Introduction to the job
As Scrum Master you are a servant leader with strong coaching skills and broad Scaled Agile experiences you train your team(s) on Scrum practices, facilitate Scrum events and continuously stimulate your team(s) to improve to highly autonomous yet highly aligned team(s). You are working in close consultation with the Release Train Engineer and other Scrum Masters in the Agile Release Train for HR. You will be helping your team reach new heights with regards to predictability, quality and collaboration within the team, but also within the ART. All of this includes guidance to offshore team members.

The Scrum Master works closely together with:
• The RTE of the Agile Release Train for HR
• The Product Owner in business for the team(s) you serve and coach
• The Developers in your Agile teams
• Other Scrum Masters in the ART
• The CPO and System Architect for the ART
• The Agile Competence Center in ASML and many other stakeholders outside the ART.

Role and responsibilities
Facilitates the team in getting the work done
Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization
Creates transparency and alignment on team speed, quality of deliverables and happiness
Signals and helps to remove impediments to ensure the Agile team gets the work done
Facilitates the team to ensure quality related to own discipline is secured in the team
Creates focus in the team by shielding them from external interferences
Provides analyses of current team rituals, evaluates bottlenecks and advice regarding improvements in team rituals
Helps the people around the team to understand which interaction with the team is helpful or not
Coaches the team with handling dependencies and risks
Align with the Release Train Engineer
Coaches the team to have pre-conditions in place to start a work item (Definition of Ready)

Education and experience
· Master or Bachelor degree
· Ideally Agile + SAFe certified (scrum.org and/or SAFe®certifications)
· Experience in IT environments of corporate organizations
· You are in possession of a valid work permit for The Netherlands

Skills
Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.
To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:

Expected behavior
· Coaches on agile practices and behavior for everybody in and around the scrum team
· Builds team and coaches team members to act as a team
· Acts as a servant leader and escalation level for the team
· Chairs and drives the rituals (scrum, sprint and program increment), ensures its disciplined execution, helping the team to understand why this is important
· Drives team level continuous improvement, i.e. challenges the team in view of the agile key performance parameters towards greater efficiency
· Ensures alignment with other Scrum Masters on dependencies
· Ensures focus and keeps the teams from getting distracted
· Ensures collaboration between scrum teams

Personal skills
· Excellent English communication and presentation skills
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills
· Highly-motivated, with a strong work ethic and able to work effectively under minimal supervision
· Team building and facilitation, removing roadblocks and knows everything about scrum

Diversity & Inclusion
ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.