Sr. Scrum Master

Summary:

Plans, designs, develops and tests software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools. Most companies should be able to match to a specific software development engineer position. Use this position if company does not breakout software development positions such as Software Engineer (Applications) (5141-5146) or Software Engineer (Systems) (5161-5166).

Duties & Responsibilities:

Job Description

• You will be playing a key role in the next-gen SaaS product and platform development.
• Manage each project’s scope and timeline
• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
• Coach cross-functional product team members in Agile frameworks
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
• Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders)
• Capture metrics and team health data to improve forecasts and help the team maintain a sustainable pace.
• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
• Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks (Crystal, XP etc.)
• Coaching and mentoring Scrum teams, Product Owners,
• and stakeholders to maximize the benefits of agile practices and resolve impediments.
• Help in facilitating coaching sessions on Agile process, Scrum process across multiple projects who are adopting Agile methodologies in their streams.
• Help teams implement changes effectively
• Led multiple Scrum teams in the adoption and consistent application of Agile and Scrum practices, ensuring alignment with project goals and milestones.
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
• Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
• Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it

Additional Job Description

• Bachelor's degree in IT/Computer or equivalent
• 8 + years of experience in Scrum Master Role
• Significant proficiency/in-depth knowledge in the domain (technology and/or products)
• Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
• Outstanding organizational skills
• Scrum master certification is needed
• Thorough understanding of software development and/or support methodologies, principles and procedures and related software management tools.
• Experience with Telecom Product development with TMF standards preferred
• Experience building scalable SaaS platform clear advantage.

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements: