We are looking for an experienced and motivated Offshore Scrum Master to join our team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in ensuring the smooth execution of Agile processes, fostering collaboration, and driving continuous improvement for our development teams. If you are passionate about Agile principles and thrive in a collaborative and dynamic environment, we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Team Support and Mentorship:
- Support, educate, engage, and mentor team members, Product Owners (PO), managers, and stakeholders to adhere to Agile principles.
- Clearly define roles and responsibilities for all team members.
- Foster Collaboration and Innovation:
- Promote a collaborative team environment that encourages ownership, creativity, and innovation, in alignment with Team Leaders (TLs).
- Continuous Improvement:
- Drive and measure continuous improvement processes to ensure the team meets and improves Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) over time.
- Vision and Goal Alignment:
- Understand project vision and sprint goals, ensuring their smooth implementation.
- Scrum Meetings Facilitation:
- Organize and facilitate key Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Dependency Management:
- Coordinate and manage dependencies and integrations with external Scrum teams and Scrum Masters.
- Impediment Removal:
- Identify and remove impediments or guide the team to resolve them effectively.
- Definition of Done Compliance:
- Ensure the team adheres to the Definition of Done (DoD) and delivers high-quality work.
- Progress Reporting and Risk Management:
- Communicate project progress to the Program Manager (PgM) and other managers, raising risks or flags when necessary.
- JIRA Management:
- Ensure all project items (Epics, Stories, Bugs) are properly tracked and updated in JIRA, including time recording (estimates, time spent, and time remaining).
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Scrum Master in an Agile environment, preferably in an offshore or distributed team setting.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and principles.
- Exceptional facilitation and communication skills.
- Hands-on experience with Agile tools like JIRA, structure, EazyBI
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide teams while fostering a collaborative and innovative culture.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to remove impediments effectively.
- Experience in dependency management and working with multiple teams/stakeholders.
- Knowledge of project reporting and KPI tracking is a plus.
- Jira Admin- Advantage
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What We Do
At ThetaRay, we believe that banks no longer have to de-risk when they can expand their cross-border ecosystem safely.
ThetaRay is the developer of SONAR, a groundbreaking, AI-powered, transaction-monitoring SaaS solution for cross-border payments that allows banks to expand their business opportunities by achieving safe and reliable cross-border payment monitorisation.
ThetaRay's technology is the only packaged SaaS offering that analyzes SWIFT traffic, risk indicators, and client/payer/payee data to detect anomalies indicating money laundering activity across complex, cross-border transaction paths. It is also one of the only AI-driven AML solutions that can be easily integrated and deployed within days, with minimal implementation required. ThetaRay's solution increases detection capabilities for both supervised and unsupervised data and includes profiling and advanced analytics assessments, all in one platform. Financial organizations that rely on highly heterogeneous and complex ecosystems benefit greatly from ThetaRay's unmatchable low false-positive rates.
