Associate - Agile

Senior Scrum Master - IN

The Senior Scrum Master job facilitates a cross functional agile collaborative team in iterative business technology development. Under limited supervision, this job coaches the development team of scrum principles, helps the team focus on sprint goals and to achieve their highest performance level to ensure the scrum project is successfully progressed. Works collaboratively across the organization, with multiple functions to connect the work of this business and drive more efficient and effective outcomes for the company.

Key Responsibilities and Duties
- Leads daily stand up, project increments and all agile engagements for the team
- Identifies strategies of working in agile when other teams may work in waterfall and other non agile ways
- Reduces the number and redundancy of meetings while increasing transparency of work and connectivity of the teams
- Leverages agile ways of working to build team culture, have fund and collaboration
- Manages stakeholder expectations regarding target scope, schedule and budget.
- Improves the scrum process and project progress by removing impediments that hinder project progress.
- Facilitates daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and iteration meetings.
- Manages the development tracking system to include product and sprint backlogs.
- Monitors the progress of the sprint and helps teams estimate iteration deliverables and increase velocity.
- Fosters self-organization and collaborative scrum team and shelters the team from outside distractions to keep focus mainly on the agreed sprint goals.
- 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
- 3+ Years Required; 5+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements
- Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level

7IC

Related Skills

Adaptability, Collaboration, Communication, Consultative Communication, Executive Presence, General Risk Management, Influence, Problem Solving, Program Management, Project Management, Relationship Management, Stakeholder Engagement

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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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