Scrum Master

**Scrum Master**:

- Hyderabad, India
- Information Technology
- 313430

**Job Description**:
**About The Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**:
10
** S&P Global Ratings Technology**

**The** **Role**: Scrum Master

**Responsibilities**:

- In this role, you will be working with a team of enthusiastic members supporting our critical technology systems and guiding our business partners & end users with industry best practices, solution design, and creating long term value to our customers.
- Act as Servant leader to an Agile team.
- Educate Agile teams to maximize efficiencies and performance from Scaled Agile practices and values.
- Coach Agile teams in self-organization and continuous improvement.
- Guide the Agile teams to consistently deliver customer value.
- Manage risks, mitigate impediments, and negotiate dependencies within and across Agile teams.
- Facilitate Scrum events including, Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, Refinement sessions, Iteration Reviews, and Retrospectives.
- Work with Product Owners to ensure features and user stories are clear, concise, prioritized, and understood by every member of the Agile team.
- Establish and maintain open and clear lines of team communication to facilitate progress transparency.
- Work with peer Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and Agile Coaches to increase the effectiveness of Scaled Agile.

**What we’re looking for**:

- A person with ‘Team First’ mindset with an ability to build and sustain trust at all levels across the organization
- Ability to develop and foster teamwork. Ability to gauge how the team is doing and to drive the necessary actions to improve
- Emotional intelligence, level-headed diplomat, skilled listener, and clear communicator, with strong empathy traits, able to remain objective and constructive in all situations
- Ability to facilitate constructive debate and resolve disagreements and conflicts constructively
- Deliver hands-on training and coaching of defined Agile practices to individual teams and programs.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally and cross-regionally across multiple Product portfolios
- Understand other engineering processes and methodologies and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/Enterprise

**Basic Qualifications**:

- Experience leading teams as a Scrum Master
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Basic knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Proven ability to identify and mitigate risks
- Team-first, servant leader mentality

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Certified SAFe Scrum Master
- Certified PSM or CSM

**About S&P Global Ratings**
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.

S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

**What’s In It For**You?**

**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

**Our People**:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

**Our Values**:
**Integrity, Discovery, Partnership**

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of **integrity** in all we do, bring a spirit of **discovery** to our work, and collaborate in close **partnership** with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

**Benefits**:**

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need