Scrum Master/it Pm

**About Us**:
**Thoucentric is the Consulting arm of Xoriant**, a prominent digital engineering services company with 5000+ employees. We are headquartered in Bangalore with presence across multiple locations in India, US, UK, Singapore & Australia Globally.

As the Consulting business of **Xoriant**, We help clients with Business Consulting, Program & Project Management, Digital Transformation, Product Management, Process & Technology Solutioning and Execution including Analytics & Emerging Tech areas cutting across functional areas such as Supply Chain, Finance & HR, Sales & Distribution across US, UK, Singapore and Australia. Our unique consulting framework allows us to focus on execution rather than pure advisory. We are working closely with marquee names in the global consumer & packaged goods (CPG) industry, new age tech and start-up ecosystem. Xoriant (Parent entity) started in 1990 and is a Sunnyvale, CA headquartered digital engineering firm with offices in the USA, Europe, and Asia. Xoriant is backed by ChrysCapital, a leading private equity firm. Our strengths are now combined with Xoriant’s capabilities in AI & Data, cloud, security and operations services proven for 30 years.

We have been certified as "**Great Place to Work"** by AIM and have been ranked as "50 Best Firms for Data Scientists to Work For".

We have an experienced consulting team of over 450+ world-class business and technology consultants based across six global locations, supporting clients through their expert insights, entrepreneurial approach and focus on delivery excellence. We have also built point solutions and products through Thoucentric labs using AI/ML in the supply chain space.

**Desired Skill sets**:
Project Management, JIRA, Agile, Stakeholder Management, Scrum

**The Scrum Master will**:

- Understand the general principles of Agile as outlined in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and be fully aligned to those principles
- Uphold the framework and integrity of Agile Scrum practices
- Mentor and coach the teams on Agile methodology and Scrum values and process
- Coach outside groups affected by the initiative to help them understand how Scrum works and how their own work-groups may be affected
- Provide servant leadership, and ensure accountability
- Ensure transparency, inspection and adaption
- Shield the team from external interference to avoid distractions from meeting commitments
- Lead the team to reflect and retrospect to improve the process continuously, thus enabling long-term productivity and quality
- Provide regular feedback to the team, and celebrate the team’s successes and small wins
- Ensure the team does not become complacent, and the passion for continuous improvement remains in-tact
- Facilitate PI (Program Increment) and Sprint planning processes, as well as all other Scrum ceremonies, and empower team commitment to PI and Sprint delivery
- Initiate / Participate in cross organization dependencies for/from other Scrum teams, helping navigate complex delivery challenges, allowing for optimized delivery flow
- Monitor and track PI milestones, and facilitate mitigation of issues and risks
- Collaborate with the teams to identify and resolve problems, removing impediments/barriers for the team, and escalating to the RTE as needed
- Monitor the effectiveness of Scrum team processes and performance, and collaborate with the teams on changes and improvements

**Requirements**:
**Skills/ Qualifications**:
**The Scrum Master should have**:

- A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required
- A minimum of four years’ experience working with and coaching Scrum teams
- A minimum of four years of relevant Information Technology experience
- Prior experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies and Agile at enterprise scale
- Certification(s) in Agile methodologies (SAFe, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSP, SA, SASM or equivalent) preferred
- Strong facilitation and collaboration skills
- Strong communication skills

Strong understanding of and demonstrated experience in using JIRA

**Benefits**:
**What a Consulting role at Thoucentric will offer you?**
- Opportunity to define your career path and not as enforced by a manager
- A great consulting environment with a chance to work with Fortune 500 companies and startups alike.
- A dynamic but relaxed and supportive working environment that encourages personal development.
- Be part of One Extended Family. We bond beyond work - sports, get-togethers, common interests etc. Work in a very enriching environment with Open Culture, Flat Organization and Excellent Peer Group.
- Be part of the exciting Growth Story of Thoucentric

**At Thoucentric, we work on various problem statements.**
- The most popular ones are
- ** Building capabilities**that address a market need, **basis our ongoing research efforts**
- ** Solving a specific use case**for a current or potential client **based on challenges on-ground**
- ** Developing new systems**that help be a better employer and a bett