Sr. Scrum Master

Department: Information Technology

Location: APAC-India-IT Delivery Center Hyderabad

Description

• Leadership and Coordination: Lead and coordinate the functional and Agile aspects of projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Requirement Gathering and Solution Design: Work closely with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business requirements, and design functional solutions.
• Facilitation and Team Support: Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, support the development team, and remove impediments.
• Stakeholder Management and Communication: Act as a liaison between the development team and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment of expectations.
• Progress Tracking and Process Improvement: Track and report on the team's progress, identify and implement process improvements, and ensure functional solutions meet quality standards.
  
  

Role expectations

• 10+ years of Consulting experience/Scum master or relevant industry experience
• Be a servant leader: You receive as much satisfaction from facilitating others' success as your own.
• Remove impediments: You do everything in your power to remove obstacles that are preventing the team from accomplishing its Sprint goals.
• Radiate information: You make sure that all information needed to ensure the team's progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself (e.g. backlogs, burndown/up charts, etc.)
• Support the Product Owner: You work to assist the Product Owner, through communicating updates and removing impediments, assisting with backlog and release plan maintenance, etc.
• Facilitate creativity and empowerment for the development team: You foster an environment where creativity and empowerment can flourish.
• Improve the team's engineering practices and tools as needed: You make sure teams have the tools and know-how they need to succeed.
• Communicate, communicate, communicate. You ensure that everyone—the Product Owner, the team, and various other stakeholders—are always up-to-speed.
• Act as a Scrum Master for 2+ Agile teams simultaneously.
• Provide leadership, direction and coaching to the team by encouraging them to adopt and mature good Scrum processes according to the Scrum Guide.
• Create an environment whereby the team is motivated, self-organizing and self-sufficient.
• Organize and facilitate effective Scrum meetings: backlog grooming, Sprint planning, daily Scrum, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective.
• Encourage your teams to routinely inspect and adapt.
• Assist the team in establishing a consistent and predictable team level cadence (predictable velocity)
• Identify and facilitate the removal of team impediments and escalate as appropriate.
• Work with and coach Product Owners to develop, manage, and continuously groom the team's product backlog.
• In partnership with the Product Owner, track and communicate to Stakeholders information such as team velocity, Sprint/release progress, impediments, team successes, etc.
• In coordination with Project Managers, facilitate cross-team coordination and collaboration when projects require it.
• Assist Product Owners and Project Managers with planning and grooming activities.
  
  

What We're Looking For

• Leadership and Coordination: Lead and coordinate the functional and Agile aspects of projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Requirement Gathering and Solution Design: Work closely with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business requirements, and design functional solutions.
• Facilitation and Team Support: Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, support the development team, and remove impediments.
• Stakeholder Management and Communication: Act as a liaison between the development team and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment of expectations.
• Progress Tracking and Process Improvement: Track and report on the team's progress, identify and implement process improvements, and ensure functional solutions meet quality standards.
  
  

Complementary Skills

• Salesforce or CRM SaaS Solutions experience
• Agile Project Management
• Scrum Master Certified
• SDLC Scrum Process knowledge
  
  

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