Scrum Master III

Discovery is at the heart of everything we do. Wherever you find us around the world, if you can think of a product, you can probably find it in our stores, which include TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra, Winners, Homesense, and TK Maxx. With variety comes plenty of happy surprises - our environment is ever-changing, and that’s just how we like it. Every day is an opportunity to discover something new about our business, our partnerships and even something exciting about yourself. Ready to Discover Different?

Duties and Responsibilities:

• As a true servant leader, the Scrum Master is primarily responsible for ensuring that the Agile/Scrum team achieves its goals.
• Supports and enforces the rules of the scrum process and other rules that the team has agreed upon. e.g. WIP limits
• Communicates status to customers, team and management as needed.
• Exhibits the behaviours of a Lean-Agile leader with a Lean-Agile mindset. Helps the team embrace core Agile values and principles.
• Leads scrum teams for medium to complex deliveries.
• Leads the team’s efforts in relentless improvement and facilitates the team’s retrospective.
• Facilitates all the team’s meetings and ceremonies such as Daily Standups, Sprint Retrospectives etc.
• Removes roadblocks, many of which will be beyond the team’s authority or will require support from other teams.
• Coordinates with various teams such as Infrastructure & Operations, Security, Landscape Services, Product teams to resolve dependencies, blockers.
• Ensures that goals and scope are understood by everyone on the Agile/Scrum Team.
• Ensures the Team understands scrum theory, practices, rules and values.
• Improves team performance by identifying, managing, and supporting resolution of team impediments.
• Displays an engineering mindset and systems thinking while understanding the economic view.
• Embraces a continuous improvement mind-set and highlights opportunities to improve efficiency of scrum teams.
• Leads and facilitates deployment of changes to Production by adhering to TJX processes.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Experienced and adept user of Agile Lifecycle Management tools, particularly JIRA and Confluence
• Communicative and social -- excellent interpersonal and group facilitation skills including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and personality types.
• Assertive -- must be able to ensure agile and scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, and not afraid to be a voice of reason and authority.
• Willing to able to hold the team accountable to its vision and values.
• Situationally Aware -- must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to team and to management, where appropriate.
• Attitude of transparency -- must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the Product Owner about the team and grow business trust.
• Creativity, initiative, and flexibility – tempered by pragmatism, patience and attention to detail.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Business Administration, engineering, Information Technology, or liberal arts.
• 7+ years as a Scrum Master/project manager/program manager with dedicated agile teams using scrum/SAFe.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PMI-ACP, SAFe SM preferred.
• Preferred ability to grasp technical concepts around data Integrations

Come Discover Different at TJX. From opportunity and teamwork to growth, we think you’ll find that it’s so much more than a job. When you’re a part of our global TJX family, you have the full support of a diverse, close-knit group of people dedicated to finding great deals and fantastic style. Best of all? They have a lot of fun doing it.

We care about our culture, but we also prioritize the tangible stuff (Competitive salaries: check. Solid benefits: check. Plenty of room for advancement: of course). It’s our way of empowering you to make your career here.