Scrum Master/Agile Coach - IT

SCRUM MASTER | AGILE COACH

Software Products & Tech Solutions, Bangalore

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Agile Coach/Scrum Master to help transition our business from its existing work practices to infusing a real agile understanding. Working very closely with the Marketing Project team as their Scrum Master, however, will also have an extended Agile Coach role leading and working with the other scrum teams to further drive continued improvements.

You will coach, mentor and guide our people to figure out the best solutions for their specific department challenges. You will analyze the organization's existing infrastructure and implement improvements to help streamline processes and create efficiencies.

Ultimately, you will play a key role in the long-term strategy across the entire organization, helping our teams to deliver better products in a faster, more efficient manner.

Objectives of this role:

- Work with project teams to analyze current systems and processes and design a strategy for the adoption of agile best practices.

- Guide teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning approaches as needed to ensure the overall strategy is being met.

- Lead agile workshops for both development and functional teams, as well as key stakeholders.

- Promote and advocate a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and being accountable for them.

- Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensure the organization is at the forefront of industry best practices.

- Lead the scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices.

- Helping the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction.

- Lead the scrum and development teams in self-organization.

- Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments.

- Help the scrum and development teams to identify and fill in blanks in the Agile framework.

- Resolve conflicts and issues that occur.

- Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity.

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:

- Facilitate learning and development through individual and team coaching.

- Effectively communicate agile principles, scrum practices and overall operating model across to onshore Delivery Managers

- Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures across teams.

- Undertake daily follow-ups with individual team members to ensure projects are on track and goals are being met.

- Keep an objective perspective on issues and troubleshoots by applying agile principles.

- Hold stand-up meetings with cross-functional teams to review project status.

- Support teams in determining the resource allocation to maintain agile practices and ensure smooth project delivery.

Skills and Qualifications:

- 1+ year of experience as an Agile Coach.

- 5+ years of experience as an Scrum Master.

- Experience in Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe).

- Can showcase examples of implementing agile techniques in different cultures and environments.

- Experience running agile projects of varying size and complexity.

- Strong leader, educator, and coach.

- An excellent communicator and motivator.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Scrum Coach certification

- Scrum Master certification

- Experience coaching at medium to large organizations (20 - 100 employees)

Location: Bangalore