Description

Key specific accountabilities.

• Facilitating the daily stand-up
• Helping the team maintain burn down
• Setting up sprint ceremonies (planning, retrospective, demo) and facilitating when required
• Shielding the team from interruptions during the sprint
• Removing obstacles that prevent the team progress
• Encouraging collaboration between the Scrum team and product owner
• Coaching the team in Agile practices and principles
• Stakeholder management and leadership.
• Working very closely, on a daily basis with the development team, Product Owner, BSA, and Team / Tech lead to ensure successful delivery of sprint commitments
• Reporting team / sprint progress to senior leadership as requested
• Collaborating with other Scrum Masters outside of the group to develop consistent best practices through COP forums
• Strong leadership skills with experience in conflict resolution
• Excellent facilitation and communication skills
• Ability to engage and motivate team to work towards a shared purpose in the best interests of the organization
• Skills to influence continual improvement, situational awareness, team empowerment and to instill transparency into the team
• Excellent Strategic thinking and execution
• Decision making and problem solving.
• Strong experience with solving complex problems and conflicts using techniques suitable for the situation
• Ability to serve and lead the team at the same time (servant leadership)
• Ability to guide the team in the decision making process

Basic Qualifications

• 2 years’ experience as a Scrum Master working with at least one high performing team
• 3 years’ experience as a Scrum Master working with multiple Agile teams
• Excellent debugging skills in Devops environment; coordinate across the teams
• Comfortable in understanding Infrastructure concepts and environments
• Comfortable in understanding a Unix/Linux based environment.
• Comfortable in understanding Cloud based environments and concepts like AWS, Openstack, OpenShift, Docker Containers and CI/CD toolsets.
• Complete understanding Agile concepts
• Complete understanding of SDLC and CI/CD pipeline delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience facilitating agile ceremonies such as, Stand up, Planning, Demo, Retrospective, Grooming, and the best practices associated with them.
• Clear understanding of Agile practices and principles
• Clear understanding of Agile team roles and responsibilities
• Experience working in different areas of banking technology (website, Mobile, Desktop, IVR, etc…)
• Experience and understanding of Devops concepts
• Agile coaching experience
• Basic understanding of LDAP or Active Directory concepts
• Ability to chase service and request tickets aggressively to completion to meet tight project deadlines as required
• Cloud and infrastructure concepts like (AWS, Openstack, Azure)
• Working knowledge of Scrum tools – Rally