Job Description:
We seek an experienced Agile Scrum Master to join our dynamic team at Guardian. As a Scrum master, you will facilitate and coordinate Agile Scrum processes within our organization, ensuring the team can work collaboratively and efficiently to deliver high-quality solutions.
You will work closely with the product development team to ensure that the work progresses on schedule, within budget, and to the desired level of quality. Additionally, you will serve as a coach and mentor to our team – helping to foster a culture of continuous improvement and ensuring that the team is meeting its objectives consistently.
Qualifications:
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
Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday
