Sr Scrum Master/Business Analyst

• Leadership and Coordination: Lead and coordinate the functional and Agile aspects of projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Requirement Gathering and Solution Design: Work closely with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business requirements, and design functional solutions.
• Facilitation and Team Support: Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, support the development team, and remove impediments.
• Stakeholder Management and Communication: Act as a liaison between the development team and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment of expectations.
• Progress Tracking and Process Improvement: Track and report on the team's progress, identify and implement process improvements, and ensure functional solutions meet quality standards.

Role expectations

• 8+ years of Consulting experience/Scum master or relevant industry experience
• Be a servant leader: You receive as much satisfaction from facilitating others' success as your own.
• Remove impediments: You do everything in your power to remove obstacles that are preventing the team from accomplishing its Sprint goals.
• Radiate information: You make sure that all information needed to ensure the team's progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself (e.g. backlogs, burndown/up charts, etc.)
• Support the Product Owner: You work to assist the Product Owner, through communicating updates and removing impediments, assisting with backlog and release plan maintenance, etc.
• Facilitate creativity and empowerment for the development team: You foster an environment where creativity and empowerment can flourish.
• Improve the team's engineering practices and tools as needed: You make sure teams have the tools and know-how they need to succeed.
• Communicate, communicate, communicate. You ensure that everyone—the Product Owner, the team, and various other stakeholders—are always up-to-speed.
• Act as a Scrum Master for 2+ Agile teams simultaneously.
• Provide leadership, direction and coaching to the team by encouraging them to adopt and mature good Scrum processes according to the Scrum Guide.
• Create an environment whereby the team is motivated, self-organizing and self-sufficient.
• Organize and facilitate effective Scrum meetings: backlog grooming, Sprint planning, daily Scrum, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective.
• Encourage your teams to routinely inspect and adapt.
• Assist the team in establishing a consistent and predictable team level cadence (predictable velocity)
• Identify and facilitate the removal of team impediments and escalate as appropriate.
• Work with and coach Product Owners to develop, manage, and continuously groom the team's product backlog.
• In partnership with the Product Owner, track and communicate to Stakeholders information such as team velocity, Sprint/release progress, impediments, team successes, etc.
• In coordination with Project Managers, facilitate cross-team coordination and collaboration when projects require it.
• Assist Product Owners and Project Managers with planning and grooming activities.

What we're looking for

• Leadership and Coordination: Lead and coordinate the functional and Agile aspects of projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Requirement Gathering and Solution Design: Work closely with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business requirements, and design functional solutions.
• Facilitation and Team Support: Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, support the development team, and remove impediments.
• Stakeholder Management and Communication: Act as a liaison between the development team and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment of expectations.
• Progress Tracking and Process Improvement: Track and report on the team's progress, identify and implement process improvements, and ensure functional solutions meet quality standards.

About Align Technology

Your growth and well-being:

At Align, every smile matters. We're committed to helping you thrive by supporting the health, growth, and well-being of our team members through a variety of tools and programs. While specific offerings may vary by location and role, Align employees can typically expect:

• Health and well-being programs to keep you thriving in both body and mind.
• Employee-exclusive discounts on Invisalign products.
• Learning opportunities through online learning resources and support for your individual development plans.
• Inclusive, global workplace that fosters collaboration, recognition and belonging.

Country and/or role specific details will be shared with you by your recruiter during the interview process.

Discover Align:

We are a global community of game-changers and smart team players, united by our belief in the power of a smile. Our dynamic team of exceptional employees is dedicated to transforming the industry and creating extraordinary outcomes every day.

Align's core values of agility, customer, and accountability are more than words to work by, they are words we live by. The actions we take every day speak to who we are as a company and our focus on being truly impactful. We celebrate our differences, and the many ways we support one another— ultimately creating a more inclusive organization and world as we continue transforming smiles and changing lives.

We foster a culture where thinking differently and seeking new experiences are not just encouraged but celebrated. With the Align Mindset, we empower each other, ensuring every voice is heard and valued in an inclusive environment that inspires creativity and collaboration.

At Align, we believe in the power of a smile, and we know that every smile is as unique as our employees. As we grow, we are committed to building a workforce rich in diverse cultural backgrounds and life experiences, fostering a culture of open-mindedness and compassion. We live our company values by promoting healthy people and healthy communities, all with the intent of changing millions of lives, one unique smile at a time.

As part of our commitment to innovation, Align Technology includes exocad and Cubicure, companies that enhance our offerings and extend our impact to industry transformation.

Eager to learn how we embrace our global differences and nurture employee well-being?

Explore Align's culture here

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Equal Opportunity Statement:

Align Technology is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all our practices, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected category. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the country for which they are applying, and employment eligibility will be verified as a condition of hire.

Department

Information Technology

Employment Type

Full Time

Location

APAC-India-IT Delivery Center Hyderabad

Workplace type

Onsite