Job Title

Experience:
8-10 years

Common accountabilities:

- Has working experience and advanced and specialized technical/functional knowledge in own discipline. Understands how own area contributes to the business. Acts as a reference for colleagues with less experience and supports junior team members.​

- Influences decisions related to own activity, anticipating dependencies and consequences in complex scenarios, contributes to transversal projects, proposes improvements to processes and is accountable for own and team commitments.​

- Works independently within plan dictated by manager, with some guidance on most complex situations.

Specific accountabilities:

The Scrum Master Senior Specialist coaches 1 or more Agile teams, in a scaled Agile environment like in SAFe. The Scrum Master Senior Specialist is accountable for teaching Agile methodology and practices to his/her team members. They contribute actively and regularly to the Scrum Master Community and are a reference for other Scrum Masters of the Agile Release Train. The Scrum Master Senior Specialist operates in a certain level of complexity (complex train set-up, lot of dependencies cross teams...). Among his/her responsibilities are:

Coach the agile practices
* Coach team leaders and teams members in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets
* Teach the team Agile practices (ceremonies, agile estimation, artifacts, demonstrating the value, continuous improvement, built-in quality)
* Listen and support people with problem identification and decision making
* Is responsible for implementing Agile (Scrum, Kanban) best practices at team level
* Encourage collaboration between teams and stakeholders
* Is responsible for implementing Agile (Scrum, Kanban) best practices by federating & coaching train stakeholders on adopting Agile mindset
* Is a key change agent
* Create an environment of mutual influence, encourage personal development and support the commitment made by the Agile team.
* Participate in the Scrum Master Communities of Practice of to other CoP needed (Quality, DevOps, etc.)

Ensure predictability and transparency of the Agile team
* Manage and optimize the flow of value through the Agile team
* Assist tracking the execution of User stories and capabilities
* Budget definition and dispatch, implementation of the lean budgeting
* Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
* Track and communicate key Agile team execution metrics

Facilitate Agile team events
* Ensure Alignment by Agile team events (planning, refinements, review, retrospectives, etc.)
* Facilitate all ceremonies at team level (Sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective, daily standup)
* Actively prepare and participate to all team ceremonies at Train level (Teams breakouts during the PI planning event, System demo, ART sync )
* Foster Communities of Practice and the use of engineering and Built-In Quality practices
* Summarize Team goals and publish them for visibility and transparency

Ensure Quality of delivery, and leverage customer feedback
* Work with Product Management, Product Owners and other stakeholders to help filling the backlog and demonstrating Agile mindset
* Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings

Manage risk and dependencies

Continuous Improvement
* Drive relentless improvement via retrospective workshops; assess the agility level of the Agile teams and help them improve

Diversity & Inclusion

Amadeus aspires to be a leader in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the tech industry, enabling every employee to reach their full potential by fostering a culture of belonging and fair treatment, attracting the best talent from all backgrounds, and as a role model for an inclusive employee experience.  

Amadeus is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, beliefs, disability or any other characteristics protected by law.