Scrum Master - Bengaluru, India - Akkodis

Akkodis

Verified Company

Bengaluru, India

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

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Description

Job Summary:

As a Scrum Master you will lead one or more Scrum teams or manage medium to large technology projects across multiple cross-functional teams, for the Global Digital Distribution portfolio of Technology projects (includes Distribution, Marketing, Data and Client Communications platforms).

You will be responsible for ensuring Scrum Teams / Project Teams are high performing with respect to the selected execution methodology (Agile/Scrum, waterfall or other iterative methodologies).

You will own all aspects of the project definition process including facilitating and capturing the business and technology inputs to develop business cases, reviewing with stakeholders, shepherding through the enterprise governance process, and selecting the execution methodology.

You will also be called upon to be an active contributor in driving adoption and continuous improvement of Agile/Scrum across the organization

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

Lead day to day execution of one or more scrum teams or project teams
Acts as the single voice to the business and technical community on behalf of the team.
Facilitate release and sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, driving continuous improvement and effective stakeholder engagement
Facilitate sprint planning sessions and provide sprint commitment updates to business via status reporting as well as stakeholder review sessions
Work with Product Owner to understand, organize and prioritize the product back log
Assist development team and Product Owner to refine product functionality and product back log, proposing possible approaches or solutions to accelerate delivery and/or ensure product continues to meet business case objectives
Identify and remove impediments (risks and issues) impacting release and program level teams
Communicate progress as required (weekly / monthly status reporting and other enterprise governance exercises / checkpoints), raising risks and issues to Product Owner and other key stakeholders
Shield team from external influences not relevant to current sprint work
Collaborate and coordinate with other Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Delivery Managers and Domain Managers in a multiple agile team environment
Facilitate technical discussions with Architects and Developers to resolve technical challenges the team encounters
Coordinate UAT testing with end users
Work with the Delivery Manager to introduce and continuously improve delivery best practices, (e.g.

XP Engineering practices such as:
automated testing, refactoring, pair programming, test driven development, and continuous integration).Collaborate with other Scrum Masters, Program Managers, Project Managers and Domain Managers across the enterprise to adopt, standardize and document delivery best practices

Competencies for Success:

Strong team leadership skills, driving effective team operating models and improving team maturity levels in understanding process and increasing productivity via influence rather than direct authority
Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills including executive stakeholder management
Consulting experience highly preferred
Strong change management experience
Experience leading the change from waterfall methodologies towards agile methodologies and practices
Experience working with globally distributed teams highly preferred
Experience leading teams consisting of employees, contractors and