SCRUM Master

SUMMARY:
We are recruiting for a Scrum Master!

POSITION INFO:

Main Responsibilities

• Establishes and manages team cadence throughout delivery lifecycle, facilitation of all scrum ceremonies
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Stakeholder management and playback, including product owners, executive sponsors and other external teams
• Work closely with leadership to define product and establish product backlog. Owns delivery roadmap.
• Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies, managing risks and issues.
• Assist with bedding down BI capability operating model (People and process)
• Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
• Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Manage each project’s scope and timeline
• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
• Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
• Be the point of contact for external communications as well as prepare and present status reports to stakeholders.
• Coach team members in Agile frameworks
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
• Help teams implement changes effectively
• Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity

What will make you successful in this role?

• Bachelor''s degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
• Certified Scrum Master
• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar role.
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artefacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
• Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban etc. to deliver solutions would be essential
• Leadership and management experience. Excellent people and project management skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Knowledge of various toolsets such as SAP Hana Studio, SAP Data Services, Informatica Data Quality Suite, Cloudera big data storage and Microsoft Power BI will be advantageous.
• Experience in a Dev Ops environment and leading the development automation
• Hands-on experience with software delivery life cycle and Agile/Scrum delivery management
• Experience in project management/Team lead roles mandatory.
• Experience in delivering BI products preferable

Qualification And Experience

• Degree with 5 to 6 years related experience.

Knowledge And Skills

• Knowledge of scrum principles
• Product development process knowledge
• Agile methodology
• Sprint methodology and project management
• Reporting and Administration
• Personal Attributes
• Interpersonal savvy - Contributing through others
• Decision quality - Contributing through others
• Optimises work processes - Contributing through others
• Plans and aligns - Contributing through others

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