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Eaton Corporation Scrum Master - Tax Product in Beachwood, Ohio

Eaton’s IT team is currently seeking a Scrum Master – Tax Product to join team. This position will be based at our Beachwood, Ohio, Moon TWP, PA, Houston, TX, Galesburg, MI, Raleigh, NC or Menomonee Falls, WI. The position is eligible for hybrid work setup.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $105,000 - $154,000 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What you’ll do:

Job Summary:

This position will oversee and manage Tax product and software development teams as a servant leader. The Scrum Master will ensure that teams follow Agile practices and Scrum framework values, work to increase team efficiency, provide motivation and guidance for process improvement, and help with scaling. The Scrum Master will ensure that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox. The Scrum Master will work to eliminate cross-team impediments and promote Kaizen thinking.

The Scrum Master works directly with Product Owners, engineers and other product team members to guide the product development lifecycle, help create user stories, and manage the product backlog.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Lead the development and implementation of tax product solutions, ensuring they comply with current tax laws and regulations.

  • Manage the project lifecycle for tax-related products, from initiation to closure, ensuring deliverables meet quality standards and client expectations.

  • Collaborate with tax experts and consultants to integrate tax strategies and solutions into product offerings

  • Accountable for all Agile ceremonies of a Scrum team including planning, review, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups

  • Drive a Secure Tax Product Development Lifecycle approach that establishes a strong cybersecurity focus and culture across the entire engineering lifecycle

  • Use Agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions

  • Assists the Product Owner with epic creation, decomposition and multi-sprint planning

  • Support the estimation and prioritization of user stories

  • Collect, track, and report Agile metrics on performance and progress of the product

  • Support the identification and implementation of improvement opportunities

  • Resolve impediments and escalate where required

  • Ensures a safe and trusting environment for the team to raise and resolve issues

  • Leads the capacity planning for each sprint

  • Communicates risks, status and general updates to stakeholders

  • Manage one or more Scrum teams across multiple geographies

  • Improve the Agile maturity of the team on a continuous basis

  • Support the Product Owner in cost tracking for scrum projects

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution.

• Minimum 5 years of leading technology projects or working in Finance/Tax environment

• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship now or in the future.

• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of the work location will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Scrum Master Certification

• Experience with Agile software tools and producing Agile artifacts

• Experience with modern software development principles including code management, test automation, APIs, microservices, and cloud services.

• Experience with Finance and Tax projects

Technical knowledge:

-Demonstrable understanding of product management and modern product delivery processes

  • Strong knowledge in Finance and Tax, with the ability to apply financial principles and tax implications to product development and business strategy.

Skills:

Soft skills:

  • Strong communication and presentation skills

  • Patience and empathy working with mentees and people new to Agile

  • Comfortable working directly with both technical and non-technical audiences

  • Strong listening skills with the intention of understanding

  • Experience working with diverse, global cultures, organizations and teams

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We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here (https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/company/careers/US%20Benefits%20updated%2010.24.22.pdf) for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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