Scrum Master

**Job Title: AVP - Scrum Master**

**Location: Pune, India**

**Overview**

Working across domain at Team and tribe level, you will collaborate with teams, focusing on all stakeholder value. You will enable an agile culture, building cohesive team dynamics while fostering trust and collaboration across team members; safe to challenge, experiment and fail without fear, with delivered outcomes at the highest quality.

With in-depth and real-world experience, you will coach people and the organisation to surface their biggest impediments preventing an environment in which agility can thrive. Helping the group to relate and connect their actions to culture, including how the approach to agile processes and tools impacts high performance. This includes the impact and effective use of governance and metrics.

We will ask a lot of you, but we will offer a lot in return. You will have an opportunity to work in an environment that provides continuous growth and learning, with an emphasis excellence and mutual respect.

**What we’ll offer you**

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy
- Best in class leave policy
- Gender neutral parental leaves
- 100% reimbursement under child care assistance benefit (gender neutral)
- Flexible working arrangements
- Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
- Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
- Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
- Accident and Term life Insurance
- Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

As a Scrum Master you will need to be highly motivated as you guide and support the new Agile teams. You will control the processes that the teams engage with on a day-to-day basis, across multiple locations. Working alongside the Product Owner you will need to motivate your team with proven leadership skills, making sure that the teams operate effective Agile methodologies.

**Key responsibilities: -**
- Accountable for establishing Scrum/Agile as defined in the Scrum Guide. Do this by helping everyone understand theory and practice, both within the Team and the organization.
- Accountable for the Team’s effectiveness, coaching an improvement culture by focusing on continuous improvements, visualize and measure team flow, ensures impediments to the team are quickly removed
- Lives and promotes agile mindset and culture (Agile values and principles, scrum Values)
- Facilitate team events within Scrum and stretch for Team of Team Events at Tribe level
- Surfacing up team metrics and helping the team understand their metrics and self-reflect and experiment
- Encouraging a psychological safe environment for the team
- Supporting/Coaching the product owner and backlog
- Provide training to the team on new facilitation techniques
- Enable the team to actively own and surface dependencies and risks or escalate in a timely manner.
- Demonstrates a personal growth mindset - Lifelong learning

**Experience**
- 10+ years overall IT experience and out of which 2+ years Scrum Master experience in a software driven environment, ideally banking or a similarly regulated environment
- 4+ years experience of working in an Agile environment practicing Scrum or Kanban (Lean Agile Practitioner), putting Agile Manifesto and Principles into practice with teams and organizations
- Previous experience as dedicated Agile Scrum Master
- Experience in coaching, teaching and mentoring
- Experience with Business Mastery - Innovation and product development
- Very strong communication skills both written and oral
- Certified practitioner to enable and train teams on the best Agile practices
- Experience using collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, GIT etc
- Experience in other Agile approaches such as Kanban, XP etc

**Desirable experience**
- Professional Coaching or Facilitating
- Desirable experience of scaling agility with multiple globally distributed teams
- Evidence of supporting team focus on high quality delivery
- Technical Mastery (DevOps, Automation etc)

**How we’ll support you**
- Training and development to help you excel in your career
- Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
- Coaching and support from experts in your team
- A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
- A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

**About us and our teams**

Our values define the working environment we strive to create - diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.