Manager Scrum Master with .net development Experience - Immediate joiners

Scrum Master Role Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish clear sprint goals and ensure team members are motivated, supported and skilled to achieve these goals.
• Maximize team effectiveness by identifying and removing impediments that inhibit performance – e.g. dependencies, inefficiencies, unnecessary processes, etc.
• Enhance the team's self-organization and build a genuine culture of reflection and improvement.
• Foster critical thinking and empower team members to take ownership of technical quality and their design choices.
• Provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to individuals and the team.
• If required, guide and manage multiple Scrum teams (2-3) at the same time with different team sizes, different cultures, co-located and distributed teams
• Teach and coach application developers to adopt Continuous Delivery practices such as Test-Driven Development, Specification by Example, Story Mapping, and other Lean/Agile Modelling Techniques
• Identify and implement agile metrics to measure a team’s Agility and then use those measures to help guide a team forward
• Ensure observance of DoD (definition of done)

The Ideal Candidate will possess the following attributes:

• Passionate about coaching and developing high performing agile delivery teams
• Manage multiple activities and issues across numerous projects in a high pace environment
• Leadership and problem solving skills
• Energetic and enthusiastic
• Certified Scrum Master / Iteration Manager with 2 - 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Strong internal stakeholder management skills
• Provide guidance and to build a good relationship between the team and Product Owner as well as others outside the team
• Strategic thinker that will challenge Product Owners and have the ability to take initiatives and be accountable for key decisions.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience:

• Must have 2+ years of professional experience working as Scrum Master and preferably 5 years’ experience at project management, team management level
• Experience being a Scrum Master on multiple Scrum teams
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle and DevOps.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and user stories etc.
• Experience in applying Scrum patterns and techniques (like Burndown techniques, Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
• Programming experience using the .Net framework – including ASP.Net, VB, C#, LINQ, WPF, WCF, MVC, XML.
• Experience with Microservices architecture
• Technical design experience – translating functional requirements into technical designs in a complex .Net (or similar) technical environment
• Ability to develop accurate build estimates based on technical designs
• Master of JIRA, Confluence etc.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) / PMI-ACP preferred
• Experience working in a large AD shop with highly distributed applications is a strong plus
• Experience teaching and mentoring others in Agile process, including adapting Agile to make it work in various environments in a strong plus
• Technical Application Development background preferred