Scrum Master

T he Team: The S&P Global Commodity Insights team seeks transformation from product to platform-centric software engineering practices in Agile development methodology . This person will play a pivotal role to ensure we adopt Agile methodology .

The Impact: This role has a broader context of major strategic initiatives to extend our market leadership, enhance customer experience, and implement next-generation software technology. In short, it represents an exciting and visible opportunity to join our team during a dynamic period of fundamental organizational and operational changes

What s in it for y ou: Great Place to Work, Good L earning C urve , E xcellent W ork C ulture, and M otivates you to Get Stuff Done.

Responsibilities:

• Coaching the team and organization to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers

• Coaching the team to get self-organized

• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization

• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel

• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving

• Facilitating to getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work

• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and streamlining information

• Shield the team from outside distractions and interferences

• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog

• Providing all support to the team using servant leadership skills whenever possible, and leading by example

• Leads team efforts in relentless improvement - Helps the team improve and take responsibility for their actions; facilitates the team retrospective

What are we Looking For?

Basic Qualifications - The candidate must have

• First level Scrum Master certification (PSM I)

• 5+ years experience playing the Scrum Master role for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory

• Worked in the SAFe environment on t hree or more Program Increments (PIs) and be aware of how their SAFe team is structured

• Capability to apply SAFe framework

• Support the team rules - These may include the rules of Scrum, Built-In Quality practices from Extreme Programming (XP), Work in Process (WIP) limits from Kanban, and any other process rules the team has agreed

• Worked with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization

• Good skills and knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency

• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach ( example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Experience with some of commonly used tools - Azure DevOps, Confluence, MS Teams, SharePoint

• Follow the Scrum values - commitment, focus, openness, respect, and courage

Preferred Qualifications - The candidate could have

• SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) certification as an added advantage