Scrum Master - Cloud Tool Chain

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

What we offer
The Connected Experience organization within R&D includes Connectivity and Car Cloud Platform, Infotainment Platform, Applications and Data & Diagnostics. Our vision and strategy are to maximize the attractiveness of owning and using a Volvo, make all cars connected and provide a continuously enhanced experience for both new and existing cars. 

Our Agile Release Train (ART) Car Cloud Platform mission within the Department Connectivity and Car Cloud Platform is to enable cloud services globally to contribute to the overall connected experience. We build, provide, and operate a highly secure run-time ecosystem for functions and applications serving our connected cars, and their users. We aim to optimize functional and organic growth by using standard cloud technologies with high level of synergies and re-use. With our car cloud solution, we provide cloud infrastructure, platform core & services to support software development lifecycle (DevOps) by providing tools for fast feedback & built-in quality.

What you will do 
We are now looking for a Scrum Master for our monitoring system team. You will be working with a group of skilled engineers, who are currently engaged in product development within the Connected Car Platform. This system team is organized with other teams in an Agile Release Train (ART) and aim to continuously deliver value.

You will have the opportunity to help Volvo Cars on the Agile journey, work with an experienced Release Train Engineer and participate in the Scrum Master Community of Practice to share best practices and evolve ideas.

You will work closely with the Team Manager and Product Owner to drive the removal of impediments and build up empowered high performing teams.

You will also support with facilitating real-time data transparency e.g., visualization of KPIs, Quality metrics, Test coverage etc. together with Team Manager and Release Train Engineer.

You and your background
We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master who have previously coached software engineering or system teams to be well functioning and high performing.

You are a servant leader and coach the team using agile team practices with focus on flow and take lead in the continuous improvement work.

You would bring experience in supporting and coaching teams, cross-functional collaboration, large-scale system design and hands-on software development.

You would carry a degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

If you have solid experience on SAFe framework as as well as working in Jira and/or have been Jira administrator, it will be highly beneficial in this role.

For you to fully enjoy this opportunity, we believe that you have a genuine interest of working with team performance and value flow. You embrace teamwork, collaboration and are eager to learn and develop new competences. We also expect you to be on top of the evolution within Agile/SAFe and provide new ideas to continuously improve the value flow.

How to learn more and apply 
Does this sound like your next challenge? Please apply no later than June 30th, however incoming applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so please apply as soon as possible. For questions about the position please contact Maxime Nicco (maxime.nicco@volvocars.com). For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact (mark.chan@volvocars.com). Please note that we will not accept applications via email due to GDPR.