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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