Senior Scrum Master

Date: Nov 14, 2024

Location(s): Juno Beach, FL, US, 33408

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID: 83845

is America’s largest electric company, providing clean, affordable, and reliable electricity to more than 12 million people in Florida. We operate one of the cleanest power generation fleets in the U.S. and our reliability is among the best in the nation. Our goal is to achieve Real Zero carbon emissions from our operations by 2045 by expanding our solar capacity, increasing battery storage and bringing new renewable energy opportunities to Florida, while improving customer affordability and reliability. Are you interested in becoming a game-changer in the energy industry? Join our world-class team today!

Position Specific Description

This Sr Scrum Master role will serve as a primary IT liaison to the Accounting organization, coordinating overall IT project success for 2-3 cross functional Agile teams. Key responsibilities include direct project management in the Agile framework, overseeing project budgets, removing impediments, and clarifying dependencies to ensure the team’s overall success.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Directly responsible for the project success for 2 complex Agile teams

• Coordinates with Scrum masters and RTE’s for Accounting teams and RTEs for FP&A and ISC trains.

• Conducts PI pre-planning for Accounting teams, facilitates/coordinates consolidated PI planning for all ITECA teams (FP&A and ISC) together.

• Facilitates Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives).

• Tracks, promotes, and publishes completed program initiatives, epics and business value metrics following Agile methodology.

• Owns the planning, estimation, design, configuration, testing, and production release on financial projects which typically involve and impact multiple business areas.

• Interacts with business leadership and key stakeholders to gather requirements, estimate effort/cost, prioritize work, develop enhancements, coordinate testing, and perform change management.

• Ability to ‘lead with influence’ to coach teams towards self-organization and continuous improvement.

• Promotes and encourages collaboration and transparency and builds trusting relationships between business, delivery, and other entities within the organization.

Job Overview

This job provides leadership and direction to an Agile team, serves as an expert in the Scrum process, and enforces Scrum rules and framework. Employees in this role organize and facilitate release and sprint planning sessions, daily stand-up meetings, sprint demos, retrospectives, story refining sessions, and related activities. Leaders in this job embrace and display servant leadership behaviors that come with the key mindset shifts associated with being Agile and facilitate the team becoming self-managing and high-performing.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Organizes and facilitates work planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, and sprint and release planning

• Facilitates collaboration for both internal and external teams, resolving conflict, removing impediments, and reducing external dependencies

• Coaches team members and stakeholders in preparation for Scrum ceremonies and events and in goal attainment

• Coaches team in Agile sizing techniques, makes appropriate and realistic commitments, and works closely with Product Owners

• Uses the Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool to prepare, communicate, and share team metrics and delivery results

• Creates a product roadmap, coaches the writing of value-driven user stories, features, and epics, and maintains a well-refined backlog

• Provides regular feedback to the Agile Transformation Team about new insights and lessons learned from team experiences

• Embraces servant leadership and displays behaviors that come with the key mindset shifts associated with being Agile

• Keeps informed and educated about industry trends concerning Agile methodologies

• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• High School Grad / GED

• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience

• Experience: 4+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• None

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Clickto learn more.

Employee Group: Exempt

Employee Type: Full Time

Job Category: Information Technology

Organization: Florida Power & Light Company

Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. Alternatively, you may call 1-844-694-4748. Please do not use this line to inquire about your application status.

NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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