[EMC] NEO Agile Scrum Master (1 Year Contract)

This position will be contracted through Bosch’s external vendor under a one-year agreement.About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Agile Scrum Master to join our Audio team, which develops core audio components for state-of-the-art Automotive Infotainment systems.

In this role, you will act as a servant leader, coach, and mentor, helping the team build a great product that is highly valued by our customers. Since this project operates within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), you will play a key role in coordinating cross-team dependencies, driving continuous improvement, and facilitating target-oriented collaboration across international borders—including regular communication with our teams in Germany.

Main Responsibilities1. Agile Facilitation & Process Ownership

• Ceremony Management: Organize, schedule, and facilitate crucial Scrum events, including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Method Champion: Guide and coach the team in adopting Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban practices effectively, ensuring agile values and principles are deeply embedded in daily operations.
• Metrics and Transparency: Define and utilize agile metrics (e.g., team velocity, burndown/burnup charts) to make progress transparent and drive reliable sprint planning.

2. Servant Leadership & Team Coaching

• Empower & Mentor: Act as a servant leader to foster a self-organizing, autonomous, and high-performing team culture.
• Protect the Team: Shield the team from external disruptions, manage top-down pressure, and establish a high degree of psychological safety.
• Impediment Removal: Proactively identify, track, and facilitate the resolution of technical or process-related roadblocks that hinder team productivity.

3. SAFe Coordination & Dependency Management

• Cross-Team Alignment: Coordinate non-technical dependencies and align with other Scrum teams within the Agile Release Train (ART).
• ART Participation: Active participation in scaled agile ceremonies such as Scrum of Scrums, Product Owner/Scrum Master Syncs, and Program Increment (PI) Planning.

4. Collaboration & Quality

• Product Owner Collaboration: Support the Product Owner in maintaining a refined, well-estimated, and prioritized Product Backlog.
• Quality Assurance Support: Assist the team in maintaining high development and testing quality standards, ensuring adherence to the Definition of Done (DoD).

Mandatory Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.