It Jobs in Eugene, OR

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Plan and execute all activities related to program increment planning. - Work with Service Delivery Managers and Product Managers to ensure strategy and execution alignment. - Assist Service Director with managing risks, escalating, and tracking impediments. - Work with Scrum Masters to define and drive consistent practices across the Site Reliability Engineering teams. - Define the program dashboards to manage and report the status on product implementations. - Assist Service Delivery Managers with tracking the execution of features and capabilities. - Coaches, reviews, and delegates work to lower-level professionals. Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Plan and execute all activities related to program increment planning. - Work with Service Delivery Managers and Product Managers to ensure strategy and execution alignment. - Assist Service Director with managing risks, escalating, and tracking impediments. - Work with Scrum Masters to define and drive consistent practices across the Site. - Reliability Engineering teams. - Define the program dashboards to manage and report the status on project implementations. - Assist Service Delivery Managers with tracking the execution of features and capabilities. - Coaches, reviews, and delegates work to lower-level professionals. - Facilitate scrum activities and meetings (daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives) between the Scrum Team and Product Owner(s). - Lead one or more agile development efforts within the organization. - Document areas of improvement and action items coming out of the sprint retrospectives. - Work with Product Owner(s) to keep the backlog(s) groomed. - Maintain and report on relevant sprint metrics. - Administer and maintain the accuracy of the scrum board. - Ensure quality standards for all deliverables and promote continuous process improvement. - Act as a liaison between Development Teams and Product Management, ensuring that appropriate project process is made. - Identify and resolve obstacles that may hinder the team from meeting project milestones/deadlines. - May provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area. - Prepares for and facilitates release planning with teams. - Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination. Agile Ceremony Facilitation - Facilitates continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams. - Facilitates ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management. - Teaches new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process. - Influences the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices. - Mentors Product Owners and team members in agile practices and continuous improvement. Delivery Team Support - Removes impediments to the team's ability to perform. - Acts as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions. - Assists in the coordination of operational issue resolution. - Facilitates team development, mediates conflicts protecting the team and encourages healthy team dynamics. - Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization. - Leverages coaching skills to help the team learn to solve its own problems. Advice and Guidance - Introduces and encourages team to explore healthy Agile development practices, focus on quality and technical excellence, predictable delivery, automation, and continuous delivery. - Teaches and encourages a balanced backlog that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability. - Helps the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements. - Promotes transparency through healthy communications and data integrity. Minimum Requirements - Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 7+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Job-Specific Minimum Requirements: - Bachelor's degree or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education. - 7+ years of working experience as a dedicated Scrum Master, RTE, or PM - Scrum Master certification or equivalent certified professional. - Working experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum or Kanban. - Working experience with Agile scaling frameworks, preferably SAFe. #LI-remote #techjobs #veteranspage EEO Statement Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. Pay Transparency Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances. Accommodations Maximus provides reasonable accommodations to individuals requiring assistance during any phase of the employment process due to a disability, medical condition, or physical or mental impairment. If you require assistance at any stage of the employment process-including accessing job postings, completing assessments, or participating in interviews,-please contact People Operations at applicantaccom@maximus.com. Minimum Salary $ 105,040.00 Maximum Salary $ 157,560.00 *