Senior (Lead)Scrum Master
Bangalore/Gurgaon, India
As AXA XL continues to prioritize its comprehensive capabilities, the Senior Scrum Master plays a crucial role in upholding agile principles and values within the team. Their responsibility lies in ensuring that the team follows the agreed-upon practices and processes while working on significant technology initiatives for the organization. Their influence and expertise are essential in promoting a dynamic and adaptive approach to project management, ultimately supporting the company's strategic objectives and enhancing overall operational effectiveness.
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What will your essential responsibilities include?
·Coaches the Scrum Team and removes impediments escalating when appropriate.
·Partners with the Product Owner, IT Delivery Lead and Business leadership to form execution delivery plans and manage progress and facilitates release planning.
·Partners with a Sr. Scrum Master to support and facilitate generally one Scrum Team in various functions by fostering Agile value and practices.
·Ensure team adhere to Agile/WAgile principles. Provides coaching to the Scum Team(s) on how to execute the Scrum framework. Teaches team servant leadership.
·Organizes and facilitates ceremonies, identifies improvement opportunities to optimize velocity and quality while mitigating risk.
·Tracks and communicates the overall team progress providing visibility to stakeholders. (Retrospectives, Sprint Planning, etc…)
·Serves as a filter to remove impediments to progress as identified by the team.
·Protects the team from outside influences to ensure the team remains focused on Scrum Team priorities.
·Partners with the Product Owner, Project Managers and Business leads to ensure the backlog items are prioritized based on business value and ready for the team.
·Facilitate team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team.
·Arranges daily stand-up/project status meetings, facilitates/schedules meetings, demo, and decision-making processes to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
·No direct managerial accountability. Matrixed reporting, partners with Sr. Scrum Master and PM Leads to provide coaching/feedback to ensure team success.
·Facilitating and guiding Teams to deliver expected outcomes with high quality.
·Regularly track project expenditures against the budget to ensure costs remain within approved limits.
·Identify and report any variances between projected and actual expenses, with clear explanations and corrective actions.
·Ensure projects costs are allocated correctly across workstreams, phases, or cost centers as appropriate.
·Prepare detailed financial reports for stakeholders, showing the projects’ budget status, actuals and remaining funds
·Create weekly/monthly reports highlighting project health, progress and key metrics,
·Report risks and issues with mitigation plans to keep stakeholders informed.
·Conduct formal reviews to ensure deliverables quality, obtain approvals and assess risks.
·Record stage gate decisions and monitor performance to maintain consistency across phases.
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We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
Required Skills and Abilities:
·7+ years of significant scrum master experience with cross-functional teams
·Project management experience and certification is a plus.
·Scrum certification preferred, Agile at scale if possible.
·Detailed understanding and practice of agile methodology and mindset (values and principles)