Scrum Master

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 10
S&P Global Commodity Insights
**The Organization**: At S&P Global Commodity Insights, we provide the insights; you make better informed trading and business decisions with confidence. We’re the leading independent provider of information and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets. Customers in over 150 countries look to our expertise in news, pricing, and analytics to deliver greater transparency and efficiency to markets. S&P Global Commodity Insights coverage includes oil and gas, power, petrochemicals, metals, agriculture, and shipping.
**The Role**: Scrum Master
**Grade ( relevant for internal applicants only )**: 11
**The Location**: Hyderabad
**T he Team**: The S&P Global Commodity Insights team seeks transformation from product to platform-centric software engineering practices in Agile development methodology. This person will play a pivotal role to ensure we adopt Agile methodology.
**The Impact**: This role has a broader context of major strategic initiatives to extend our market leadership, enhance customer experience, and implement next-generation software technology. In short, it represents an exciting and visible opportunity to join our team during a dynamic period of fundamental organizational and operational changes
**What’s in it for y ou**: Great Place to Work, Good L earning C urve, E xcellent W ork C ulture, and M otivates you to Get Stuff Done.

**Responsibilities**:
Coaching the team and organization to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
Coaching the team to get self-organized
Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel
Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving
Facilitating to getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and streamlining information
Shield the team from outside distractions and interferences
Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
Providing all support to the team using servant leadership skills whenever possible, and leading by example
Leads team efforts in relentless improvement - Helps the team improve and take responsibility for their actions; facilitates the team retrospective
What are we Looking For?
First level Scrum Master certification (PSM I)
Worked in the SAFe environment on t hree or more Program Increments (PIs) and be aware of how their SAFe team is structured
Support the team rules - These may include the rules of Scrum, Built-In Quality practices from Extreme Programming (XP), Work in Process (WIP) limits from Kanban, and any other process rules the team has agreed
Good skills and knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach ( example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Experience with some of commonly used tools - Azure DevOps, Confluence, MS Teams, SharePoint
Follow the Scrum values - commitment, focus, openness, respect, and courage
SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) certification as an added advantage
About S&P Global Commodity Insights
At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value.
We’re a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.
S&P Global Commodity Insights 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 transitio