Scrum Master

• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Help removing impediments, safeguarding the team and framework, and optimize the teams ability to self-organize.
• Identifying continuous improvement opportunities and best practices to progress the work of the squad.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
• Maintaining and updating squad process metrics and artifacts to ensure accurate and transparent communications to Product Owner and other stakeholders.
• Helping your Product owner to manage and prioritize work through the backlog by reviewing and managing backlog items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate and ensuring work is appropriately balanced across team members and that all work is captured within the backlog.
• Work with the Product owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information.
• Maintain awareness of the roles within the framework and identify gaps that would lead to anti-patterns.
• Remove impediments external to the team and guide the team to an optimum, sustainable velocity.
• Leads, coordinates, facilitates and/or guides all sprint ceremonies, depending on the meeting. These ceremonies include the daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint demo, sprint retrospective and backlog refinement.

• experience as a scrum master or SDM Role.
• Conversant in Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile Frameworks.
• Familiarity with software development or technology infrastructure.
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology strategies.
• Strong communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills; passionate about continuous learning to help the team evolve.
• Has a deep understanding of change management and demonstrated ability to support wider organization changes.
• Creates space for open discussions that can surface various viewpoints and can choose from multiple tools and techniques to reach a conclusion.
• Is a servant leader who fosters self-organization and a culture of ownership and accountability on the team.
• Ability to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to serve the squad.
• Has a challenger mindset and passion to challenge status quo to find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas: encourages team to experiment.

• Software development knowledge
• Understanding of distributed systems and event driven architectures
• Knowledge of SQL, NoSQL, and distributed databases
• Experience with automation and CI/CD tools and practices

About Virtusa

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.

Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.

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