Senior Scrum Master job Vacancy PPL Corporation|USA Jobs 2023

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Senior Scrum Master job Vacancy PPL Corporation USA

senior scrum master job vacancy ppl corporation usa
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Job highlights


Qualifications


• Bachelor’s degree, and 5 years of related work experience OR 8 years of related work experience
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Agile Scrum Master (ASM)
• Strong track record of on-time, on-budget, and to-specification delivery of projects
• Ability to effectively execute an agile project
• ability to manage relationships with internal business
• Proven experience leading and coaching teams in a complex or highly regulated environment

Responsibilities


•The Senior (P3) Scrum Master is accountable for all aspects of a diverse, very complex information technology project or multiple large-scale IT projects


• Serves as a coach, mentor, and facilitator of Agile practices ensuring fast product development through transparency, inspection, and adaptation


•Provides project management coordination, support, and assistance in all aspects of IT product development

•Agile Coach/Senior Scrum Master


• Coach, mentor, and facilitate the team members adoption of an Agile mindset, including ownership, self-management and empowerment


• Manage and facilitate the scrum team’s daily work including execution of Sprint Ceremonies (e.g., Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Retrospective)


• Capturing and tracking sprint metrics (e.g., team velocity), and being accountable for the continuous improvement of the scrum team


• Create a collaborative environment which allows the team and stakeholders to interact


• Identifying and removing impediments to allow the team to focus on
• Help the team identify its strengths and

• Motivating and acting as the glue that holds the team together


•Act as a Coach/Mentor to other teams and more junior Scrum Masters in the same portfolio


• Help craft and maintain portfolio level reporting, leading a collaboration of other Scrum Masters and Project Managers


• Lead or facilitate Scrum of Scrums (SoS), Scrum Master Community of Practice (SM CoP), and similar forums for developing and peer coaching best practices
• Act as a power user of product development technology such as Azure DevOps or Jira, and coach more junior Scrum Masters on the optimal use of tools
• Apply working knowledge of waterfall/traditional project management practices to integrate waterfall teams and vendors into the Agile portfolio, and encourage their steady transition into adopting Agile practices
•
Help coordinate vender and system integrator portions of implementation,
•
Over time, develop deep functional knowledge of their teams’ domain areas, including role appropriate understanding of the business, technical, and regulatory operating environment
•
Perform Team and Portfolio level Delivery and Release Planning, and capacity and velocity projections
•
Identifies, monitors, and coordinates interdependencies across multiple products/projects
•
Oversee the design, development, and implementation of work plans to determine the required tasks and •
Create schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status
•
Support the portfolio management decision process through the creation of project charters, scope documents, risk assessments, and budgets (including both capital, expense, and O&M tails for projects)
•
Delivery and Monitoring:
•
Lead medium to large scale IT projects for a business unit within time, budget, and specification
•
Provides strategic direction of critical path milestones within project plans
•
Monitors and communicate status to Communicate and incorporate feedback from customers
•
Risk Identification, Action Planning, and Analysis:
•
Conduct business impact analysis both inside and outside the company and review findings with management of the critical business
•
Develop, implement, and administer standards and procedures for recovery planning, security planning and
•
Ensure the effectiveness of recovery and backup
•
May be assigned an Electric Utilities emergency and storm role
•
This is a special assignment that comes into play during storms and other emergencies when the company needs to restore power or respond to other issues affecting customer service
•
This role may necessitate the need to work after-hours, outside of your normal schedule

Job description
Company Summary Statement
As one of the largest investor-owned utility companies in the United States, PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), is committed to creating long-term, sustainable value for our 3.5 million customers, our shareowners and the communities we serve. Our high-performing regulated utilities — PPL Electric Utilities, Louisville Gas and Electric, Kentucky Utilities and Rhode Island Energy — provide an outstanding experience for our customers, consistently ranking among the best utilities in the nation. PPL’s companies are also addressing challenges head-on by investing in new infrastructure and technology that is creating a smarter, more reliable and resilient energy grid. We are committed to doing our part to advance a cleaner energy future and drive innovation that enables us to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while maintaining energy reliability and affordability for the customers and communities we serve. PPL is a positive force in the cities and towns where we do business, providing support for programs and organizations that empower the success of future generations by helping to build and maintain strong, diverse communities today.
Overview

Job Summary

The Senior (P3) Scrum Master is accountable for all aspects of a diverse, very complex information technology project or multiple large-scale IT projects. Serves as a coach, mentor, and facilitator of Agile practices ensuring fast product development through transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Provides project management coordination, support, and assistance in all aspects of IT product development.

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities


• Agile Coach/Senior Scrum Master
• Coach, mentor, and facilitate the team members adoption of an Agile mindset, including ownership, self-management and empowerment.
• Manage and facilitate the scrum team’s daily work including execution of Sprint Ceremonies (e.g., Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Retrospective)
• Capturing and tracking sprint metrics (e.g., team velocity), and being accountable for the continuous improvement of the scrum team
• Create a collaborative environment which allows the team and stakeholders to interact
• Identifying and removing impediments to allow the team to focus on
• Help the team identify its strengths and
• Motivating and acting as the glue that holds the team together.
• Act as a Coach/Mentor to other teams and more junior Scrum Masters in the same portfolio
• Help craft and maintain portfolio level reporting, leading a collaboration of other Scrum Masters and Project Managers.
• Lead or facilitate Scrum of Scrums (SoS), Scrum Master Community of Practice (SM CoP), and similar forums for developing and peer coaching best practices.
• Act as power user of product development technology such as Azure DevOps or Jira, and coach more junior Scrum Masters on optimal use of tools.
• Apply working knowledge of waterfall/traditional project management practices to integrate waterfall teams and venders into the Agile portfolio, and encourage their steady transition into adopting Agile practices
• Help coordinate vender and system integrator portions of inplementations,
• Over time, develop deep functional knowledge of their teams’ domain areas, including role appropriate understanding of the business, technical, and regulatory operating environment.
• Perform Team and Portfolio level Delivery and Release Planning, and capacity and velocity projections.
• Identifies, monitors, and coordinates interdependencies across multiple products/projects.
• Oversee the design, development, and implementation of work plans to determine the required tasks and
• Create schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status
• Support the portfolio management decision process through the creation of project charters, scope documents, risk assessments, and budgets (including both capital, expense, and O&M tails for projects)
• Delivery and Monitoring:
• Lead medium to large scale IT projects for a business unit within time, budget, and specification
• Provides strategic direction of critical path milestones within project plans.
• Monitors and communicate status to Communicate and incorporate feedback from customers.
• Risk Identification, Action Planning, and Analysis:
• Conduct business impact analysis both inside and outside the company and review findings with management of the critical business
• Develop, implement, and administer standards and procedures for recovery planning, security planning and
• Ensure the effectiveness of recovery and backup
• May be assigned an Electric Utilities emergency and storm role. This is a special assignment that comes into play during storms and other emergencies when the company needs to restore power or respond to other issues affecting customer service. This role may necessitate the need to work after-hours, outside of your normal schedule.
Qualifications

Basic Qualifications for Senior Scrum Master job Vacancy PPL Corporation


• Bachelor’s degree, and 5 years of related work experience OR 8 years of related work experience
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Agile Scrum Master (ASM)
• Strong track record of on-time, on-budget, and to-specification delivery of projects
• Ability to effectively execute an agile project.
• Ability to manage relationships with internal business
• Proven experience leading and coaching teams in a complex or highly regulated environment

Preferred Qualifications


• PMP
• 1 year+ experience working as, or closely with, traditional project management.
• Experience leading teams through transition from traditional project management into Agile

Apply directly in PPL Website

https://careers-pplweb.icims.com/

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