Career Area:
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 report 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+ year of IT experience or equivalent or 5+ year 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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