Scrum Master

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

Scrum Master:

• Facilitate Team DSU’s, Retrospectives, Sprint planning meetings, etc.

• Assists Product Owner with product backlog, when needed

• Assists with removing Impediments/obstacles

• Act as a liaison between the team, stakeholders, and other Scrum Masters to ensure that the team’s efforts are aligned

• Pulling impacted Tech Leads, PO’s, TA’s, Business (if/when applicable) together to collaborate and design solution keeping in mind reusability in the future

• Coordinate Delivery Sync with all impacted PO’s and Business partners to close out any open questions on business requirements

• Coordination of dependencies

• Manage and Communicate Risks (Timelines, Impediments, etc.)

• Coordinate, Create and Maintain Detailed initiative timeline for all impacted areas. Aligning all to a specific implementation date

• Facilitate meetings

• Bi-Weekly Readouts and/or Status updates

• Reporting/Metrics

• Assist with SDLC

• Communicate reminders concerning Release Management dates – soft freeze, hard freeze, etc., for all Quarterly releases and off quarter releases.

· Strong leadership, time management, and organizational skills

· Excellent written and verbal communications skills

· Excellent team collaboration skills, including experience in dealing with multiple projects impacting different processes, multi-functional teams, and ability to coordinate across teams in a large matrix organization environment.

· Strong relationship building and maintaining skills. Fosters a climate conducive to establishing positive working relationships with clients (internal and external).

• Working knowledge of MS Office Suite, JIRA, and JiraAlign

• Understanding of change management

• Excellent analytical, negotiation and problem solving skills

• In-depth Annuity business and/or technical knowledge preferred but not mandatory.

Mandatory certification: CSM/PSM/SSM

Good to have certification: SAFe SM or SAFe Agilist or SAFe POPM

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

Gurgaon

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