[Remote] IT Scrum Master

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lineage is a logistics company seeking an IT Scrum Master to act as a servant-leader for agile teams. The Scrum Master will facilitate team productivity, coach team members on scrum principles, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure project delivery aligns with priorities. Responsibilities • Act as servant-leader to one or more agile teams; removing impediments and ensuring team productivity • Lead by example, demonstrating and upholding scrum principles. • Protect the team from distractions and interruptions • Lead daily scrum standup meetings, ensuring usefulness and adherence to scrum practice • Ensure team is evaluating stories to meet the definition of done. • Lead team retrospectives and ensure key learning is incorporated into next sprint. • Coach team members to uphold scrum principles. • Track team delivery on commitments through the use of burndown charts and other visual methods • Produce and post sprint plans and otherwise act as an information radiator. • Track team velocity to ensure accuracy of future planning. • Work with key stakeholders to understand priorities and items to be groomed in upcoming sprints • Ensure stakeholders are informed if changes occur that impact delivery. • Work with other teams to ensure alignment of priorities and that dependencies are delivered in the appropriate sprints to support other teams’ delivery commitments. • Actively drive continuous improvement in scrum practices. • Work with customers as a key stakeholder in setting priorities, understanding requirement work, and communicating progress. • Drive weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and ‘ready-to-work’ per the stakeholder priorities. • Provide input to and participate in Release Planning • Lead Sprint Planning sessions ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold scrum principles. • Participate in daily bug scrub meetings and work with Product Owner on prioritization and assignment. Skills • College diploma or university degree in software engineering, computer science, or business administration and/or 3-5 years equivalent work experience. • Minimum 3-5 years of experience as Scrum Master with application software. • 3-5 Years Project Management experience • CSM - Certified Scrum Master required • Assertiveness – able to achieve goals of the team by actively driving to resolution of issues, holding team accountable to their actions and commitments • Servant-Leader – exhibits the servant-as-leader behaviors of coaching, service to the team, and empowerment of the team to come up with solutions to their problems. • Self-motivated - capable of managing multiple priorities with little instruction or oversight. • Collaboration – exhibits ability to work with and through others to achieve shared goals. • Social – takes an interest in and exhibits socials skills to enhance team bonding. • Communication skills – maintains frequent and effective communication within and across teams. • Flexibility – ability to adapt to frequent changes within the scrum framework and principles. • Organization – ability to organize meetings, reviews, retrospectives • Facilitation – ability to facilitate meetings, drawing out key concerns and issues to ensure the principle of continuous improvement. • Tracking – ability to track team progress and velocity using various methods including charts, graphs, development tools, etc. • High-energy – shows enthusiasm and displays energy to take on daily issues and bring them to conclusion on behalf of the team. • Agile Practices – basic understanding of agile/scrum iterative practices. • Software Development – basic understanding of the fundamentals of SOA software development and the software development lifecycle. • Acts decisively for improvement in both projects and in the organization, addresses urgent, time sensitive or crisis issues • Leadership skills to align project and department goals with the organization's and sponsor's goals • Proven ability to lead project team, create and maintain group cohesiveness, interact with internal and external customers, manage vendor relationships • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Experience working as part of a team in a fast-paced environment. • Must be willing to occasionally work non-standard hours to support delivery of time-critical project deadlines • Experience in Supply Chain Management, Freight Forwarding, and/or Contract Logistics preferred • CSP - Certified Scrum Professional desired • Experience in Logistics industry desired • Experience with EDI communications desired Benefits • Medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits • 401k retirement plan • Paid time off • Annual bonus eligibility • A minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year Company Overview • Lineage is one of the world’s leading temperature-controlled industrial REITs and integrated solutions providers with a global network of over 480 strategically located facilities, totaling nearly 2.9 billion cubic feet of capacity across countries in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in Novi, Michigan, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.onelineage.com. Company H1B Sponsorship • Lineage has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 5 in 2025, 6 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 7 in 2022, 5 in 2021, 4 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job