Scrum Master

Role & responsibilities

It's a role that perfectly blends soft skills like leadership, coaching, and conflict resolution with some technical know-how.

Scrum Management & Coaching:

• Enabling development teams to perform at their highest level through self-organization.
• Scrum coach and an advocate for facilitating Agile development
• Organize and facilitate all scrums events and ceremonies.
• Promote continuous improvements with key objective to increase efficiency, productivity and velocity.
• Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters experimentation, creativity & innovation.
• Experience with teaching technical teams basic to advanced Agile concepts including Epic and User Story creation, Scrum, best practices and tools.
• Coordinate and monitor the Scrum process from initiation through delivery to ensure the release is developed by the deadline and within budget
• Outline and prioritize work based on program initiatives and business value.
• Coach the team on how to plan work into enabling features and stories along program increments and sprints
• Remove impediments by facilitating collaboration, conflict resolution & transparency.

Backlog Management:

• Backlog Management and refinement in collaboration with PO (or customer) and Engineering teams.

Communication:

• Track and communicate sprint plan, goals to internal, external stakeholders and leadership team through KPIs and metrics.

Project Management:

• Effectively manage end-to-end software projects including planning, execution and delivery
• Ensure Risk management through identification & mitigation strategies whilst ensuring transparency with stakeholders and leadership team.

Onshore coordination:

• Onshore / Offshore coordination and handshake of responsibilities and deliverables.

Preferred candidate profile

Qualifications:

• Minimum 8+ years of experience as Scrum Master with software development managing medium to large / complex projects with 3+ years in senior roles.
• Bachelor's/Master's in CS, IT, Engineering, or related fields.
• Experience as Scrum Master with in-depth knowledge of delivering projects to the Customer.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kansan, Waterfall and other project management methodologies
• Experience with Agile (& some DevOps) tools like JIRA, Confluence, Gitlab/bitbucket, etc.
• Strong understanding of software / application development processes and some understanding of DevOps practices and principles
• Strong leadership, problem solving & communications skills with Can Do attitude
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification

Perks and benefits

• Flexible working hours.
• Travel the World with our sponsored trip.
• Enjoy Free snacks & drinks every day on the House.
• Stay Healthy with Employee offered Health Insurance.
• CSR & Team building activities.
• Chance to move to USA
• And plenty more benefits!