Scrum Master

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Job Title: SCRUM Master

Location: Hyderabad, India

Direct Manager

Senior Manager Portfolio and PMO Leader, GPS-BI&T Hyderabad

Position Summary

Seeking a Scrum Master/JIRA Administrator to support projects with a focus on Agile project governance. The ideal candidate is to have a strong Agile Delivery experience with the ability to lead multiple cross-functional teams. On a day-to-day basis, this position will be responsible for facilitating the flow of information between the Product and the Technical/ Development teams and championing the adoption of Agile Methodologies and Principles

Position Responsibilities

• As a Servant Leader, work with teams and facilitate/participate in all Scrum ceremonies and cross-functional meetings to enable the development team with accurate and relevant information.
• Manage all project-related activities in JIRA that meets Agile Project governance.
• Maintain and manage projects, boards, workflows, dashboards, permissions on JIRA.
• Knowledge of advanced JIRA filters and reporting for project and program level monitoring.
• Developing, managing, facilitating, and delivering training on Jira and related agile platforms to Agile teams and stakeholders to continuously advance workflow sophistication, efficiencies, and effectiveness.
• Familiarity with Confluence to document processes and create pages to support the Jira and agile workflows.
• Work with Product Managers and Technical Managers to enable Planning, Prioritization as well as Decision Making on high-value features and enhancements.
• Work with both Internal and External stakeholders actively to resolve impediments or address risk/ concerns raised by the Development teams.
• Supports Reporting of team metrics to facilitate the transparent reporting of Team Productivity/ Velocity and other relevant metrics.
• Work with internal teams/ stakeholders to help prioritize work that extends across multiple service and application teams and track interdependencies.
• Attend meetings and surface any concerns that could derail/ impact delivery across the Program as well as take back potential impacts/ delays to the team.
• Provide mentoring and training the team in ensuring the adoption of Agile Practices and Principles.
• Ability to act independently in both surfacing and facilitating issue resolutions.

Desired Experience

Must have

• Bachelor’s degree /MBA Degree and 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3+ years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques.
• Experience managing Multiple distributed teams across different geographic area
• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, and Excel
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret and present data effectively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document key decisions, risks and action items.
• Proficiency in project management tools and software (e.g., Microsoft Project, JIRA)
• Experience with software development methodologies and requirements gathering techniques such as Agile (Scrum, AUP, SAFe etc.) and Waterfall is preferred.
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
• Deep Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), and understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
• Problem Solving and Conflict resolution skills.
• Advanced JIRA admin experience to help maintain and improve Agile Projects monitoring, tracking and Delivery.
• 3+ Years of Scrum Master Experience working with various Application/ Service/ Dev Ops teams.

Additional Skills

• Demonstrated success working in a matrix team structure to drive collaborative outcomes that meet organizational objectives. 
• Self-motivated with validated personal integrity, judgement and professional maturity and ability to collaborate.
• JIRA ADMIN certification/ working experience
• Confluence web page design/administration desired
• Agile Certifications (Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• PMP /Prince 2 is a plus

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