Scrum Master

Delhi/Mumbai

Full-Time

**Reporting to**:Krishna

**Team Size**: 10

**About the Company**:
Lightstorm is building infrastructure for hyperscale networking in South Asia and Southeast Asia to accelerate the region’s growth and spur innovation in the digital economy. We are pioneer in building a first-of-its-kind utility-grade resilient fibre network, SmartNet, in several countries in the region. A trusted partner of several Fortune 500 companies, Lightstorm is creating a robust foundation of digital infrastructure to create new sources of value and differentiation for businesses.

We are a carrier-neutral telecom infrastructure platform set up by I Squared Capital, a global infrastructure
- focused private equity fund.
- SmartNet by Lightstorm Telecom Designed to be first of its kind in India is fibre-based network, connecting top seven cities in India.
- SmartNet will connect >80% of all current & future Multi Tenant Data Centre locations, all Cable Landing Stations, all Internet Exchanges and all current and future CDN locations.
- SmartNet Metro Network Topology - Linear Point-to-Point Mesh Architecture to ensure low latency and high network availability.
- SmartNet is being progressively launched in first half of 2021 across India and second half in other emerging Asia markets, mostly with large pre-booked capacities by global fortune 500 companies.
- Lightstorm Telecom is 100% owned SPV set up by a US based global infrastructure-focused PE fund.

**Our Mission**:
The mission of Lightstorm is to create a digital native and market leading network platform based business, built on asset acquisitions roll up and business transformation strategy.

**1**
Linearity
Point to Point - Not ring based - Grid mesh Least count route KM’s fromP2P Latency guaranteed

**2**
Availibility
Utility grade national fiber (non telco) -based on gas/ oil pipeline. HV transmission. Railways grid. Ulta-high availability 99.9%

**3**
Services
service transparency at wavelengths. Glass pane for monitoring - Self-service portal - Only cloud bandwidth services

**3**
Programmability
Bandwidth on demand - Application-aware latency services - zero-touch provisioning - Optical VPN, Self-service portal - Ability to wholesale white
- labelled offerings with own band - API Intergration to network SON.

**Role Responsibilities and key Accountabilities**:
Overall, this role exists for Scrum master who will drive the deliverables of product as per product
manager’s requirements and planning.
Role/ responsibilities include:

- Guiding the team on self organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum
frameworks
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher
levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and
organization.
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right
personnel to remove the impediment.
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of
blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating
information
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and
maintaining the product backlog.
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and
leading by example

**Key Accountabilities/ KPIs**:

- Delivery of project/product on time
- Building strong devops process and culture
- Keeping resource engaged and motivated

**Skills/ Experience**:

- A total of 8-10 years of experience with minimum 2 years of practicing agile project
management
- Second level Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM I or PSM II)
- Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD,
TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
- Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team

the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques,
numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs,etc)
- Industry preference, if any
- Team Management experience required: Yes
- Education qualification - BE/BTECH from any discipline
- Skills required
- Technical skills - Preferebly to work on projects involving microservice based
technology/architecture, devops
- Functional skills - Have strong analytical skills. Experience in CRM/Billing domain is
an added advantage
- Business skills - Preferred, not mandatory
- Soft-skills/ behavioral - Strong interpersonal and communication skills.