Job description

Siemens Digital Industries Software is a leading provider of solutions for the design, simulation, and manufacture of products across many different industries. Formula 1 cars, skyscrapers, ships, space exploration vehicles, and many of the objects we see in our daily lives are being conceived and manufactured using our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software.
Siemens Digital Industries is an innovation leader in automation and digitalization. Closely, collaborating with partners and customers, we care about the digital transformation in the process and discrete industries. With our Digital Enterprise portfolio, we provide and encourage companies of all sizes with an end-to-end set of products, solutions and services to integrate and digitalize the entire value chain. Meaningful optimization for the specific needs of each industry, our outstanding portfolio supports customers to achieve greater efficiency and flexibility. We are constantly adding innovations to its portfolio to integrate groundbreaking future technologies.
We're seeking a dynamic and seasoned Scrum Master to join our technology and innovation team. This individual will have a pivotal role in executing agile ceremonies in support of teams designing and creating new technologies by working closely with data scientists, developers, and domain experts.

Position Overview

As a Scrum Master in Experience and Platform Engineering organization, the role plays a pivotal role in fostering an Agile mindset within the team and the organization. As a servant-leader, the role is responsible for ensuring that Scrum practices are effectively followed, facilitating the smooth operation of Scrum ceremonies, and promoting continuous improvement. This role involves removing impediments that hinder the team's progress, coaching the team towards self-organization, and creating a collaborative work environment.
In this role, the Scrum Master works closely with the Product Owner to align team efforts with business priorities, guiding the team to deliver high-quality products in short iterative cycles. The Scrum Master also serves as a facilitator and mediator, helping teams resolve conflicts, encouraging open communication, and supporting an efficient workflow. They are key to driving the team's success in delivering valuable products while adhering to Agile principles.
Responsibilities
Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives and track sprint progress, including velocity, burndown charts, and other metrics to inform stakeholders of the team's status.
Help the Product Owner in managing the product backlog, ensuring priority clear, and aligning with the overall goals and coordinate with other Scrum Masters in the organization to share best practices and resolve dependencies across teams.
Identify and eliminate obstacles that could prevent the team from achieving their sprint goals.
Coach teams in Agile practices and principles to help them achieve high performance and self-organization.
Maintain visibility into the teams work, ensuring that all work items and challenges are transparent and understood by stakeholders.

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and hands-on experience in their implementation.
Ability to provide scrum and other agile training to teams.
Ability to resolve conflicts and remove impediments in a team environment!
Experience using Agile project management tools like Jira, Confluence, Whiteboard.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Ability to facilitate collaboration across geographically distributed teams. 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar Agile role.
5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar Agile role!
Solid understanding of Lean principles; knowledge of DevOps practices is a plus.
Experience in scaled Agile environments (SAFe) is a plus.

We are Siemens

A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future, one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow! We offer a comprehensive reward package which includes a competitive basic salary, bonus scheme, generous holiday allowance, pension, and private healthcare.