Scrum Master - Engineering - Santa Barbara

Arthrex, Inc. is a global medical device company leader in new product development and medical education in orthopedics. We are actively seeking a Scrum Master to work with our Engineering teams at our Santa Barbara office. The mission of the role is to focus Engineering Development teams on the highest priority work, as identified by Product Management, and to enact efficiency to rapidly provide Arthrex with the most valuable output for the investment in Engineering resources. Ideally, the successful candidate will need two years of Scrum Master experience along with a Bachelor’s degree, strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills. This position will be onsite in Santa Barbara, CA location. Join our talented team at a global medical device company focused on Helping Surgeons Treat Their Patients Better™.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Agile Scrum Ceremonies including Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Demonstrations, Daily Stand Up Meetings, and Retrospectives. Ensure team members are rapidly unblocked when progress has been halted.
• Stand up new, highly effective Agile engineering teams. Guiding them through the Forming/Storming/Norming to Performing stage of team formation. Facilitate Team Process Agreement workshops and Team Building Activities.
• Provide full transparency of the status of work to the broader organization via Scrum Boards, Demonstrations, and Burn Down charts.
• Track and interpret metrics to facilitate effective process improvement.
• Analyze Cumulative Flow Diagrams to identify and alleviate bottlenecks and to ensure that sufficient defined work is fed to the team to enable maximum throughput.
• Lead Software Release Planning. Assist Product Managers with documenting prioritization of features. Facilitate requirements sessions between Product Management and Service to ensure that the stakeholder needs of the Service department are met. Lead team estimation exercises to estimate the level of effort and technical risk of requested features and communicate those results to Product Management for their decision making with regard to the scope of the release. Maintain release content records.
• Leads Division/Organization Charting Sessions, building a common ethos and mission.
• Stay abreast of new developments and best practices within the field and engage teams with adopting new techniques and practices.

Education/Experience:

• 2 years of Scrum Master experience or equivalent Agile software development technical experience.
• Bachelor’s degree required. Agile certification preferred.

Skills:

• Ability to effectively facilitate scrum ceremonies for experienced Agile teams
• Developing ability to improve the focus and efficiency of meetings through knowing when to table discussion, how to refocus the discussion to meeting objectives, how to turn suggestions into assigned action items.
• Ability to lead one or more teams in a servant leadership capacity, with adept understanding of the servant leadership approach.
• Strong strategic thinker, excellent collaboration and communication skills, careful attention to detail
• Demonstrable bias for action
• Strong desire and proven ability to learn quickly
• Developing knowledge of the software development lifecycle and regulatory compliance activities embedded into the Arthrex software SDLC for software as a medical device.
• In depth understanding of one software product, its use cases, its client base, and its product roadmap and a general understanding of other software products created and maintained by the organization.
• Developing understanding of the technical architecture of products supported. 
• Ability to assist with team formation and team process agreement workshops.
• Working understanding of Agile metrics and how to interpret them.
• Assists with Release Planning.

Knowledge:

Limited use and/or application of basic principles, theories, and concepts.  Limited knowledge of industry practices and standards.

Reasoning Ability:

Solves routine problems of limited scope and complexity following established policies and procedures.

Discretion / Latitude:

Work is closely supervised.  Follows specific, detailed instructions. 

Arthrex 2024 Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Company-Provided Life Insurance
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Supplemental Insurance Plans (Accident, Cancer, Hospital, Critical Illness)
• Matching 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Annual Bonus
• Wellness Incentive Program
• Free Onsite Lunch
• Gym Reimbursement Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Trip of a Lifetime
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Sick Leave
• Volunteer PTO
• Employee Assistance Provider (EAP)

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.