Scrum Master & Release Manager

Years of Experience: 10 years.

Work Location: Chennai.

About The Role And What You Will Do.

We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master / Release Manger to our dynamic team.

The role is a combination of two fields of expertise:.

Managing and guiding our scrum teams, ensuring adherence to agile principles, and driving continuous improvement.

Managing the planning, scheduling, coordinating, and overall coordination of software releases across multiple applications and platforms.

The ideal candidate has a passion for agile methodologies and possess strong leadership and communication skills, required to be successful collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth deployment, minimize disruptions, and guarantee high-quality releases.

To thrive in this role, you'll need to embody the following qualities:.

Manage and support multiple scrum teams, ensuring they are productive and high performing.

Demonstrate agile principles by establishing frameworks & process that are uniformly adopted by all scrum teams.

Coach team members on agile practices, fostering an environment of continuous learning and improvement.

Ability to build a productive environment where team members ?ownthe product and enjoy working on it.

Guide teams to higher scrum maturity and ensure adherence to process and adoption of JIRA.

Establish metrics to drive continuous improvement (Velocity, Burndown, Estimation).

Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily standups, etc ).

Ensure and enable effective collaboration across scrum teams, product management, business stakeholders.

Release Planning and Coordination:.

Develop release plans and schedules in collaboration with development, QA, and operations teams.

Coordinate release activities across various teams, ensuring alignment with project timelines and business objectives.

Oversee the execution of the release process, including code deployment, configuration, and environment setup.

Manage the deployment of software releases to testing, staging, and production environments.

Ensure that all release artifacts are appropriately versioned and stored.

Identify potential risks and issues related to releases and develop mitigation strategies.

Troubleshoot and resolve release-related problems, working closely with development and operations teams.

Ensure proper rollback procedures are in place and tested.

Serve as the primary point of contact for release-related inquiries and communications.

Provide regular status updates and release progress reports to stakeholders.

Document release processes, policies, and procedures for future reference.

Analyze release metrics and feedback to identify areas for process improvement.

Implement best practices for release management to enhance efficiency and reduce errors.

Stay updated with industry trends and advancements in release management tools and techniques.

Your background should ideally include:.

At least 8 years of experience working with engineering teams in the role of ScrumMaster, Release management, software development, or a related role.

A clear understanding of the Scrum/Agile process Demonstrates in-expertise in Agile methodology and best practices of Scrum.

Must have proven ability to use Scrum and broader principles of Agile to achieve incremental improvement of product and process.

Expertise in Scrum Artefacts: Product Backlog grooming, User Story Mapping, Story Point estimation (sizing), Velocity planning, Maintaining and using burn-down charts to drive consistency and predictability in driving releases.

Create Definitions of Ready before accepting user stories into a Sprint.

Must be able to define Definitions of Done for user stories to be shippable.

Proven track record of managing complex software releases in an agile environment.

Proficiency in release management tools (e g , Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, GitLab CI/CD).

Bonus points for experience collaborating within a global context, engaging with colleagues across Asia, Europe, and the US.

Bonus points for experience within the Supply Chain Traceability and Fashion industries.

Your style of working should reflect:.

You servant as a leader and are experienced in negotiate, say No, or go the extra mile to help the team move forward.

The ability to strike a balance between quality and speed, thriving in a fast-paced environment influenced by an experimental mindset.

Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.

Exceptional communication skills to effectively convey insights and ideas.

Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Fluency in English.

About TrusTrace.

Founded in 2016, TrusTrace offers a market-leading platform for supply chain traceability and compliance, enabling brands and suppliers around the world to standardise how supply chain and material traceability data is captured, digitised and shared.

TrusTrace is leading global-scale traceability programs for many of the worlds largest brands.

The company is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with additional offices in India, France and the US.

What do we offer.

The opportunity to drive change and break new grounds to enhance and strengthen the visual identity of a growing global scale-up company, committed to accelerate sustainable transformation in fashion.

To be part of a great multicultural, multilingual team.

A centrally located office in Coimbatore and Chennai.

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