Lead Scrum Master

Job Overview

Job Description:

Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. Our Consumer Technology experience team is delivering innovative and reliable technology solutions to power differentiated, simplified customer experiences. Bring your bold ideas and fearless risk-taking to redefine connectivity and transform how the world shares stories and experiences that matter. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future-you’ll create it.

As a Lead Scrum Master, you will Lead Scrum teams using an agile scrum development methodology to manage architecture and software development activities related to one of the most important aspects of AT&T: Systems Reliability. As a member of Enterprise Architecture and System Enablement (EASE), you will be leading teams and programs which support various organizational objectives such as implementing technical and process improvement plans for Mission-Critical applications, supporting Enterprise Architecture standardization and governance, driving adoption and deployment of observability and monitoring tools, increasing Cloud efficiency and ROI, and prioritizing technology investment opportunities.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Guiding a scrum team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and how to get the most out of self-organization.

• Assesses the maturity of the scrum team, providing support and coaching their team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable to the team.

• Removes impediments and/or guides the team on how to remove impediments.

• Facilitates and leads Agile ceremonies (Daily Standup, Demonstration, Story Point Estimation, Retrospective, Iteration Planning, Backlog Grooming) and fosters continuous improvement.

• Collaborates with team members, but does not act as a manager, lead developer, Project Manager, or Product Owner.

• Remove impediments to a team’s productivity by shielding them from outside influences.

• Empower teams and facilitate creativity while guarding quality and monitoring iteration progress while striving for successful completion.

• Represent the team to management. Disseminate information to the team, including metrics and charts.

• Work with other Scrum Masters to ensure organizational process improvement.

• Builds and maintains a trusting and safe environment where problems and issues can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged.

• Protects the team from external distractions, allowing the team to focus on the work to which they have committed.

Required Experience:

• 5 - 8 years’ experience; Technical Career Pathway (TCP) role

Desired Qualifications:

• Agile and SAFe methodology

• PowerBI experience

• Strong communication and listening skills

• Problem solving, troubleshooting

• Conflict resolution

• Risk management

• Process improvement

• Project Management

• Experience with AT&T technology and business organizations, applications, and tools

Desired Education and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in any Business, Technical, Engineering, Information Systems or related fields; or equivalent experience preferred.

• SAFe Agile certification

Our Lead Scrum Master earns between $128,400 - $215,800 annually.  Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

• 401(k) plan

• Tuition reimbursement program

• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Caregiver Leave

• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected.

• Adoption Reimbursement

• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)

• Life and Accidental Death Insurance

• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal

• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)

• Extensive employee wellness programs

• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone.

AT&T is leading the way to the future – for customers, businesses, and the industry. We're developing new technologies to make it easier for our customers to stay connected to their world. Together, we’ve built a premier integrated communications and entertainment company and an amazing place to work and grow. Team up with industry innovators every time you walk into work, creating the world you always imagined.

Ready to #transformdigital with us?   Apply now!

Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

Atlanta, Georgia

Salary Range:

$128,400.00 - $215,800.00

It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Job ID R-24669-2Date posted 05/31/2024