Scrum Master

Our story:

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”

Our Values:

Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.

Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.

Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others.

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

Learn more at careers.alight.com

Job Description

Essential Duties:

• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.

• Guiding the team on how to get the most of out self-organization.

• Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.

• 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 on healing and problem-solving.

• Making sure team is focused on the sprint goals and PI objectives and support the team in achieving it

• 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.

• 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.

• Proficient in Agile Metrices and able to coach team in gauging the deliveries. Required Skills/Experience:

• Total 8-10 years of IT industry experience and minimum 5 years as Scrum Master

• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least 5 years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.

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

• Knowledge of various techniques of doing Scrum events.

• Able to perform as an individual contributor.

• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

• Experienced in collaboration and coordination with multiple agile teams

• Any Agile Toolset expertise