Scrum Master

Job Description
- At Alfa Laval, we always go that extra mile to overcome the toughest challenges. Our driving force is to accelerate success for our customers, people, and planet. You can only achieve that by having dedicated people with a curious mind. Curiosity is the spark behind great ideas. And great ideas drive progress.

As a member of our team, you thrive in a truly diverse workplace based on empowerment. You are here to make a difference. Constantly building bridges to the future with sustainable solutions that have an impact on our planet’s most urgent problems. Making the world a better place. Every day.

Who you are?

As a person you are a curious team player with an interest in brainstorming, gathering, and sharing ideas & data to break new ground. In addition to this you are self-motivated, an excellent problem solver, and a fast learner. You are quick to forge relationships and are comfortable with change and ambiguity.

About the job

With this position you will become a Scrum Master in one or more teams in our Core Automation within the global Automation Development team, which is responsible for creating control systems for our internal customers (Business Units).

The focus of the position will be to ensure Agile is understood and the team(s) adheres to relevant values, principles, methods, and practices. Therefore, as a Scrum Master you will serve:
The Scrum team:

- Coaching the team members in self-management and cross-functionality;
- Helping the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done;
- Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress;
- Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.
- Define, together with your Scrum Team, the metrics that will provide data to be used in the Retrospective meetings to find areas of improvement and define action plans that will ensure such improvements are effectively implemented.
- Find effective ways for keeping full transparency of the Scrum Team’s ways of working, processes, challenges and levels of effectiveness and efficiency.
- Expecting and being a strong promoter of the same level of transparency from the rest of the organization.
- Promoting and support the implementation of a culture based on value delivering and continuous feedback
- Promoting frequent Scrum Team celebration of victories and opportunities that led to establish continuous learning and improving

The Product Owner
- Actively coaching, teaching, and mentoring Product Owners to become the best version of themselves and to provide a new and fresh perspectives on how they can use their vast traditional Project/Program management experience in an Agile organization
- Actively coaching, teaching, and mentoring Product Owners and other leaders on achieving a collective Agile Mindset and to become true and effective Servant Leaders.
- Helping find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management;
- Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items;
- Helping establish empirical product planning for a complex environment; and,
- Facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed.

The organization, together with the rest of Scrum Masters in Automation Development:

- Leading, training, and coaching the closest organization to your team(s), in its Scrum adoption;
- Supporting Scrum implementations within the organization;
- Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work;
- Removing barriers between stakeholders and your Scrum Team(s).
- Support, promote, coach, mentor and teach people in your closest organization, to understand the benefits and adopt an Agile Mindset and behaviour.
- Be an active member of AD’s Scrum Master Community.
- Promoting and supporting the implementation of continuous learning organization.

What is needed to succeed
- 4+ years of experience particularly as a scrum master, with proven capabilities in Lean-Agile leadership, behaviours, and mindset
- In-depth Knowledge of Agile frameworks and methods (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), ideally, including effective scaled Agile frameworks and ways of working
- Great team coaching skills, you can educate and guide the Scrum Team(s).
- Ability to develop relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Has experience working with Agile metrics and continuous feedback to measure effectiveness and efficiency of the Scrum Team(s) within a Product and Project environment
- Has working and basic configuration experience with Azure DevOps
- Experienced in working with remote teams
- Good understanding of software development life cycle models as well as knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices.
- Can effectively facilitate difficult discussions within teams and with diverse senior stakeholders
- Highly motivated and self-starting with a personal drive for conti