the world moves? Connecting the global shipping ecosystem? All of this is Maersk. Where will your technology career move next?

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Working in a highly focused and skilled Engineering Team you will serve as a Scrum Master. Here at Maersk the Scrum Master role involves understanding the agile processes, partnering with Product Owner/Client leadership teams, and working with the delivery team, supporting and guiding them to ensure value is released on a regular cadence.

This means that you will ensure the organisation, team and individuals understand and live by agile values. YOU champion the agile and scrum process , YOU teach and coach the team how to use scrum and agile methods to improve value for business outcomes.

As a professional Scrum Master you straightforwardly coach your team to be effective at facilitating the scrum events and how they best approach and resolve impediments. It is your role to help the team stay motivated and support the team’s commitment to the definition of done.

Conflict resolution, relationship and stakeholder management are all part of this important role; and you will support the organisation by providing training, coaching and leadership around agile adoption and practices. You help stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work.

We offer

This position offers a unique opportunity to develop and apply your cutting-edge knowledge and passion of software engineering, data and data science that will transform the transport and logistics industry. As a Scrum Master with Maersk, you will be part of the community of Scrum Masters and engineering practitioners across the company, where we develop the foundations of our future business.
• We operate in a fast-paced environment utilizing modern technologies and bias toward action.
• We value customer outcomes and are passionate about using technology to solve problems.
• We are a diverse team with colleagues from different backgrounds and cultures
• We offer the freedom, and responsibility, to shape the setup and the processes we use in our community
• We support continuous learning, including through our active community of practices, conferences, workshops and meetups.
This is an extremely exciting time to join a dynamic team and solve some of the toughest problems in the industry and build the future of trade & logistics. Maersk’s Technology organisation offers a unique opportunity to impact global trade via the largest container shipping company in the world. We focus on our people and the right candidate will have broad possibilities to further develop competencies in an environment characterised by change and continuous progress.

Key responsibilities

The most critical tasks for our Scrum Master are:
• Understanding the agile processes, partnering with the Product Owner, and working with the team to successfully deliver.
• Coaching other Scrum Masters, team members and the wider organisation on Agile principles, values and practices.
• Supporting the Product Owner to refine and prioritize the backlog.
• Collaboration with other scrum masters, developers, architects, designers, UX experts, external agencies, partners and key people in the business. Helping to drive engagement with stakeholders.
• Driving agility and quality to ensure the team delivers the right quality product. Assisting the teams in constantly improving the quality of their deliverables and meeting the Definition of Done.
• Teaching, mentoring and coaching Senior Stakeholders on Scrum and Agile at scale methods and processes.
• Guiding the team in establishing normalized estimates and helping the team understand how to estimate
• Actively participating in the Scrum Master/Agile community, sharing and re-applying skills.
• Collaborating to identify and mitigate risks, issues and dependencies.
• Coaching and mentoring the teams to become more self-organized and effective at facilitating their daily stand ups, sprint planning meetings, backlog refinement, retrospective meetings and sprint demos.
• Shielding sprint teams from outside distractions and unintended dependencies and interference.
• Coaching and mentoring the teams to become more self-organised by helping them with how they best remove impediments in a timely manner.
• Communicating with other teams and management on progress and dependency handling and ensure the transparency of the team.
• Supporting the recruitment of team members across the department. Identifying training needs and providing coaching/mentoring.

We are looking for

For us, it is all about you, and how we can build the best career with you in mind. Of course, we have an expectation around what you can bring to the role - but don't expect that you bring all of the things mentioned below. In short, we use a more holistic approach to the evaluation of our potential employees- so get in touch to see how you can be part of this journey!

As a successful Scrum Master today, your key skills include:
• Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices.
• Experience working in a large technical Platform environment
• Understand the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks like Kanban, Scrum, XP etc.
• Solid written and concise verbal communication skills and able to articulate technical complexity to be understood by both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Proven influencing, coaching and mentoring experience.
• Ability or proven experience in being effective at coaching the teams how to remove impediments.
• Ability to coach the teams to become self-organised and effective at facilitating sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint retrospective, daily stand ups and other agile sessions.
• Experience of working with multi-location teams.
• Ability to lead the team efforts in relentless improvement. Helping the team improving and taking responsibility for their actions. Teaches problem-solving techniques and helps the team become better problem-solvers for themselves.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and conflicting priorities.
• Able to provide constructive feedback.
Personally you are:
• A friendly and communicative person.
• Conflict resolution and strong negotiating skills. Focused on scrum values of openness and respect.
• Lead by setting a good example and engage the team to achieve goals including mentoring junior staff.
• A champion of industry best-practice within the organisation, advocating for technologies that can improve the way we work.
• Shape the people in the team so that our people continually learn and evolve.
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving.
• Building a high-performing team. Focusing on the ever-improving team dynamics and performance. Helping the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges and opportunities for growth.
• Drive a DevOps mindset to lead self-managed teams.