Senior Scrum Master

Opportunity
Where do you want your career adventure to go next? If it’s using your talent to make a big impact across a truly global company, let’s get started. Because technology is transforming global trade, and as an industry leader, we’re spearheading the change. At Maersk, we are rapidly digitising our business and building our capabilities across the world. And this is your chance to work on the products that will get us there, bringing innovation and collaboration together.
We offer
In this role we offer an opportunity to work in an agile environment with colleagues working on cutting edge software engineering, data and data science practices that will transform the transport and logistics industry. We are passionate about providing a great customer experience with products that help connect the world.
As a Scrum Master and Agile Coach in Maersk, you will be part of a team of Scrum Masters and the communities of agile and engineering practitioners across the company.
We operate in a fast-paced environment utilizing modern technologies with a bias toward action.
We value customer outcomes and are passionate about using technology to solve problems.
We are a diverse team with colleagues from different backgrounds and cultures
We offer the freedom, and responsibility, to shape the setup and the processes we use in our community
We support continuous learning, including through our active community of practices, conferences, workshops and meetups.



This is an extremely exciting time to join a dynamic team and solve some of the toughest problems in the industry and build the future of trade & logistics. Maersk offers a unique opportunity to impact global trade through integrated logistics solutions. We focus on our people and the right candidate will have broad possibilities to further develop competencies in an environment characterised by change and continuous progress.
Key responsibilities
Perform the role of Scrum Master for multiple concurrent sprint teams
Run sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint retrospective, daily scrum, and other project planning meetings.
Coordinating deliveries across multiple scrum teams
Forecast sprint iterations with the Product Owner and concerned business partners to better understand dependencies between tasks and teams.
Shield sprint teams from outside distractions and unintended dependencies and interference
Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving.
Facilitate discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution between sprint team members and Product Owners.
Managing the engagement with an acquired organization
Work with service owners, engineering manager and scrum teams to plan sprint execution by adopting various lean strategies
Understand and explain key metrics to the team to drive continuous improvements
Mentor and Coach teams in agile processes and tools to develop well scoped issues and epics and correct use of scrum process



We are looking for
Experience of working with multi-location teams.
Experience working in a large technical environment
7+ years with IT background
3+ years of managing Scrum Teams
3+ years of experience with Agile Project Management Tools including Atlassian JIRA, Confluence
Demonstrable experience of working in a complex IT environment with a clear service focus
Extensive experience of agile delivery approaches including delivery of agile at scale (e.g. Scrum, LEAN, Kanban,etc..) and associated ways of working
Extensive knowledge of scrum/project and services methodologies and development principles, challenges, and best practices including hands-on experience in :
Strong understanding of the various agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe alongside the development tools used to support them such as Atlassian JIRA, Confluence
Certified Scrum Master including extensive experience in a scrum master role
Configuration and/or development of industry standard enterprise operations workflow tools such as Jira and ServiceNow



At Maersk we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to: gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.