Senior Scrum Master

At adidas, our love for sport drives who we are and what we do. But just as a ball is more than leather and thread, and a show more than padding and plastic, we are bigger than our products. We don't just work to create faster shoes and lighter fabrics. We strive to help athletes everywhere perform their best. We believe that it's hard work inventing the future of sport, and that's why we love it; that when you push your limits, you make it possible for others to push theirs._
- We believe that through Sport, we have the power to change lives._
- To change lives, we have to create direct relationships with consumers and the best way to accelerate building direct relationships is through Digital._

Senior Scrum Master

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
As the Senior Scrum Master, you will train, facilitate, and coordinate teams on the agile mindset and agile/lean frameworks and methods, including Scrum and Kanban. Drive and foster collaboration and transparency between Product Owner, development teams and management to support high performance. Support the Product Owner to maintain product backlog, release plan and support increased productivity by facilitating meetings and removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the team's sprint goals. Preserve flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes.

The Scrum Master will, with the Delivery Leads, guide, and coach the organization on Agile delivery and scrum practices by evangelizing standards and best practices for adidas.

What we are looking for:

- Strong team facilitation skills
- Strong interpersonal skills including conflict resolution skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with all levels of the organization
- Ability to explain and defend a viewpoint and persuade others to a defined position
- Ability to prioritize work objectives and goals
- Experienced in coordinating the work of multiple scrum teams
- Coaching and mentoring skills; focus on empathy and engagement
- Experienced in large scale transformations/change initiatives
- Deep understanding of all major agile frameworks

Key Responsibilities:

- Act as a servant leader model.
- Identify dysfunctions within the team and help resolve the same either by the team or by bringing it to the notification of leadership at the right time.
- Facilitates agile / team meetings, e.g. sprint kick-off, DSM, retrospective.
- Actively works with engineers and the Product Owner to negotiate and split work into smaller chunks
- Maintains situational awareness of ongoing and scheduled work
- Removes roadblocks, allowing the team to move forward
- Owns the team velocity measures and release forecasting
- Works with the Product Owner to continuously refine scheduling and estimation for the product roadmap and backlog
- Able to conduct a training or workshop on related topics (e.g. how to write good user stories, how to write acceptance criteria)
- Provides clear metrics (flow framework, velocity, burn-down, etc.) for both internal (scrum team) and external stakeholders
- Actively works to improve team performance with metrics and continuous process improvement based on team retrospectives
- Support the Delivery Lead with inter-team dependencies and communicate timely readiness well in advance.
- Consult teams on good practices to become more data driven
- Identify dysfunctions within the team and help resolve the same either by the team or by bringing it to the notification of leadership at the right time.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

- Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Proficient spoken and written command of English
- At least 7 years’ experience in IT
- 5 years of experience in relevant area as dedicated Scrum Master or Agile Coach.
- SCRUM MASTER CERTIFICATE (nice to have)
- Proficiency in Jira, Confluence and Microsoft Teams
- Experience with Agile methodologies and scaling frameworks (LESS, SAFe, etc. - nice to have)

What we offer:

- Open environment to learn new technologies
- Hybrid Work Setup: enjoy the advantages of a flexible remote work environment (within Spain) combined with the amazing onsite facilities and culture (minimum 5 days per month on site)
- You will be part of a highly engaged, multinational with international career opportunities
- Individual development, training and a tech community
- Sport friendly environment, great work-life balance and flexibility
- Competitive salary, benefits and valuable discounts on adidas products
- To be the best sports company in the world, you need the best talents within your teams._

AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE‘S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT AR