Scrum Master: Core API Platforms_

Indianapolis

**Job Number** 24104918

**Job Category** Information Technology

**Location** Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland, United States

**Schedule** Full-Time

**Located Remotely?** Y

**Relocation?** N

**Position Type** Management

**JOB SUMMARY**

Do you consider yourself to be extraordinary? Do you want to work with the best and push yourself to be the best at what you do? If so, there is an opening on the GraphQL API platform team that might be perfect for you. Together we will help change the way the world looks at travel enabling a laundry list of new features and functionality for our guests and associates.

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering projects on time and within budget, while meeting Marriott’s world-class expectations. Your daily activities will include coordinating tasks and unblocking barriers related to technology projects at an enterprise level, ensuring seamless progress and timely completion. You will manage development sprints from planning to execution to review in an agile development environment, running daily scrums, collaborating on requirement documentation, and keeping the team moving forward.

You will engage with key stakeholders, including executives, clients, and partners, to provide regular updates, gather feedback, and ensure alignment with project objectives. Additionally, you will coach and collaborate with cross-functional teams, Product Owners, and other Scrum Masters to foster decision-making and continuous improvement.

This dynamic and challenging role is perfect for individuals who thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy working within a collaborative team that grows forward together. If you are up for the challenge, we encourage you to apply.

**CANDIDATE PROFILE**

**Education and Experience**

Required:

+ Undergraduate degree, equivalent experience, or certification.

+ 7+ years’ experience in applying Agile and Scrum principles within teams and/or organizations and using agile metrics to analyze and improve sprint planning.

+ 7+ years planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

+ 7+ years experience working within agile framework or method (i.e. SAFe, Scrum, Kanban) and applying techniques such as story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection etc.

+ 5+ years creating and delivering presentations, PowerPoint decks, and project plans.

+ 2+ years working with tools such as Atlassian (JIRA/Confluence), Clarity and/or Cloud-based platforms (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud)

Preferred:

+ Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or PMI’s Agile Certified Professional (ACP)

+ SAFe certified – SAFe Agilist or SAFe Scrum Master

+ Servant leadership experience as Scrum Master on an Agile Release Train

+ Familiarity with product/project development experience on an Agile Teams in a technology-focused organization

+ Ability to align change management strategies with product development/deployments.

+ Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques.

+ Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology.

+ Thrives in a highly collaborative, matrixed, complex, fast paced environment.

**CORE WORK ACTIVITIES**

**Leading Organizational Delivery**

+ Supports one or more software delivery team using Scrum or Kanban methodologies.

+ Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Refinement, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective

+ Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines

+ Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization

+ Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role

+ Acts as servant leader of the Agile Team and directs the initiative delivery team

+ Partner with Product Managers to maintain plans and communicate progress of the team. This includes product roadmaps, scrum team metrics, and program/project status reporting

+ Proactively identifies impediments and resolves using network of peers or escalation if needed

+ Supports Release Train Engineer, Product and Tech teams to manage & remove dependencies and optimize the flow

**Coaching Teams**

+ Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Lean and Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers

+ Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization

+ Works with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests

+ Optimizes team performance by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques

+ Develops understanding and encourages team in engineering practices, DevOps and innovation

+ Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams

+ Support the development of behavioural change management, communications and training as needed to drive process and tool adoption, implementation, and compliance

+ Collaborate with key stakeholder groups to validate the effectiveness of standard processes and continuously improves process quality.

+ Work with Marriott teams to ensure that process-related activities address company needs

**Skills, Knowledge & Abilities**

+ Highly motivated person that is passionate about collaborating with others to drive results and can motivate others to do the same to improve the organization

+ Possesses a team-first mentality, has a good sense of humour, is open-minded and proactive

+ Sound technical experience with infrastructure that can understand and translate business requests into consumable stories and vice versa

+ Excellent oral and written communication skills with a high attention to detail and impeccable time management skills

+ Ability to self-manage, recognize and actively address challenges, mediate issues, develop solutions, and implement appropriate courses of action

+ Highly proficient with MS Office, Jira and Confluence (or equivalent tools)

+ Ability to expertly read, write and speak in the English language

**California Applicants Only:** The salary range for this position is $96,038 to $209,169 annually.

**Colorado Applicants Only:** The salary range for this position is $96,038 to $190,154 annually.

**Hawaii Applicants Only:** The salary range for this position is $116,205 to $209,169 annually.

**New York Applicants Only:** The salary range for this position is $96,038 to $209,169 annually.

**Washington Applicants Only:** The salary range for this position is $96,038 to $209,169 annually. In addition to the annual salary, the position will be eligible to receive an annual bonus. Employees will accrue 0.04616 PTO balance for every hour worked and eligible to receive minimum of 7 holidays annually.

All locations offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, paid parental leave, educational assistance, 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare discounts. Benefits are subject to terms and conditions, which may include rules regarding eligibility, enrollment, waiting period, contribution, benefit limits, election changes, benefit exclusions, and others.

Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment that enables associates to Be connected. Headquarters-based positions are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda, MD; candidates outside of commuting distance to Bethesda, MD will be considered for Remote positions.

The application deadline for this position is 28 days after the date of this posting, June 19, 2024.

_Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law._

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