Senior Scrum Master

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Cox Automotive is hiring a Sr. Scrum Master to join our successful Inventory Management Solutions (IMS) team in Austin, TX. 

Learn more about us 

• We Are Cox Automotive
• The Connected Cox Automotive Story
• Transforming the Auto Industry
• Cox Conserves
• From the SVP of Product & Engineering

Who We Are + What We Do 

At Cox Automotive, we offer the chance to take an important role in the digital revolution of the automotive industry. Our software engineers are part of an energetic team that builds world-class solutions to benefit the auto buying public, dealers, and manufacturers. At Cox Automotive, youll be immersed in an environment that values your teamwork and creative problem-solving techniques while encouraging you to continue to learn new skills and technologies. Risk-taking is encouraged here and we reward great results. Collaboration and support are woven into the fabric of everything we do; from 24-hour Hackathons and brain-storming sessions to sprint reviews, youll be immersed in an environment that encourages bringing fresh ideas to the table with an innovative mindset. 

Giving back to the community is important at Cox Automotive. You will be given time during working hours to volunteer at local charities. 

IMS Vison

The IMS product teams help dealers reach true and sustained profitability in their used and new vehicle retail and wholesale business by means of market-driven insights and investment centric inventory management software  

Initiatives/products that drive our vision are as follows:

• Inventory Management Software: Software that enables the end-end process from sourcing to selling a dealers vehicle inventory  
• Market Data: A comprehensive and accurate compilation of the used vehicle market information  
• Insights: Actionable insights that help drive dealer profitability  

As a Senior Scrum Master, you will take ownership of developing scrum teams that deliver exceptional results to achieve business outcomes, irrespective of the challenges the team may encounter. Your team will use an inspect and adapt cycle to continuously improve the delivery of valuable, working software, and they will take complete responsibility for failures without looking for excuses. This team will have a laser focus on the creation of valuable, working software and will utilize a collaborative process that minimizes defects, rework, and time spent on work that will never contribute to delivering value to clients. The team will use sufficient and effective communication to create a shared consciousness of current the state, desired state, and a shared understanding of quality, value, and time to market goals. This team will set and consistently achieve sprint goals and all members of the team will experience work as both sustainable and challenging.

Your Role:

• Facilitate the pragmatic use of Agile ceremonies that consistently produce the benefits intended by the agile framework and enable the organization to deliver products incrementally using inspect and adapt cycles.
• Drive high performance and collaboration in teams that themselves accountable and interact constructively within the team and outside of the team with all members of the organization.
• Own the use of an accurate, complete, readable, single source for artifacts and workflow information that the organization needs in order to engage in continuous planning, observe/monitor work in progress, and quantify the inspect and adapt cycle at the scrum team level.
• Coach the team on writing user stories that ultimately enable scrum team focus and prioritization.
• Facilitate the identification of delivery focused solutions to address true root cause of issues.
• Own full alignment across dependent teams within a release train; manage risks and dependencies such that all parties are aligned with delivery strategy and sequence. Drive over-communication as necessary to ensure a shared understanding of dependencies.
• Proactively identify, manage and communicate impediments to expedite resolution.
• Drive scrum team accountability for ensuring the sprint commitment is less than / very close to the average velocity over the last five sprints, maximizing the likelihood of delivery on sprint commitments.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of direct experience in the scrum master role, during which time you successfully drove continuously improved team performance with software development teams using Scrum or Kanban
• 5+ years of direct experience in the scrum master role working with teams using Agile Engineering practices (Automated Testing, TDD, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment, BDD, Pairing, Mobbing, etc.)
• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science or Psychology (with work experience in IT organizations) or equivalent work experience.
• Mastery of the SDLC, demonstrated by expertise in the various phases of work associated with software development
• Mastery of the Agile framework demonstrated by expertise on how to achieve the positive outcomes associated with Agile.
• Advanced skills in writing queries and ability to interpret data (strong Excel or Tableau skills are a plus)
• Demonstrated success resolving inter-team / intra-team conflict and building relationships in a complex team environment
• Mastery of industry-standard information radiators (preferably Rally; but experience with JIRA, TFS, or another standard radiator will be considered)

Who We Are

About Cox Automotive

Theres nothing ordinary about Cox Automotive. We are people of every background driven by our passion for mobility, innovation, client success and community outreach. We make buying, selling and owning (or simply using) cars easier for everyone. Touching more than 40,000 clients across five continents, we bring together the best brands and the best teams to propel the automotive industry forward. Some of those team members work for our iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, while others are creating the future of automotive at industry-facing brands like Dealer.com, Manheim and vAuto.

About Cox

We are the Cox family of businesses. Weve been making our mark since 1898 by building and evolving world-class businesses, staying true to our values, and encouraging top talent to always look for growth and impact while building a career with us. Our primary divisions - Cox Communications and Cox Automotive - are driving a new wave of innovation, powering smart cities with powerhouse broadband communications and pioneering greener, more progressive transportation alternatives for individuals and fleet operators. Were also expanding into new spaces like cleantech and healthcare to rev up our momentum toward building a better future for the next generation. Were looking for the talent today who will be our leaders tomorrow. Sound intriguing? Learn more about where we are today, where we hope youll be going with us, and the common purpose that unites us at coxenterprises.com.

Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page.

Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer - All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individuals age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.

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