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