Scrum Master

As a Scrum Master you will work in a dynamic environment where innovation is part of our DNA. You will be a part of our team within Web & Solutions and work closely with dedicated scrum team to help them develop their Agile skills in order to become self-organized and benefit from an agile way of working. You will work in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment with other experienced scrum masters who share your passion for agile ways of working and coaching!


Your responsibilities
You will as a Scrum Master impart confidence in the team in their capability to achieve success and support them to achieve increased agile maturity based on modern agile principles. You will help them to be data-driven and track agreed performance metrics. As a Scrum Master you enable the team to establish and abide by a set of ‘norms’ that help them govern their standards, behaviors and interactions. Other parts of your job:


• Servant leadership and Coaching.
• Clarity – ensure visibility to the team on key milestones and priorities coming from product agenda or technology changes. Deliver transparency on team’s plans to the department and to the stakeholders.
• Operational excellence – balance effort between reliable services and delivery commitment. Ensure high quality support culture in the team. Drive continuous operational improvement through tooling and prioritized corrective actions.
• Control risks – work with the team to identify and mitigate issues and risks. Clearly identify and manage external dependencies.
• Grow and improve an effective self-organizing, cross-functional and disciplined team where individuals recognize that team success is more important than individual success.


Your background
We believe that you are Scrum Mastering – certified or have at least 3 years background in Agile methods. You have solid technical background and experience achieving successful software product delivery. You have good understanding of continuous delivery, support best practices, technical debt, software architecture, scaling, DevOps, etc. We believe that you have experience growing and facilitating highly motivated and capable teams to deliver innovative software products and that you establish credibility with people very quickly. Furthermore, you have or are experienced in:


• University degree in Information Technology, Engineering and related subjects
• Facilitation, participatory decision-making and conflict resolution.
• Light-touch leadership that employs a highly collaborative approach to guide people without controlling them but employing authority when the situation requires.
• Effective organization that reduces the amount of noise, distractions and interruptions.
• Mentoring skills that demonstrate the agile values and principles in every thought and action.
• A deep interest in driving value-creating innovation
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• More than 3 years of experience in Agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban


Location: Solna, Sweden


Our Offer
• We offer a challenging and international work environment and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field.
• You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues
• A professional environment where your business intelligence knowledge and attitude will bring us one step further.
• A central office location with easy access by public transport.
• Furthermore, a healthy work-life balance (smart working) and time to develop your profession
• At Vattenfall you get the opportunity to work for a clean energy company that aims for creating fossil free energy within one generation.
• And last but not least; International and multi-cultural work environment with energetic, motivated colleagues that like to have fun as well!


P.S We also access to gym and training classes in our Solna office


We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter, not later than October 30th. For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Mahsa Firoozfam,+46 727 27 90 30. For questions regarding the process please contact recruiter Elnoosh Farhoudfar, +46 730 60 25 49.


Trade union representatives in Sweden: Sofi Wadström (Akademikerna), Inger Strandberg/Lars-Erik Näsman (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Lennart Bengtsson (SEKO). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.


At Vattenfall, we are convinced that striving for diversity helps building a more profitable, efficient and attractive company. We continue to seek a harmonious balance of employees in terms of gender, age, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.


Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.