SAFe Scrum master should be able to create the environment for a team to deliver value, be highly independent, confident in their abilities and flexible enough to adapt to an evolving landscape.
Facilitate Agile Events:
Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure smooth execution.
Coach Agile Teams:
Guide teams in Agile best practices, ensuring adherence to Scrum, SAFe, or other Agile frameworks.
Remove Impediments:
Identify and address blockers that hinder team progress, collaborating with stakeholders for resolution.
Foster Collaboration:
Facilitate communication and coordination between teams, Product Owners, and leadership to ensure alignment and transparency.
Ensure Agile Maturity:
Continuously assess and improve team Agile maturity, coaching teams to self-organize and deliver value efficiently.
Support Product Ownership:
Partner with Product Owners to refine and prioritize the backlog, ensuring clarity in user stories and acceptance criteria.
Drive Continuous Improvement:
Encourage feedback loops, innovation, and iterative improvements through Inspect & Adapt workshops.
Develop Daily Performance Management Practices:
Implement and promote daily performance management techniques to track team progress, identify areas for improvement, and drive operational efficiency.
Foster Problem-Solving and Kaizen Culture:
Encourage teams to embrace a problem-solving mindset through structured approaches like root cause analysis, retrospectives, and continuous learning initiatives.
Risk & Dependency Management:
Identify risks early and work with leadership and cross-functional teams to mitigate dependencies.
Champion Agile Transformation:
Promote Agile mindset and principles across the organization, fostering a culture of agility and adaptability.
Navigate Organizational Challenges:
Manage stakeholder expectations, influence decision-making, and navigate political complexities to ensure successful Agile adoption.
Motivate Teams:
Keep the team engaged, empowered, and aligned to business goals while fostering a psychologically safe work environment.
Facilitate Critical Conversations:
Manage conflicts constructively and drive resolution through open, honest communication.
Collaborate with Engineering Teams:
Work closely with engineering teams to coach and guide them in adopting Agile Engineering practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), DevOps, and automation strategies to improve software quality and delivery efficiency.
Key Skills required:
Overall 6-9 years
experience of which minimum 5 years must have been as Scrum Master
Hands on experience as Scrum Master for SAFe projects
Hands on experience in Software Life Cycle (SDLC), waterfall, hybrid and agile projects
Experience in using SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Lean Agile frameworks.
Experience in Project Management tools such as JIRA, ADO etc.
Leading SAFe 6.0 and CSM / PSM equivalent certification.
Bachelors in Engineering / MBA.
PMP certification, Agile or SAFe certification preferred.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Excellent coaching and mentoring skills
Desired qualifications
Experience: 3 to 9 years of experience.
Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degrees are a plus.
Location and way of working
- Base location: Bangalore
- This profile involves occasional travelling to client locations OR this profile does not involve extensive travel for work.
Your role as a Consultant/Senior Consultant
We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.
In addition to living our purpose, Consultant/Senior Consultant/Manager across our organization must strive to be:
- Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation
- Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose
- Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity
- Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future
- Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders
- Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions
- Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen
- Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities
- Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization
- Effective communication Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities
- Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for
the success of engagement(s)
- Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience
- Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision
- Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems
- Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte
- Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyones valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviours and attitudes to become more inclusive.
