Scrum Master I

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Job Description

    9 - 12 Years
    1 Opening
    Bangalore


Role description

Role Proficiency:

Partner with up to two business and technology teams to plan and execute tactical and strategic efforts; delivering the business vision.

Outcomes:

  • Team coordination: Ensure teams operate to agreed team cadence. Provide support to help teams reflect learn and improve on their Agile practice
  • Dependency coordination: Support teams to ensure smooth collaboration among ‘extended’ team members wherever required and enable clear visualisation of dependency blockers
  • Track and manage team Visual Management Boards: Help teams maintain their team data and collateral; keeping them relevant over time to changing needs of the business
  • Continuous improvement: Provide mentoring support to Product Owners and team members to refine their understanding of Agile practices
  • Support Product Owners in each team to engage inform influence and negotiate with stakeholders using product backlogs (prioritized based on value) as the basis for discussions.
  • Work with the Agile coach to ensure alignment to Agile values and principles.

Measures of Outcomes:

  • Percent of increase in Agile maturity as defined by the maturity tools i.e. adoption of Agile practices and participation within the team
  • Percent of achievement in OKRs or KPIs as defined for project / program
  • Number of contributions to Scrum Master guilds to improve Agile adoption; creating sustainability

Outputs Expected:

Change Agent:

  • Facilitate team events to drive Agile practices (e.g. daily stand up
    sprint planning sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives).
  • Conduct regular check- ins with all team members to provide performance feedback and offer coaching and mentoring
  • Create and maintain team metrics to monitor and measure teams performance (e.g. Velocity
    Burndown CFD’s cycle time etc)
  • Coach the team
    the product owner and business stakeholders on Agile practices and processes (e.g. methodology acceptance criteria user stories estimation etc.)
  • Provide training for the team on Agile concepts
    various practices and frameworks as required
  • Effectively use a variety of collaboration tools (e.g. Mural
    Miro MS Teams Zoom etc) to stimulate collaboration and transparency

Skill Examples:

  • Understand the business requirements and interact with SMEs at various stages of development
  • Understand the customer's technology landscape and requirements
  • Identify improvements for the release management process release schedule and plan
  • Understand RACI Matrix and Governance Framework for related projects
  • Promote continuous knowledge management
  • The ability to cut through unnecessary work and focus only on the essentials
  • Exhibits sound judgment under pressure with the ability to remain calm under stress
  • Possesses motivation and coaching skills; guiding and supporting teams throughout a project
  • The ability to think and make decisions quickly in rapidly changing circumstances
  • A true Servant leader with the relevant skills and competencies
  • Demonstrate conflict resolution skills to effectively facilitate the team business stakeholders and project delivery.

Knowledge Examples:

  • Experience applying a variety of patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: Retrospective formats handling bugs Backlog Prioritization collaboration team building techniques etc.)
    • Passion for Agile software development.
    • Understanding of fundamentals of software development processes and procedures.
    • Recognizing the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team.
    • Comprehension of incremental delivery and the benefit of metrics.
    • Understand the necessity of backlog tracking and grooming burndown metrics velocity and task definition.
    • Familiarity with common Agile practices and better development practices
    • Willingness to adhere to and promote adopted methodologies tools and standards to ensure consistency and compliance with defined standards.

    Additional Comments:

    Mandatory Skills: Agile Scrum Master, Sprint Planning, Project Management, Safe Skill to Evaluate: Agile Scrum Master, Sprint Planning, Safe,Leadership,Stakeholder-communication,project-management,Information-Security Experience: 8 to 14 Years Location: Bengaluru Job Description: Title: Scrum Master About the role: This is a full time employee position based out of the Bangalore, India. This is an individual contributor role with a deep passion to deliver exciting and challenging projects in the technology security space. Scrum Masters are responsible for holding true to the vision of the business as they manage activities across the program facilitating tough decisions between stakeholders. Scrum Masters are highly motivated and hands-on individuals with scrum master experience to help manage large scale systems implementations. Candidates will have a blend of Agile scrum master, SAFe methodology and waterfall project management experience. Education: A university bachelor's degree in business or computer science or relevant experience One or more certifications from any of the security education-credentialing institutes like GIAC, SANS Institute is a plus SAFe Scrum Master, PMP or CSM certification is a plus recruiting Team: The recruiting team works on various security domains like Endpoint Security, Inventory Mgmt, Identity & Access Mgmt, Threats & Vulnerabilities mgmt, Data Analytics & Sciences Prior Experience: Must-Haves: Minimum IT experience of 8 years 5+ years of IT experience 2+ years of Agile scrum master experience managing large technology projects Be disciplined, organized Possess ability to manage large scale global teams Highly proficient in MS Office, and familiar with Microsoft Azure DevOps Basic understanding of Scaled Agile (SAFe) guiding principals Experienced in setting up project timeline and work breakdown structure Experienced in using Agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc. Experience driving team improvements and sharing agile best practices Aptitude to quickly understand systems and technical concepts to explain to business partners Aptitude to identify project requirements Self-motivated and enthusiastic with proven creative and critical thinking capabilities Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles; remains flexible and calm in the face of uncertainty Ability to lead productive ceremonies, identify decisions made, and clearly state action items Strong verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion Be empathetic to needs of the customers, delivery team and stakeholders, while maintaining an assertive leadership and communications style Responsibilities: You’ll work with representatives from various Operating Companies, engineers, analysts, and developers to co-ordinate and manage delivery of end-to-end endpoint security solutions while leading global scrum teams. The capabilities will span from planning and management to engaging various business and technical teams to build out Epics, User Stories, and tasks. You will review deliverables, manage team workload, manage project costs, and escalate appropriate risks and issues. You will coordinate the Program Increments, Planning, Sprints and report back to management You will identify improvement and generate ideas on new methodologies Success Factors: Collaborate with business, Info security and IT partners in specifying their needs and create continuous feedback loops that allows the team to better understand their problems Lead the team to deliver business needs and assist in establishing requirements by leveraging knowledge of Agile best practices In partnership with Product Owners and Team Members, align to product backlog prioritization and ensure successful delivery of prioritized work with the product team Work with necessary documentation like RAID logs, meeting minutes, and capacity worksheets Host regular sprint ceremonies to monitor day-to-day activities of the product team, ensure work is progressing as planned, and remove impediments to delivery Actively monitor project scope and health to identify, track, and communicate potential risks, action items, assumptions, issues, decisions, and dependencies in delivery Acts as a liaison with internal team members, as well as, across external teams to define cross-team dependencies for user stories, coordinate project deliverables and set expectations to ensure deadlines are clearly communicated, understood, and executed upon Have a very strong command of Agile speak. Be able to clearly articulate thoughts and align team members and stakeholders to the end-goal Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies Document and communicate project status and strategic recommendations to stakeholders, team members and senior management on a regular basis; escalate issues accordingly via the appropriate channels. Consistently manage expectations

Skills

agile scrum master,Sprint Planning,Project Management,safe

About UST

UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.

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