Scrum Master (5-9 yrs)

Job Description :

Primary Responsibilities :

- The Scrum Master acts as both a facilitator and a coach to the team; ensuring the Scrum framework and any organization-specific guidelines or practices are adhered to.

- Serve as a Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams, with a focus on coaching the team on agile values and principles and the ensuing practices.

- Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies like Sprint planning, Sprint reviews, Sprint retrospectives, Daily Scrum, backlog refinement, Scrum of Scrum.

- Work closely with the Engineering team to understand the product & technology and contribute to product roadmap planning, scheduling, and release management.

- Work collaboratively with stakeholders to identify and mitigate risks.

- Develop & utilize metrics to help improve the team effectiveness.

- Facilitate cross-team coordination, reaching out to the larger organization for dependency management and impediment removal.

- Plan and track the vulnerability backlog for Scrum teams based on the SLA.

- Coach development teams on the core principles of self-organization and continuous improvement.

Here's what you'll bring :

- Good understanding of Agile principles and different frameworks like Scrum, Kanban.

- A broad enterprise-wide view and understanding of software product development.

- Overall 6 to 7 years of experience in the IT industry; 2+ years experience as a Scrum Master

- Excellent facilitation skills with demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with multiple roles.

- A mindset to do what it takes to get things rolling. Inspect and adapt to circumstances trying to maximize effectiveness and efficiency.

- Strong communication & interpersonal skills and astute attention to detail.

- Ability to work with minimal supervision in a very dynamic work environment.

- Experience in Agile tools like Rally/Jira and collaboration tools like Confluence.

- Experience in a Product Enterprise working through the entire life-cycle of the product.

- Good understanding and experience in the Enterprise software development life cycle.

The following are considered a plus :

- Certification ( CSM / PMI-ACP / SAFe).

- Experience working as part of and leading teams that do CI/CD.

- Experience in a scaled agile framework (SAFe / LeSS).

- Experience and good knowledge of Cloud Computing, AWS, Data protection technologies