Scrum Master

Outer Ring Road, Devarabisanahalli Vlg Varthur Hobli, Bldg 2A, Twr 3, Phs 1, BANGALORE, IN, 560103
- OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- 4669
- Band C
- Divya Veluswamy

**Scrum Master**

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

As AXA XL continues to prioritize its comprehensive capabilities, the Senior Scrum Master plays a crucial role in upholding agile principles and values within the team. Their responsibility lies in ensuring that the team follows the agreed-upon practices and processes while working on significant technology initiatives for the organization. Their influence and expertise are essential in promoting a dynamic and adaptive approach to project management, ultimately supporting the company's strategic objectives and enhancing overall operational effectiveness.

**What you’ll be DOING**

What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Coaches the Scrum Team and removes impediments escalating when appropriate.
- Partners with the Product Owner, IT Delivery Lead and Business leadership to form execution delivery plans and manage progress and facilitates release planning.
- Partners with a Sr. Scrum Master to support and facilitate generally one Scrum Team in various functions by fostering Agile value and practices.
- make sure team adhere to Agile/WAgile principles. Provides coaching to the Scum Team(s) on how to execute the Scrum framework. Teaches team servant leadership.
- Organizes and facilitates ceremonies, identifies improvement opportunities to optimize velocity and quality while mitigating risk.
- Support the integration of agile practices within traditional project management frameworks (e.g., hybrid models).
- Facilitate alignment between teams in scaled agile frameworks (e.g., SAFe, LeSS), ensuring consistent delivery across multiple teams.
- Align sprint goals and product roadmaps with broader project milestones, ensuring seamless collaboration between iterative and sequential workstreams.
- Facilitate retrospectives at both the sprint and project level, identifying opportunities for enhanced delivery and team efficiency.
- Define and monitor project KPIs, such as on-time delivery, budget adherence, and team velocity.
- Monitor project budgets, track expenditures, and adherence to financial constraints.
- Provide accurate financial forecasts for resources, labor, and materials needed for both sprint and overall project completion.
- Assign team resources effectively while balancing team capacity and workload for optimal performance.
- Develop and execute risk mitigation plans, including contingency strategies for unexpected challenges.
- Act as the escalation point for critical impediments, working with leadership to resolve blockers quickly.
- Collaborate with QA teams to make sure deliverables meet agreed-upon standards and acceptance criteria.
- make sure projects adhere to organizational governance frameworks, policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain proper documentation and reporting to make sure projects are prepared for audits or executive reviews.
- Facilitate effective communication and teamwork across geographically dispersed or cross-functional teams.
- Coach teams to take ownership of their work, fostering accountability and self-organization.
- Actively mediate disputes or conflicting priorities within teams or between stakeholders.
- Serves as a filter to remove impediments to progress as identified by the team.
- Protects the team from outside influences to make sure the team remains focused on Scrum Team priorities.
- Partners with the Product Owner, Project Managers and Business leads to make sure the backlog items are prioritized based on business value and ready for the team.
- Facilitate team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team.
- Arranges daily stand-up/project status meetings, facilitates/schedules meetings, demo, and decision-making processes to make sure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
- No direct managerial accountability. Matrixed reporting, partners with Sr. Scrum Master and PM Leads to provide coaching/feedback to make sure team success.
- Facilitating and guiding Teams to deliver expected outcomes with high quality.
- Regularly track project expenditures against the budget to make sure costs remain within approved limits.
- Identify and report any variances between projected and actual expenses, with clear explanations and corrective actions.
- make sure projects costs are allocated correctly across workstreams, phases, or cost centers as appropriate.
- Prepare detailed financial reports for stakeholders, showing the projects’ budget status, actuals and remaining funds
- Create weekly/monthly reports highlighting project health, progress and key metrics,
- Report risks and issues with mitigation plans to keep stakeholders informed.
- Conduct formal reviews to make sure deliverables quality, obtain approvals and assess risks.
- Record stage gate decisions and monitor pe