Scrum Master

About Birlasoft:

Birlasoft, a powerhouse where domain expertise, enterprise solutions, and digital technologies converge to redefine business processes. We take pride in our consultative and design thinking approach, driving societal progress by enabling our customers to run businesses with unmatched efficiency and innovation. As part of the CKA Birla Group, a multibillion-dollar enterprise, we boast a 12,500+ professional team committed to upholding the Group's 162-year legacy. Our core values prioritize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, along with Corporate Sustainable Responsibility (CSR) activities, demonstrating our dedication to building inclusive and sustainable communities. Join us in shaping a future where technology seamlessly aligns with purpose.

About the Job

As part of an Agile/Scrum team, the Scrum Master performs the critical role of Servant-Leader to the team. The Scrum Master uses their skills of collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and coaching to support the development of our software applications, removing impediments while promoting the team’s self-management and continuous improvement.

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Must have Skills -

Experience with Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool ADO

Candidate must be from technology background who understands how IT projects work and function. Its good to have if from Middleware background.

• Servant-Leader – exhibits the servant-as-leader behaviors of coaching, service to the team, and empowerment of

the team to come up with solutions to their problems.

• Self-motivated - capable of managing multiple priorities with little instruction or oversight.

• Collaboration – exhibits ability to work with and through others to achieve shared goals.

• Communication skills – maintains frequent and effective communication within and across teams.

• Experience with Scrum, Lean and/or XP inspired practices required

Nice to have Skills -

• Flexibility – ability to adapt to frequent changes within the scrum framework and principles.

• Organization – ability to organize meetings, reviews, retrospectives and other scrum ceremonies.

• Facilitation – ability to facilitate meetings, drawing out key concerns and issues to ensure the principle of

continuous improvement.

• Conflict Resolution and ability to remove impediments.

• Tracking – ability to track team progress and velocity using various methods including charts, graphs, etc.

• High-energy – shows enthusiasm and displays energy to take on daily issues and bring them to conclusion on

behalf of the team.

• Agile Practices – expert understanding of Scrum practices and related agile tools and techniques. Understanding

of Scaled Agile environments.

• Software Development – basic understanding of the fundamentals of software development and the software

development lifecycle.

• Experience working in an iterative Development environment, utilizing Scrum practices.

• One or more of the following relevant Agile certifications is required: CSM, A-CSM, CSPO, CSP, CSC, CST,

Scrum.org, DSDM, ICAgile, PMI-ACP

Primary role and responsibility -

• Act as servant-leader to an agile team; removing impediments and ensuring team productivity.

• Protect the team from outside interference, removing impediments, and ensuring that the work is delivered as a

team.

• Empower teams to self-organize and Lead by example, demonstrating and upholding scrum principles.

• Organize and facilitate scrum ceremonies, ensuring usefulness and adherence to scrum practice.

• Ensure team delivering stories such that they meet the definition of done.

• Lead team retrospectives and ensure key learning is incorporated into next sprint.

• Coach team members to uphold scrum principles.

• Cultivate and environment of trust, good faith, empowerment and creativity.

• Facilitate discussions and conflict resolution.

• Communication/Tracking

• Track team delivery on commitments through the use of burndown charts and other visual methods.

• Produce and post sprint plans and otherwise act as an information radiator.

• Track team velocity to ensure accuracy of future planning.

• Work with the Product Owner to understand the business priorities and items to be groomed in upcoming

sprints.

• Ensure Product Owner is informed if changes occur that impact delivery to the business.

• Actively participate in activities related to agile adoption across the organization.

• Drive weekly backlog refinement sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and ‘ready-for-

work’ per the Product Owners priorities.

• Provide input to and participate in Release Planning.

• Coordinate release planning with other Scrum teams throughout the organization.

• Lead Sprint Planning sessions ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold scrum principles.