Scrum Master

Role & responsibilities

• Facilitate agile ceremonies including sprint planning, sprint review, retrospectives, and daily standup.
• Create a forum for discussing vision, goals, and Product Backlog items amongst the team.
• Identify, manage, and help mitigate issues and risks, with particular emphasis on timely removal of impediments for the team and/or directing obstacles to appropriate owners for quick resolution.
• Ensure that proper documentation (i.e., program vision statement, program backlog, program roadmap, release plan, sprint backlog, and increments) is prioritized and added to the teams backlog of work.
• Report on the teams sprint cadence, velocity and burn down chart against the overall plan and remaining backlog.
• Compliance with SLF policies and procedures for delivery and implementation
• Ensure the cross functional team are working collaboratively and cohesively across all disciplines product, design, engineering, testing to deliver upon the product vision in a timely and high quality.
• Coach the development team and help lead and ensure the agile mindset is fully adopted and understood.
• Assess and coach the team to higher levels of performance, focus, commitment, respect, and openness while tracking acceleration metrics.
• Facilitate efforts with the support and implementation teams on how to integrate agile methodologies into a Waterfall environment.
• Encourage an environment of open communication and collaborative problem solving and where the impact of mistakes can be minimized through early detection as well as making them into learning opportunities.
• Drive adoption of Scrum / Agile methodologies for outlining and delivering key objectives and influence stakeholders from a project, product, and cultural perspective.
• Train & hands-on demonstrate Agile concepts & use of artifacts such as user stories, impact maps, story maps, big visible charts, planning, estimation, governance sessions, etc.
• Builds a high performing team managing intrapersonal conflicts.

Preferred candidate profile

• Scrum Master with 8-11 years of experience, driving the scrum process including helping the team focus on daily Sprint goals.
• 3+ years of experience in project management / people management is an asset.
• Strong organizational, multi-tasking and time management skills to work effectively in a changing environment balancing operations and project delivery.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, including ability to effectively address any issues in collaboration with others as appropriate; ability to proactively identify and prevent potential problems; ability to develop problem solving skills among direct reports and other team members as appropriate.
• Exposure in handling more than one agile team is preferred.
• Ability to report on the teams progress using agile methodology.
• Well versed in navigating complex organizational structures and capability to develop productive working relationships with internal stakeholders across the region and globally
• Exposure to modern technologies and methodologies like Agile, Mobile, APIs, DevOps, Salesforce etc.