Scrum Master

Position Overview:

• Facilitate custom application development projects using Agile methodology.
• Coordinate with different project, business teams, scrum teams, technical teams, and end-users in
  achieving the corporate deliverables on-time.
• Capture meeting notes and track action items.
• Strong interaction with the Business, Business Process Engineer, Super Users, Systems Analysts, Software Specialists, UX Developers and Project Managers are essential.
• Collaborate with other IT and Business teams to enable the Project teams with high delivery standards.
• Have the capability to understand web and mobile development languages like AWS Cloud, Angular, JavaScript, .Net, HTML5/CSS, SAP etc. and able to work with them to meet the business requirements.
• Ability to handle the team dynamics.
• Sound knowledge in SAFe Agile practice.
• Should have good communication skills.
• Should possess fundamental knowledge on cloud platform.
• Prototyping Mindset in terms of Design thinking/Design Sprint approach with team.

Required Skills:

• Project Delivery/Reporting
• Lead and coach scrum adoption
• Team Management

Certifications:

• Preferred “SSM or SASM or SA” in SAFe practice
• PMI Certification (Good to have)

Key Responsibilities:

• Display Servant leadership and enable the Agile practices within the team through practice.
• Solid experience in Sprint activities, identifying priorities and dependencies.
• Good experience in effectively managing the product backlog using JIRA .
• Arrange and optimize product backlog.
• Help communicate the owner’s wish list to the project team.
• Organize scrum ceremonies.
• Ensure project deliverables are delivered on time with right quality as per IFF standard practice and guideline.
• Good Experience in Risk identification and mitigation.
• Track and control the schedule, resources, and costs.
• Coach Teams in Best Practices to achieve common project goal.
• Ability to drive 2 or more Scrum teams.
• Facilitate Scrum Collaborations and co-ordinate with the project stake holders.
• Facilitate the end-to-end lifecycle of AIML models, including ideation, prototyping, experimentation,
  production deployment, and ongoing monitoring.
• Competency: Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and experience in managing projects involving AI/ML technologies (good to have)
• Implement changes and steps to increase the team’s productivity.
• Collaborate with other scrum masters to improve the methodologies’ efficiency.
• Remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics.
• Support SAFe principles and practices, identifying and eliminating impediments, and facilitating flow.
• Helps the team coordinate with other teams on the Agile Release Train (ART).
• Able to collaborate and work closely with Cloud/Infrastructure team and handle the change
  requests/deployments.

Experience Criteria:

• Total Enterprise experience 10+ Years.
• 5+ Years in collaborative project delivery who comes with technical background and handling projects in agile mode of delivery.

Background/Academic Qualification:

• Bachelor's /Post Graduate degree or higher in science or engineering.
• MBA or other advanced degree is a plus.

Courses:

• AWS Fundamentals Specialization. (Good to have)
• Design Sprint. (Good to have)
• Atlassian
  • Jira Fundamentals. (Must)
  • Reporting in Jira Software. (Must)
  • Gain Project Insights through JQL. (Good to have)

Job Relevant Competencies:

• Good in presentation skills.
• Strong MS Office skills (Excel / PPT/ Word etc.,).
• Project management Tool - Atlassian JIRA.
• Good in Communication skills (Verbal and Written).
• Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills; meet challenging timelines.
• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
• Ability to deliver prototypes/proof of concepts in design sprint mode.