Scrum Master Lead

Position Summary

MetLife established a Global capability center (MGCC) in India to scale and mature Data & Analytics, technology and operations capabilities in a cost-effective manner and make MetLife future ready. The center is integral to Global Technology and Operations with a focus to protect & build MetLife IP, promote reusability and drive experimentation and innovation. The Data & Analytics team in India mirrors the Global D&A team with an objective to drive business value through trusted data, scaled capabilities, and actionable insights. The operating models consists of business aligned data officers- US, Japan and LatAm & Corporate functions enabled by enterprise COEs- data engineering, data governance and data science

Role Value Proposition:

Scrum lead plays a critical role in driving end-to-end agile delivery within the data and analytics life cycle and significantly contributes to production grade data and analytics solutions. The role requires one to demonstrate agile delivery expertise, stakeholder management, and ability to align business priorities with execution. Besides contributing in individual capacity to lead multiple agile teams, this role also leads and develops Data and Analytics talent

Job Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including PI & iteration planning, daily stand-ups, ART sync, Demo's, retrospectives, and iteration reviews.
• Drive alignment across teams, ensuring dependencies, risks and blockers are identified and resolved
• Partner with Product Owners & key stakeholders to maintain and prioritize the backlog.
• Track and report key delivery metrics (velocity, burndown, throughput)
• Ensure adherence to Agile principles and organizational standards
• Collaborate with multiple partners from Business, Technology, Operations and D&A capabilities (Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Modeling, Data Architecture, Data science, DevOps, BI & insights)
• Independently lead agile delivery, planning estimation and execution
• Provide people leadership: coach, develop and engage talent

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Education

• Bachelors degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent educational qualification

Technical Skills and Experience

• 10-12+ years of relevant experience
• Understanding the Data & Analytics lifecycle and Agile delivery models.
• Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• Agile tools such as Azure DevOps.
• Problem-solving, communication, negotiation, conflict resolution skills
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Storytelling, Partner, Stakeholder engagement experience
• Provide people leadership: coach, develop and engage talent.