Senior Scrum master

Job Description

Responsibilities Scrum Master Guide the squad focusing on creating high value releases. Partner with Product Owners to ensure strategy and execution alignment. Facilitate (and be primarily responsible for) squad(s) rituals & key events. Drive continuous improvement by coaching Squads in SAFe Agile methodologies to maximize efficiency and self-improvement. Identify, escalate, and help find resolutions to Squad obstacles. Assist with decision-making by facilitating feature estimation by teams. Provide progress status and escalate impediments on a regular basis. Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks. Ensure Squad transparency by setting-up relevant KPIs and visual management on backlog, risks, planning, etc. using suitable tools and techniques. Ensure the Squads respond to required changes and new unplanned requests in an effective manner. SAFe Implementation & Agile Transformation Drive Agile transformations by implementing SAFe frameworks tailored to both software and hardware development. Coach and mentor leadership, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Agile teams to ensure effective adoption of Agile methodologies. Define and implement Agile practices that enable hardware-software co-development within the SAFe framework. Coaching & Mentoring Provide hands-on coaching to team members across various ARTs (Agile Release Trains), Solution Trains, and portfolios. Develop Agile competency across teams by leading training sessions on SAFe principles, Lean Portfolio Management, PI Planning, and Agile execution. Guide teams on WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First) prioritization, backlog management, PI planning, and execution to align development with business goals. Experience SAFe Certified Scrum Master & Agile Deployment Leader with 10+ years experience with expertise in software development, project management, and agile methodologies. Experience in the development of roadmaps, features, and releases for PI readiness by collaborating with the product owners and product managers. Run Scrum and Scrum of Scrum meetings on a daily basis and deliver new features and enhancements alongside the dev team. Planned and participated in roadmap Program Increment (PI) planning over short-, medium-, and long-term horizons, and executed the plans with the dev team to meet the targets on time. Created a community of practice for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches to drive standardization in Agile practices to improve the efficiency of team and program events such as PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, Sprint, and Systems Demos etc. SAFe Agile Practitioner and Agile deployment. Qualifications Experience in software development or IT project management. Advanced SAFe Agile certification will be a plus (e.g., SAFe Program Consultant, SAFe Release Train Engineer). Knowledge of other Agile frameworks (e.g., Kanban, Lean). 10+ years of proven experience in managing scrum teams with a focus on cloud and IoT based projects