Scrum Master

PRINCIPLE PURPOSE OF JOB

The purpose of this position is to Nurture self-organizing, high performing teams through servant leadership and mentoring. Facilitates Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Stakeholder Demos and Sprint Retrospectives. Also, participates in Release Planning with Product & Portfolio teams. Conducts team assessments & improvise team’s velocity/ throughput. Overall 12+ years of IT experience, where last 5 years working as Agile Manager/ Scrum Master and certified SAFe Agilist.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Managing more than one scrum/ Kanban teams

• Doing everything possible to ensure delighting customers

• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers

• Guiding the team to be self-organized and cross functional.

• Guiding and facilitating teams to drive through release on demand implementing DevOps/CI/CD practices.

• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization

• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example

• Expertise knowledge & experience JIRA and JIRA align tools

• Experience in measuring various Sprint/Agile metrics and work towards improvement sprint over sprint.

• Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition

• Good working knowledge and experience in agile engineering practices BDD, TDD, ATDD, Continuous integration

• Certified CSM or PSM

• Recommended SAFe Agilist (SA)

KEY CONSTITUENTS

• Product Owner

• Business Analyst

• Delivery Team

• Technical working group

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

• Masters or bachelor’s in engineering in IT/ Electronics / Communication / Computer Science / Information Systems.

• 10 + years in IT development with 5 years in Agile Scrum & Kanban experience as Scrum Master.

• Exposure to Agile / TDD / BDD based development

• Exposure to Continues Integration, deployment & static code analysis Jenkins, Sonar

• Organizational skills with ability to be flexible and work with minimal direction

• Ability to work well independently and in a team environment

• Troubleshoot bottlenecks and propose changes to fix them

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Strong organizational skills and adaptive capacity for rapidly changing priorities and workloads

• Ability to work well independently and maintain focus in a highly dynamic work environment.

• Comfort in working with team members that are remote and located in the US, India or other geographies

• Ability to work within a matrix organization

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and guiding and facilitating discussions to enable release on demand.