Senior Scrum master

As a Scrum Master, your role typically involves programming and leading a set of team members. You would be responsible for the commitments of your team in terms of time, effort and quality of work. You would also be responsible for their performance evaluation. You would likely be a part of a larger offshore team and are expected to work collaboratively with your peers onsite and offshore to deliver milestone/sprint-based deliverables. This role predominantly is a technology leadership role and hence it is essential that you exhibit deep technical knowledge and the empathy towards your subordinates.

Typical activities that would be expected are

• Program and deliver as per the scope provided by the delivery leads/onsite managers.
  
• Actively participate in the discussions/scrum meetings to comprehend and understand your scope of work and deliver as per your estimates/commitments
  
• Proactively reach out to others when you need assistance and to showcase your work
  
• Work independently on your assigned work
  
• Manage a set of team member in understanding their estimates, monitoring their quality of work and ensuring as a team you meet the project deadlines
  
• Actively guide the team members and up skill them
  
• Assign KRAs, monitor and evaluate team members job performance.
  
  
  Requirements

  Key Responsibilities
  

  Coach and mentor other Scrum Masters, and potentially
  overseeing multiple teams
  
  

  Serve as a Scrum Master for a cross-functional
  delivery team (onshore & offshore), facilitating the experimentation of newtechniques and ideas prior to scaling them across the digital deliverypractice.
  
  

  Lead efforts to improve the overall Agile process,
  identifying areas for optimization and implementing changes across teams or theorganization.
  
  

  Proactively manage risks within the product backlog
  and oversee release cycles across various solutions and ecosystem components.
  
  

  Collaborate with Tech Leads to plan project
  checkpoints, allocate resources, and manage budgets effectively.
  
  

  Hold the cross-functional teams accountable for
  developing and delivering the approved projects within budget, timeline, andscope.
  
  

  Collaborate with global/ regional program leads to
  deploy critical initiatives related to APAC markets.
  
  

  Work across business & technology functions to
  understand requirements, constraints, trade-offs & interdependencies.
  
  

  Use data to measure the efficiency of technology
  delivery, operations, benchmark metrics, perform analysis and identifyimprovements.
  
  

  
  
  

  Basic Qualifications
  
  

  Diploma or higher certification in any discipline
  (Business, IT, Information Systems, Social Sciences, Economics, etc.)
  
  

  Minimum 5 yearsexperience in various project
  delivery functions with at least 3 years in agile project management /technical delivery leadership roles.
  
  

  Experience with leading scrum teams utilizing Agile or
  other project management methodologies with shown success.
  
  

  Strong, demonstrable facilitation skills, with an
  interest in building bridges between teams across multiple locations (onshoreand offshore) and cultures.
  
  

  Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle,
  including continuous integration and deployment best practices.
  
  

  Familiar with Agile Delivery Management tools (e.g.
  Atlassian Suite) and agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, XP)
  
  

  Experience working in a highly matrixed organization
  is important for success.
  
  

  
  
  

  Preferred Experiences and Qualifications:
  
  

  Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or Project Management
  Professional (PMP)
  
  

  Experience in Agile measurement techniques and in
  establishing key metrics for tracking team effectiveness and velocity
  
  

  Experience leading teams through change; managing
  communications, change management and enablement
  
  

  Prior hands-on software development experiences in a
  team setting is a plus
  
  

  
  
  Benefits

  • Participate in several organization wide programs, including a compulsory innovation based Continuous improvement program providing you platforms to showcase your talent.
    
    
  • Insurance benefits for the self and the spouse including maternity benefits.
    
  • Ability to work on many products as the organization is focused on working with several ISVs.
    
  • Fortnightly sessions to understand the directions of each function and an opportunity to interact with the entire hierarchy of the organization.
    
  • Celebrations are a common place - physical or virtual. Participate in several games with your coworkers.
    
  • Voice your opinions on topics other than your work - Chimera Talks.
    
  • Hybrid working models - Remote + office
    
    
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