Chief Scrum Officer

5 days ago


Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India NielsenIQ Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Chief Scrum Officer to join our team at NielsenIQ. As a key member of our Program Management Office, you will be responsible for helping our product and technology teams drive product development adopting standard and consistent SAFe Agile practices ensuring high quality.

The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of agile frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFE, and have experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization. You will work closely with Product Leadership, Technology & Operations teams on product development roadmaps and timelines, and contribute to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.

Key Responsibilities

  • Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high-quality products.
  • Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
  • Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood, and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
  • Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
  • Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.
  • Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
  • Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
  • Drives continuous improvements through metrics.
  • Escalates issues in a timely and appropriate manner.
  • Works closely with Product Leadership, Technology & Operations teams on product development roadmaps and timelines.

Qualifications

  • Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.
  • Deep understanding of agile frameworks - Scrum, Kanban, SAFE etc.
  • Has deep understanding of software development life cycle.
  • Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques.
  • Planning and problem-solving with the product owner and delivery teams.
  • Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
  • Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of software development experience in an Agile environment with 3+ years of Scrum Master experience.
  • Hands on experience in Jira and other ADLM tools.
  • Preferred to have SAFe certifications ( either of SSM, SASM, RTE , SA etc )

About Us

NielsenIQ is the world's leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. We empower our Scrum Masters to drive results and change, and we are looking for motivated, analytical, dynamic candidates with a passion for data and technology to join our Program Management Office.

What We Offer

  • Flexible working environment
  • Volunteer time off
  • LinkedIn Learning
  • Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)


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