Scrum Master

**Position Title**:Scrum Master

**Location**: Bangalore

**Exp**: 5+ yrs

**Position Summary**:
The Scrum Master role is a unique Agile team member who spends much of their time helping other team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate; Generally, this person assists the team in meeting their delivery goals. The Scrum Master is a servant leader who enables teams to self-organize, self-manage, and deliver via effective Lean-Agile practices. The Scrum Master supports and enforces the Scrum process and other rules that the team has agreed. The Scrum Master also helps the team coordinate with other teams and communicates status to the delivery team, stakeholders and management as needed.

We are looking for experienced Scrum Masters with a track record of working within large, complex programs. You will be part of a highly experienced team of Developers, Architects, Scrum Masters and Client Partners, all working with cutting edge tools and technologies.

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Exhibits lean-agile leadership behaviours.
- Facilitates the team's progress towards goals. - Help focus the team on daily and sprint goals in the context of the current Program Increment (PI) objectives.
- Eliminates impediments. - Many blocking issues will be beyond the team's authority or may require support from other teams. The scrum master actively addresses these issues so that the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the sprint.
- Leads team efforts in relentless improvement.
- Facilitates team meetings and agile ceremonies including the daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
- Supports the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team.
- Works with the delivery team to ensure visibility of progress of PI to Production
- Promotes quality practices assisting the team in constantly improving the quality of their deliverables and meeting Definition of Done.
- Build a high-performing team.
- Protects the team from uncontrolled expansion of work.
- Communicates with the scrum team, other teams, management and stakeholders.
- Helps co-ordinate inter-team cooperation.
- Facilitates preparation and readiness for PI scoping, planning and system demos.
- Guides the team in establishing normalized estimates and helps the team understand how to estimate.

**Exp and Skills Required**:

- Must be adept at experimenting with new technologies, start-up setup, quick prototyping and ability to define overall approach to drive project delivery
- Strong experience in dealing with performance, scalability, distributed caching, Web Services and open source technologies
- Working experience with distributed teams will be an added advantage
- Must have excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem solving skills
- Be process-compliant in performing assigned tasks and ensuring quality of project deliverables. Drive new process ideas in his/her work area
- Help with on boarding of new members. Help performance appraisal responsibilities for the team members under the guidance of their line managers
- Ability to identify and successfully groom new leaders in technical area for handling higher level of responsibilities.
- Experience in using Jira and confluence