Scrum Master - Financial Services & Management Consulting

At Outsized, we match clients in financial services and management consulting to high-quality independent consultants and boutique/specialist firms for the execution of their key projects.

Our client, a global consulting firm, is looking for a Scrum Master to join their team in Bangalore.

Responsibilities:

- Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.

- Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support the organizational project or product teams.

- Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments.

- 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 on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

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

Mandatory Requirements:

- Minimum 5 years exp with at least 2 years- exp as Scrum Master

- Bachelor's in Engineering (preferably Computer Science) or equivalent

- Experience in playing the Scrum Master role.

- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.

- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques Planning and problem-solving with product management and delivery teams

- The experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques to enhance the Scrum approach (e.g. progress visualisation techniques, retrospective formats, approaches for handling bugs, etc.)

Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus):

- Knowledge and experience of other agile, lean and DevOps approaches (e.g. XP, Kanban, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, etc.)

- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

While the initial joining will be remote, the selected consultant will be required to relocate to Bangalore when conditions allow. This is a contractual opportunity and will be on an initial 10-12 month full-time contract