Scrum Master

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Are you ready to transform the way businesses pay and get paid? Bottomline is a global leader in business payments and cash management, with over 35 years of experience and moving more than $16 trillion in payments annually. We're looking for passionate individuals to join our team and help drive impactful results for our customers. If you're dedicated to delighting customers and promoting growth and innovation - we want you on our team!

Position Title: Senior Scrum Master, PMO

Location: Bengaluru, India

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 10+ years

Overview: We are seeking an experienced Senior Scrum Master to join our dynamic team. This role requires a highly skilled and motivated professional who has extensive experience in agile practices and methodologies, with a proven track record of facilitating successful sprints, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and delivering high-quality outcomes. As a Senior Scrum Master, you will play a key role in driving the adoption of Agile processes, coaching teams, and ensuring that our delivery process remains efficient and focused on meeting the needs of stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Agile Facilitation: Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, sprint retrospectives, sprint demos, and backlog grooming sessions.
• Sprint Planning & Capacity Management: Lead sprint planning sessions, ensuring that user stories are well-defined, prioritized, and aligned with the team’s capacity. Help the team understand scope, dependencies, and timelines.
• Backlog Grooming: Collaborate closely with Product Owners to refine and prioritize the backlog, ensuring that the team is always working on the most valuable items.
• Continuous Improvement: Facilitate and encourage continuous improvement through sprint retrospectives, identifying opportunities to enhance team productivity, efficiency, and collaboration.
• JIRA & Confluence Management: Manage the team’s work in JIRA, ensuring that tasks, stories, and epics are properly documented, tracked, and updated. Use Confluence for documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Metrics & Reporting: Track and report sprint progress, velocity, and team performance. Provide visibility into the team’s progress to stakeholders and ensure that goals and objectives are met within the agreed timelines.
• Demoing Deliverables: At the end of each sprint, ensure the team demonstrates the completed work to stakeholders. Be able to present work in a clear, concise, and impactful manner.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with Product Owners, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on sprint goals, product vision, and timelines.
• Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify risks, issues, and roadblocks, and work with the team to resolve them. Escalate issues when necessary to keep projects on track.
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience: 10+ years of experience working in Agile environments with a strong focus on Scrum methodology.
• Certifications: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or equivalent Agile certifications are preferred.
• Tools Expertise: Extensive experience using JIRA and Confluence for tracking and managing agile projects. Technical proficiency with Atlassian (JIRA and Confluence)
• Agile Knowledge: Deep understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and best practices for Agile delivery.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen focus on resolving challenges that impede team progress.
• Team Collaboration: Proven experience in creating and maintaining a collaborative and self-organizing team environment.
  
  

Desirable Skills

• Advanced Agile Techniques: Experience with advanced Agile techniques such as Lean, DevOps, or Continuous Delivery.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to work with cross-functional teams, including development, QA, UX/UI, and operations.
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe): Experience with SAFe or other scaling frameworks is a plus.
• Adaptability: Ability to work in fast-paced, evolving environments while maintaining focus on team objectives.
  
  

We welcome talent at all career stages and are dedicated to understanding and supporting additional needs. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an inclusive and open environment for everyone.