What You'll Do
Content Engineering team is looking for an experienced Scrum Lead. As a Scrum Lead to 3 teams, you will support the Technology group to ensure adherence to Agile Process and bring organizational structure, Agile disciplines, and day-to-day operational management to the teams. You will also partner with multiple Agile teams on their release efforts. You will be responsible for evangelizing Agile best practices by educating colleagues, coaching teams and collaborating with leaders on the Agile adoption strategy.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a Scrum Master to at least 3 teams to help build both next generation products and maintain the current product line
- Identifies challenges, creates awareness within team, organizes and facilitates all Scrum-related meetings
- Ability to understand the domain of large and complex software development
- Ensure proactive communication of project status to leadership through proper monitoring of Jira
- Actively brings attention to upstream and downstream dependencies impacting teams
- Provide daily monitoring and coach teams to embrace the Agile way in both spirit and practice
- Help teams to recognize and produce Agile artifacts
- Run Team level breakout sessions during SAFe PI Planning
- Organize Teams in Jira and maintain ticket hygiene
- Manage major/minor releases for the teams
- Creates engaging, fun, communicative and collaborative environment in meetings where Teams are geographically dispersed
Responsibilities
Job Duties
- Serve as a Scrum Master to at least 3 teams to help build both next generation products and maintain the current product line
- Identifies challenges, creates awareness within team, organizes and facilitates all Scrum-related meetings
- Ability to understand the domain of large and complex software development
- Ensure proactive communication of project status to leadership through proper monitoring of Jira
- Actively brings attention to upstream and downstream dependencies impacting teams
- Provide daily monitoring and coach teams to embrace the Agile way in both spirit and practice
- Help teams to recognize and produce Agile artifacts
- Run Team level breakout sessions during SAFe PI Planning
- Organize Teams in Jira and maintain ticket hygiene
- Manage major/minor releases for the teams
- Creates engaging, fun, communicative and collaborative environment in meetings where Teams are geographically dispersed
What You'll Need to be Successful
Requirements / Qualifications
- 3+ years of Agile experiences in Scrum and Kanban with highly technical projects
- 3+ years in mid to large SaaS Product development
- 5+ years of total industry experience in software development, product
- management or Business Analysis
- 1+ years of implementing or working in SAFe framework
- Experience in Agile transformation at a Team level
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
- Scrum Master Certification
Must Have:
- Understand spirit of Agile, and DevOps practices
- Understand implementation details of Scrum & Kanban
- Understand large scale project management
- Understand release planning, coordination, and management
- Have worked with a multi-team data dependency lifecycle environment
- Proficient in Jira, Confluence, and advanced filters
About The Team
About the Team:
Content Engineering department within Avalara owns and develops platform and applications to process content that powers Avalara's products. The problems we solve are challenging and geographically diverse; we employ latest technologies in Cloud Computing, AI/ML and SRE to engineer robust and flexible solutions that solve problems at scale.
This is a Remote role.
How We'll Take Care of You
Total Rewards
In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
Flexible hybrid working
We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.
Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/
About Avalara
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.
We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.
Last year, we became a billion-dollar business
, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.
We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.
We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
EEO Statement
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
