Delta Air Lines OCC/DC – IT team is looking for a Project Manager/Scrum Master with infrastructure background. You will work closely with Business partners, Site Reliability, Enterprise Architects, Product Owners and other parts of the organization including senior level leadership to ensure effective infrastructure delivery based upon defined agile values & principles. They are also someone who leads by example and knows how to bring out the best in people. Our ideal candidate has a passion for Agile practices, a hunger to take on challenging and exciting projects as well as an unrelenting drive to improve technology, tools and processes.
RESPONSIBILITIES IN THIS ROLE:
- Ensuring the team produces continual and on-time delivery of value
- Manage risks, issues, and develop remediation plans.
- Manage customer expectations for project deliverables, produce key stakeholder communications, and follow the defined system of project governance
- Maintain an exceptional level of customer focus centered on integrity and transparency
- Responsible for monitoring and executing the Agile processes.
- Motivate teams to be successful
- Working for changes that will ensure quality and timeliness.
- Ensuring observance of DoD (Definition of done)
- Abide by Delta's agile frameworks (i.e., SAFe, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, TDD, LeSS, or Nexus etc.).
- Bring disclosure and transparency throughout all levels of the enterprise to help foster trust
- Mentor and guide multiple teams on a day-to-day basis including program and portfolio levels roles such as Epic Owners
- Helps identify organizational impediments to successful agile transformation and work with the leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them
- Coordinate dependencies between teams, release trains, Centers of Excellence including other areas
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field
- Embraces Diverse people, thinking and styles
- Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business, Management, Information Systems or Engineering; or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of previous experience as a Scrum Master
- Minimum of 3 years of Airline experience
- Deep understanding of more than one Agile flavor such as Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, Nexus, DevOps, SAFe, etc.
- Experience with relevant Agile tools for managing work (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, Version One, Rally etc.) and understanding and believe that tools are enablers to agile whilst also using information radiators
- Experienced and skilled at teaching technical teams’ agile concepts, principles, frameworks, practices and methodologies
- Significant experience facilitating agile meetings and ceremonies involving the customer and key stakeholders, from initial backlog creation through successful release
- A detail-oriented disposition and clear concise communication skills are a must.
- Must be results oriented and capable of meeting or exceeding aggressive deadlines with attention to detail and highest quality results.
- Excellent communication skills - both verbal and written - group dynamics and coaching.
- Not afraid to raise issues and remove impediments from your team and/or the organization.
- Value continuous learning and improving.
- Familiarity and experience with agile engineering practices like Test Automation, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, etc.
- Superior communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to work across the organization, excellent synthesizing and organization skills, a professional demeanor and the ability to participate in a team environment are key to this position.
- The candidate must be will willing to obtain an in-depth understanding of the organization's technology portfolio. The successful candidate we seek must have a demonstrable track record of achieving success in previous work situations.
- Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for U.S.-based job, if not currently employed by Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified in one or more of the following: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP), SAFe 4.5 or other related agile certifications from a reputable organization.
- 5+ years of experience with one or more Agile development methodologies (i.e. Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, DevOps etc.)