SCRUM Master

About Client

This requirement is for a global technology product company. They have flagship products on various domains like Retail, Financial, Travel, Healthcare, Hospitality, Entertainment etc,. Their headquarter is in US and having offices in more than 100 countries. They are market leaders in many domains.

What You'll Do

• Play a key role as a Scrum Master developing client’s Activate Enterprise product that will serve several of our major banking customers in the Financial Services industry. Guiding a local team, you will facilitate development of new modules, features and improvements along with issue resolution. Your key day-today responsibilities will include:
• Guiding your teams on how to use Agile/Scrum & SAFe practices and values to meet deliverables.
• Aligning your teams with the Solution Train and established common processes used by your local team and the off-shore teams, coordinating dependencies and other work items with other teams within the wider organization.
• Maintaining continuous alignment of program or project scope with strategic business goals and applying your skills in leadership, communication, influence, negotiation, cross-cultural awareness, and conflict resolution.
• Communicating program or project goals, status, requirements and deliverables to all team members, stakeholders, and sponsors.
• Coaching and developing team members as necessary to assure common understanding of the Scaled Agile, Software Development process and project goals.
• Providing feedback and suggestions for the continuous improvement of the common and local team processes.
• Establishing milestones and monitoring adherence to the Product Increment / Cadence commitments.
• Fostering communication and productive relationships with Product Managers, Product Owners, team members and other stakeholders.
• Supporting and educating the Product Manager, Product Owner and other stakeholders, especially with respect to reviewing and maintaining the product backlog.
• Providing support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.

The Skills You'll Need

• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least 2 years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory and overall min 8 years of industry experience.
• Knowledge and/or experience with Scaled Agile development.
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills