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National Fuel Gas Company (Buffalo) SCRUM Master in Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, NY. National Fuel. SCRUM Master. FT. Benefits. $90,000-$110,000/Year.
National Fuel is seeking a SCRUM Master for an outstanding career opportunity in our Information Technology department at our Williamsville, NY headquarters. National Fuel is proud to have an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, hard work is rewarded and promotion from within is supported. We offer exciting career opportunities for talented and ambitious job seekers and encourage you to apply today.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: Support and guide multiple Scrum teams. Responsibilities include ensuring development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments. Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior level Scrum Masters on agile best practices. Accountable for guiding the team in organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and release planning. As well as ensuring all scrum events are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox. Ensure user stories are discussed and decomposed to a consumable level that is understood by the development team. Facilitate collaboration for both onsite and offshore teams, resolve conflict and reduce external dependencies.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems, Business Management or related field preferred 3-5 Years proven Scrum Master Experience. Knowledgeable in the best practices associated with Scrum and Kanban. Detail oriented, organized, self-motivated, collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal skills. Excellent verbal, written and facilitation skills. Proven ability to work creatively, with an analytical mindset in a fast-paced environment. Demonstrable experience and understanding of Agile adoption. Passion for evolving and sustaining Agile best practices and quality solution delivery.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow and MS Office application experience preferred Credible understanding of current technologies and domains (web, portal, low code, information security, automation, etc.). Demonstrable experience and understanding of Change Management.
HOW TO APPLY: Any candidate offered a position with National Fuel will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug test. For confidential consideration, please submit your resume and cover letter (preferably in PDF format) by October 1, 2024 to jobs@natfuel.com.
Please reference position #24-050NY in the subject line of your email.