Scrum Master - IT

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic:

- Improving Engineering and Delivery Excellence through adoption of Agile (Scrum) methodology

- Increase transparency and awareness across stakeholders on team's Agile transformation journey and key achievements

Operational:

- Establish a roadmap for Agile transformation of the respective team(s) using the Scrum Framework

- Collaborate with Agile Coach to train and ready the product team to adopt Scrum

- Lead team through Forming, Storming, Norming to Performing using Scrum to achieve higher levels of Agile maturity

- Help Product Managers find techniques for effective Product Backlog management

- Establish and ready a Product Engineering team/unit to be self-sufficient

- Help the Product Engineering team in story sizing, splitting and estimations

- Establish and own all Sprint ceremonies to ensure a positive, productive team environment, that delivers on the Sprint promise

- Help team embrace and exhibit Agile principles and values

- Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles or impediments for the team

- Coach the teams in self-management and cross-functionality

- Monitor and analyse Sprint reports, burndown, velocity, and drive improvements

Educational Qualification - Bachelors in Engineering or MCA/MBA

Previous Experience:

- 7-10 years of IT experience with at least 2-3 years as a Scrum Master, having gone through some aspects of the Agile Transformation journey

Industry to be hired from :

- IT Industry (Product Organizations preferred)

Skills & Knowledge required/Competencies:

- Strong interpersonal, negotiation, influence and general leadership skills to guide, mentor and motivate the team in an environment of trust and fun.

- Expertise in Scrum (certification preferred) to guide teams on Agile transformation journey, to own and deliver on strategic imperatives with quality.

- Unambiguous written, oral and aural communication with demonstrated ability to arbitrate differing opinions and influence across boundaries to unblock team.

- Proficiency with Atlassian tools such as JIRA and Confluence.

- Unambiguous written, oral and aural communication with demonstrated ability to arbitrate differing opinions and influence across boundaries to unblock team.

- Proficiency with Atlassian tools such as JIRA and Confluence