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 teams 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

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

Masters or bachelors 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.