Scrum Master

The Scrum Master job facilitates a cross functional agile collaborative team in iterative technology development. Under moderate supervision, this job communicates with the development team regarding scrum principles, helping the team to focus on sprint goals and to achieve their highest performance level to ensure the scrum project is successfully progressed. This job applies practical knowledge of the scrum principles in order to support on scope changes, Quality Assurance and other more technical aspects of the project.

Key Responsibilities and Duties
- Supports the Senior Scrum Master in managing stakeholder expectations regarding target scope, schedule and budget.
- Modifies the scrum process and project progress by identifying impediments that hinder project progress.
- Analyzes daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and iteration meetings.
- Handles the development tracking system to include product and sprint backlogs.
- Examines the progress of the sprint and helps teams estimate iteration deliverables and increase velocity.
- Ensures scrum principles and approaches are understood correctly by the development team and stakeholders to maximize the performance of the team.

Educational Requirements
- University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience
- 2+ Years Required; 3+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements
- Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level

6IC

Have working experience of 3-8 years as a Scrum Master in an IT Software program/project
- Hands on experience of conducting all the agile team ceremonies like Daily Scrum call, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Planning and Grooming, Inspect and adapt, etc.
- Have key attributes of Scrum Master Role like:

- Strong problem solving skills, Servant Leadership, Conflict Management, Good Communication skills, team player, coaching, mentoring team members.
- Should keep the necessary tool (JIRA) hygiene for the team.
- Should work in close connection day in day out with the team troika - Product Owner and the Technical Lead
- Should be Agile Scrum certified and excellent understanding of agile framework, its principles, values.
- Strong understanding of tools like JIRA, Confluence, JIRA Align.
- Should work hand in hand with Release train engineer
- Should follow and adhere the guidelines as per the Scrum book.
- Should drive new process improvements through the year
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Company Overview

TIAA GBS India was established in 2016 with a mission to tap into a vast pool of talent, reduce risk by insourcing key platforms and processes, as well as contribute to innovation with a focus on enhancing our technology stack. TIAA GBS India is focused on building a scalable and sustainable organization, with a focus on technology, operations and expanding into the shared services business space.

Working closely with our U.S. colleagues and other partners, our goal is to reduce risk, improve the efficiency of our technology and processes and develop innovative ideas to increase throughput and productivity.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment regardless of age, race, color, national origin, sex, religion, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status.

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