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Senior SCRUM Master

August 9, 2023


The Senior Scrum Master will support and help facilitate flow throughout the lifecycle of the team’s sprint. The scrum master will coordinate between the various stakeholders to ensure that the scrum team is working on tasks and items that bring the most value to the business.

The Senior Scrum Master will carry out the duties while ensuring that they drive value, standardization, cost effectiveness and supportability of the the business unit's offering across Swisslog WDS Americas for all its customers by creating a world-class software and controls organization with value generating products and services.

Short Facts

  • Newport News, VA
    Newport News, VA, United States of America
  • Software Development
    Software Development
  • Permanent Position
    Permanent Position

Make an impact


  • Facilitate the team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team.
  • Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology.
  • Responsible to remove the impediments for the scrum team.
  • Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
  • Helps solution architects/product owner groom the backlog and ensure they are in good form and make them ready for the next sprint.
  • Responsible to conduct retrospective meetings.
  • Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting.
  • Acts as safeguard for the team.

Bring to the team

  • Formal qualification in engineering and/or computer science or years experience in project management, scrum SDLC
  • Scrum Master training / certification
  • Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
  • Good skills to coach team how to follow agile scrum.
  • Understand the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
  • Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices.
  • Knowledge about other methodologies other than Agile-Scrum, to be able to explain other methodologies to motivate the team.
  • Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand the team needs.
  • Knowledge about Agile techniques: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
  • Ability to take and understand the commitment to deliver the project / product on time.
  • Know about the value of metrics and incremental delivery.
  • Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.
  • Familiar with common development practices, Service oriented environments, CI/CD concepts.

Our promise

Swisslog provides you with the possibility to grow while working with us to deliver a game changing mission: to shape the future of intralogistics by introducing an era of robotic and data-driven automated solutions that create exceptional customer value. We are proud of our Swiss roots, while the opportunities we offer stretch across the globe. We don't expect perfection, but we do expect Collaboration, Commitment, Clarity, and Competence (our Core Values) from all our colleagues. In return, we offer you the chance to be part of the driving force behind solutions that are shaping the future, while we develop the leaders that will shape ours.

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Flexible Working Options
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Global Opportunities

About Swisslog

Swisslog is shaping the #future of #intralogistics. As part of the KUKA Group, we are at the forefront of technology that is changing the world. Serving some of the biggest and most exciting brands across the globe, we're a team of 2,000 professionals and 50 nationalities, working together to transform intralogistics with smart minds and fresh perspectives. With our flexible, #robotic and #data-driven automated solutions, we are powering the supply chain and taking the industry forward. #JoinOurTeam and bring ideas to life!

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  • Must be US Citizen or Permanent Resident

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