Scrum Master - Palo Alto. CA

What we offer

Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. Apply now!

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries innovate through simplification. From the back office to the boardroom, warehouse to storefront, on premise to cloud, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.

SAP Ariba, an SAP Company is the global leader in business commerce networks with over $1 trillion in commerce among more than 2 million connected companies. Today, about 63% of the world’s enterprise transaction revenues touch an SAP system. By connecting many of those enterprises and their ecosystem of partners, suppliers and customers to the business network, SAP is aiming to become a leader in the fast-growing segment of cloud-based business networks. These networks enable companies to connect, collaborate, buy and sell across the globe in new and innovative ways. The Global 2000 companies spend $12 trillion with their suppliers today - the fact that the majority of Global 2000 companies are customers of SAP provides a huge market potential for network based business-to-business collaboration.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

Ariba is looking for a Scrum Master with a passion for guiding and coaching the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practice and principles to deliver high-quality software solutions. As a Scrum Master, you are responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

• Facilitates and support all scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the team
• Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders to influence and drive decision making and support team
• Experience with agile product development
• Demonstrate and review development deliverables with senior leadership and product management
• Multi-tasking - Ability to manage multiple tasks and objectives simultaneously.
• Composure under Pressure – Ability to work in a high-pressure environment with tight deadlines.
• Ensure delivered functionality meets the requirements of external and internal stakeholders.

EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security or related field
• 4+ years professional experience as Scrum Master
• Previous experience working in a security-related software development effort is a plus
• Excellent writing, communication, and presentation skills
• Must be able to work on-site in Palo Alto, CA
• SAP is not providing relocation assistance for this position

SAP'S DIVERSITY COMMITMENT

To harness the power of innovation, SAP invests in the development of its diverse employees. We aspire to leverage the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies that each person brings to the company.

We are SAP

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with 200 million users and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, we build breakthroughs, together.

Our inclusion promise

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.

SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Americas: Careers.NorthAmerica@sap.com or Careers.LatinAmerica@sap.com, APJ: Careers.APJ@sap.com, EMEA: Careers@sap.com.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Requisition ID:323549 | Work Area: Software-Development Operations | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time |