Job Description

Job Description

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers with 2,300+ stores. The Albertsons Companies family of brands includes some of the most prominent brands in food retailing, with a growing base of loyal shoppers. Thanks to the professionalism, diversity, spirit, and friendliness of our people, we have locations across the U.S.

The Technology & Engineering Department has an opening for a Senior Scrum Master within the Digital Marketing team. The goal is to help build Albertsons MarTech/AdTech platforms and execute a multi-year roadmap that delivers new and optimized digital marketing advertising solutions. Albertson's Companies is looking for people who are interested in re-imagining the grocery experience by harnessing the power of digital technologies. The Digital Marketing team takes pride in empowering their employees and encouraging initiative and creativity in a very collaborative, agile environment. This position is located in Pleasanton, California.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Initiates and facilitates project kick-off and inception activities
* Coaches and mentors other Scrum Masters to encourage consistent, core best practices across the teams
* Takes responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum teams and third parties, release managers, or between the Scrum teams
* Exhibits desire to continuously learn new tools, techniques, and methodologies from teams and Agile community
* Understands Continuous integration and deployment and exhibits ability to run projects in the Scrum and Kanban methodologies, with multiple outside dependencies and remote project team members
* Effectively communicates with cross functional teams
* May develop and deliver formal presentations and training programs to end users, project teams, management teams and executive management.
* Interacts seamlessly with both business and project teams
* Facilitates discussions that lead to the resolution of project issues and development impediments
* Reports project progress to executive level stakeholders
* Properly manages shared resources across multiple projects
* Ensures all proper training and user documentation has been implemented
* Has working knowledge and understanding of Agile Software Development Methodology and incremental delivery
* Exhibits a desire to continuously improve, and shows a track record of improvement
* Communicates openly and frequently with stakeholders and subject matter experts regarding the state of the project
* Actively contributes to the company's Agile and Lean Community through participation in the internal Agile Community of Practice and Scrum Master Forums

Competencies:

* Servant Leader - Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to be hands-on
* Communicative - Must be able to communicate well with diverse teams and executive level stakeholders from the business in both verbal and written communications
* Facilitative - Must be able to coordinate and lead Scrum meeting, team discussion, Scrum of Scrums
* Attitude of transparency - Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business and Program Management to grow business trust
* Impediment & Conflict resolution - Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
* Assertive - Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls
* Continual improvement - Must continually be growing one's craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team
* Attitude of empowerment - Must be able to lead a self-organization team
* Quick learner - Must be able to quickly gain a high-level understanding of Scrum Teams Project Vision/Scope
* Team Player -- Must be able to work closely with Product Owner(s) in facilitating team and business discussions
* Understanding of backlog tracking, burndown/burnup metrics, velocity, cycle time and task definition

Qualifications:

* 4-year degree (Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration or relational functional field)
* 8+ years of work as a team member on a scrum project teams
* 3+ years acting as a ScrumMaster in software development environment working with multiple teams
* Must have prior experience in managing Marketing projects preferably Adobe and Google platforms
* Must have understanding with Marketing tools/solutions such as Analytics and Reporting, Campaign Management, CDPs, etc..
* Deep familiarity and understanding of Agile practices, SCRUM, Test Driven Development, XP, & Kanban
* Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment and work with various shared services team like Infrastructure, DevOps and other product engineering teams across domains
* High degree of initiative, purpose and enthusiasm

About us

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on innovation and building culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique vision: forging a retail winner that is admired for national strength, deep roots in the communities we serve, and a team that has passion for food and delivering great service.

Albertsons Culture Principles

* Compassion: We always treat each other with kindness and respect
* Team: We always support and recognize each other
* Inclusive: We always value everyone's perspective
* Learning: We always strive to grow and develop ourselves and others
* Competitive: We always act with integrity to win over the customer
* Ownership: We always take actions to drive our success

Physical Environment:

* Work may be performed in a temperature-controlled environment.
* Must sit, stand, or walk for extended periods of time.
* May spend long periods of time at desk or computer terminal.
* Will use keyboards, telephone, and other office equipment during the course of normal workday.
* Stooping, bending, twisting, and reaching may be required in completion of job duties.
* Work day is fast paced; some evening and weekend work may be required.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a resume by visiting https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/careers/en/home.html

Diversity is fundamental at Albertsons Companies. We foster an inclusive working environment where the different strengths and perspectives of each employee is both recognized and valued. We believe that building successful relationships with our customers and our communities is only possible through the diversity of our people. A diverse workforce leads to better teamwork and creative thinking, as well as mutual understanding and respect.

The Albertsons Companies policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions of employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, medical condition, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

We support a drug-free workplace -- some positions require applicants offered a position to pass a pre-employment drug test before they are hired.

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