Scrum Master

Overview

The Scrum Master guides and coaches teams in Scrum and Agile practices, boosting team effectiveness, resolving impediments, and operationalizing processes so development teams deliver effectively.

What you'll do

• Foster a self-organizing, empowered environment that enables teams to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget.
• Facilitate and lead Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Ensure teams adhere to the Scrum framework and agile best practices, using appropriate tools and metrics to track progress, identify bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvement.
• Foster effective communication and collaboration between cross-functional teams, product owners, and stakeholders.
• Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring shared understanding of project goals, priorities, and timelines.
• Proactively address conflicts or challenges that may hinder team performance and delivery.
• Collaboratively identify and synchronize project interdependencies across multiple teams.
• Facilitate effective resource allocation across programs.
• Drive continuous improvement of agile processes, methodologies, and tools across the organization.
• Identify and implement process enhancements to optimize efficiency, productivity, and quality of deliverables.
• Encourage innovation to foster a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• Ensure program benefits remain viable throughout the program, communicating status and date changes and actively managing dependencies.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders and manage expectations regarding project scope, timelines, and deliverables.
• Collaborate closely with product owners to prioritize backlog items and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Provide regular project status updates and communicate any risks or impediments that may impact project success.

What you'll need

• Ability to engage and empower others to use their own capabilities, fostering trust and high energy to succeed.
• Drive and energy to get the job done.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Assertive, with the ability to come up with solutions to critical situations.
• Ability to make timely decisions and take calculated risks.
• Seasoned knowledge of other Agile approaches such as XP, Kanban, Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP).
• Seasoned knowledge of the technologies used by the team.
• Ability to coordinate large teams with cross-functional dependencies.
• Proactive and organized, with the ability to work in a fast-paced team environment and provide consistent, high-quality output.
• Ability to facilitate discussions so the team considers alternative solutions or approaches and manages disagreements collaboratively.
• Ability to stimulate and relish change, adapt quickly, and see change as an opportunity.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Project Management or a related field.
• Seasoned Scrum Master experience in an ICT environment, managing software projects and working with software development teams.
• Seasoned experience in Scrum management.
• Seasoned experience of Agile concepts and principles.
• Seasoned experience as a coach and mentor in agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Seasoned experience with contemporary software development methodologies.
• Seasoned experience with widely successful Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.

Nice to have

• Relevant certifications such as SAFe Scrum Master or SAFe Advanced Scrum Master.
• Other related certifications and/or training (for example, SAFe DevOps, Implementing SAFe, etc.).

Details

• Location: Hyderabad.
• Workplace type: Hybrid.