Scrum Master

LTTS India- - Chennai- ** Job Description**Creating an environment that enables a team to excel as a high performing Scrum team. - People focused serving as a Facilitator, Process Coach/Mentor and is a "mirror" to the team. - Supporting one or two Agile developments teams within a SAFe environment. This will include supporting all phases of software development from requirements definition through to production rollout as well as quarterly planning sessions for release trains. - Highly skilled at working with cross functional teams in a matrixed environment with the ability to ensure timely delivery through removal of blockers so that strategic objectives are met. - Coaching the team on lean agile principles using data such as flow metrics, velocity to leverage best practices. - Living and helping others on the team live the values and principles in the agile manifesto. - Coaching the Team in self-organization and cross-functionality. - Coaching the team towards consistent estimation and planning cadence to support predictable value delivery. - Creating a transparent environment that shares observations and promotes a culture of continuous improvement. - Creating and maintaining strong working agreements for the teams to live by and derive value from. - Using consensus facilitation techniques to get agreement or alignment. - Understanding and being able to explain the "why" behind any Scrum process and be open to change. - Effectively executing all Scrum events daily standups, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings. - Ensuring team maintains focus on objectives, goals and scope for each Sprint and each Program Increment. - Communicating and effectively representing the team's technical abilities. - Supporting program level events within the Agile Release Train, scrum of scrums and release planning activities. - Tracking progress to plan for all sprints, ensuring data accuracy at all times. - Removing blockers, tracking and closing dependencies and implementing retrospective items. - Clearly communicating and escalating issues to program teams and leadership. - Taking a proactive stance by developing contingency plans for potential risks. - Supporting backlog grooming with product management. - You should definitely have: - Min 5 years of experience as scrum master using agile methodology and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean etc. - Detailed knowledge of Agile techniques such as: User Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pair and Mob Programming, Automated Testing. - Ability to manage multiple priorities and has practical problem-solving skills, is a critical thinker, and self-starter - Superior communications skills with all levels of an organization including coaching and negotiations. - Demonstrated ability to work successfully with demanding schedule constraints and distributed teams. - Strong facilitation and coaching skills and a "value oriented" mindset that focuses on flow. - Experienced neutral process holder that guides the individual's, team's, or organization's process of discovery, holding to their purpose and definition of success. - Demonstrated Lean-Agile Practitioner - Expertise in agile scaling patterns or structures - Ability to offer the right knowledge, at the right time, taught in the right way, so that individuals, teams and organizations metabolize the knowledge for their best benefit. - Facilitate, catalyze and (as appropriate) lead organizational change and transformation. Drawing on change management, organization culture, organization development, systems thinking, and other behavioral sciences. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline- ** Job Requirement**SAFe certified Scrum Master