Location: Belfast, NI
Job Summary:
The Scrum Master at aPriori is primarily responsible for ensuring the Agile maturity of our organization under the presumption that a more mature organization is more effective, efficient, healthy, and happy.
This role will bring continuous improvement and an agile mindset to their teams within the portfolio. This includes facilitating and driving the core ceremonies as well as longer term planning cycles. It includes guiding and coaching team members, product owners, and managers, while also identifying and implementing improvement opportunities.
Responsibilities:
• Lead two scrum teams leveraging Agile methodologies and Scrum best practices
• Guide the Product Owner and development team to achieve their full potential
• Resolve conflicts, impediments, and blockers that arise on the team
• Help their teams continue to evolve their Agile maturity
• Ensure the wellness of the team by monitoring and advocating for sustainable pace
Required Skills/Abilities:
• In-depth knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and other methodologies with over five years' experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner or Agile Coach
• Strong communication, facilitation, presentation, and consensus-building skills
• Requires ability to manage projects from conception to successful implementation
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Business, Computer Science, or a related discipline
• Demonstrative experience managing a product
aPriori Offers:
A team environment where your experience is valued, your voice is heard, and the work that you do makes an impact for our customers and employees.
aPriori offers competitive compensation and unique benefits including pension match, private medical & dental, flexible time off, aPriori days, and more in a dynamic, growing, innovative environment!
About aPriori:
Founded in 2003, aPriori is disrupting the industry’s status quo with groundbreaking work helping manufacturers digitally transform their businesses. Through our unique, patented, intellectual property, we enable manufacturers to accelerate product design, and bring products to markets faster while providing visibility to the sustainability of their design and manufacturing choices. Our impact is profound - our customers save millions of dollars each year, accelerate time to market, all while creating a better world for future generations. Though we are an established software firm, through our continued growth, we have maintained the dynamic, collaborative nature of a start-up.
With a global presence, including North America, Europe, Asia, and India, we encourage an inclusive work environment and support employees’ growth through education, training, wellness, and other programs. As our greatest asset, employees’ contributions are acknowledged through monthly company-wide meetings, often with promotions and awards. We promote a positive work culture, employee-friendly policies, flexible work schedules, and an additional day off each quarter known as “aPriori Day”.
Interested in joining our team? We continue to build an organization highly talented, self-motivated individuals. Our unique environment empowers employees to bring their best selves each day, asking, “How can I do better?” and then exceeding expectations. We work together towards a common goal. We nurture and celebrate each other’s successes. Employees embrace opportunities to build new skills as well as step into leadership positions where they are supported and mentored by the Senior Leadership team to grow into impactful individual contributor roles or to effectively manage teams. Innovation, adaptability, and a desire to increase your value are essential. If you possess these qualities, we want to hear from you!
aPriori considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, domestic partner status, civil partnership, pregnancy, age, military veteran status, or disability.
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