Scrum Master

Key Information:

• Location: Embassy 247, Vikhroli, Mumbai
• Workplace type: In-office, Hybrid
• Experience level: 5+ years
• Other skills we consider: (3As) Adaptability, Accountability and Attention to detail 

About Freespace (afreespace.com):

We’re a workplace technology company helping organizations to achieve three key outcomes:

Right size, right design:

Smart building automations:

Exceptional employee experiences:

To achieve these outcomes, we provide an integrated platform that delivers actionable workplace intelligence, through a real-time analytics platform, workplace sensors, employee experience app, signage and space management solutions. We have recently been recognized with a nomination for the IFMA New York Awards of Excellence in the Sustainability category, underscoring their achievements in fostering adaptive, efficient, and sustainable work environments.

About Role:

Scrum master will be member of an agile team that has adopted scrum principles and takes on a leadership role involving the management, advocacy, orchestration and support of scrum theory, values, events and artifacts.

This is a servant leadership role working with one or more scrum teams within or across products to maximize the value created by team. You will work in a cross-functional team of product owners, software developers & testers. 

Your responsibilities as a Scrum Master:

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• Promoting agile values, principles, practices, and methods to establish a sustainable understanding of agile.

• Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.

• Shielding the Scrum Team from undesired interruptions and creating a trusting, collaborative environment.

• Organizing and facilitating agile events while ensuring that common agile rules are followed.

• Being a servant leader, sparring partner, conflict resolver and coach to the Scrum Team.

• Supporting the Product Owner to effectively manage the Product Backlog to maximize value.

• Supporting the Development Team to work self-organized and self-directed.

• Proactively help teams to identify and remove impediments to their progress.

• Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.

• Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.

• Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.

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

• Participating in our agile community of practice to share knowledge and continuously learn from others

Skill sets we require:

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• Knowledge of agile approaches – Scrum, Kanban, XP, Scaled Agile, etc.

• Knowledge and experience with agile techniques – automated testing, user stories, TDD, continuous integration, testing, pairing, agile games, etc.

• Recognized certification as Scrum Master (e.g. Scrum Alliance CSM).

• Very good interpersonal and communication skills.

• Good technical skills in JIRA and Confluence.

• Fluency in speaking and writing in English.

• Ability to orchestrate across multiple agile teams.

• Hands-on and results-driven mentality.

• Experience with distributed teams and virtual collaboration.

Behaviours and Mindset:

• See projects through from conception into production and support, ensuring quality throughout.

• Be an advocate for high data quality standards. Ensure high standards by instilling data quality checks and documentation in work and team practices.

• Be a clear thinker with a systematic problem-solving approach, breaking the problem down into simple achievable and realistically estimated steps.

• Able to challenge processes & tools in zeal to creating the best Agile environment.

• Create an open, trusting working environment with open communication and input from all.

• Be unafraid to own mistakes and push their own development as well as their team

• Always ensure customer priority and focus

Experience & Pedigree:

Bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science engineering or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in a Scrum Master or Agile Coach or RTE