To support growth areas in Software Engineering Tribe, it requires a highly capable and passionate scrum master. This role will be responsible for facilitating an end-to-end agile culture within the delivery in SWE Tribe. You will lead, execute agile process & take full accountability for bringing agility to your team delivery. You will work very closely with delivery leads, product owners, solution architects, DevOps engineers, software developers & Quality Engineers and ensure the deliveries happen in time, with good quality & effectively follows the agile best practices & principles. Your objective is to ensure that the squad you’re handling, delivers effectively in a user centric approach and as promised to our customers.
• Take E2E (End-to End) ownership and accountability of establishing agile values, methods, principles & practices for the delivery of the project he/she is handling.
• Take the role of agile Scrum Master and facilitate discussions and conflict resolution and enable the exploration of alternatives or different approaches & ensure no impact on the delivery of projects.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Coach and mentor, their team members on agile standards and best practices; ensure consistent best practices are applied across the work streams.
• Ensure the correct setup & usage of tools for projects & ensure project documentations are up to date for every sprint.
• Manage stakeholders and vendor interfaces as required for technical delivery and report on project progress & activities.
• On spot risk raising for management, asking for support if any.
• At least 2 years of experience in software development (developer/tester/process improvement engineer) or software process improvement domain and 1 year in mentorship position
• Having knowledge for Scrum development methodologies & tools (Jira) and techniques, having Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, user stories etc.
• Strong understanding or experience of software development life cycle and DevOps practices.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, and Excellent communication and mentoring skills
• Proven hands-on experience in managing projects in agile environments, especially, in a facilitator role.
• Technical background and ability to understand architecture & technical issues to drive effective agile delivery.
• Good communication, organization, and team building skills; articulate and able to steer a meeting with presence.
• Ability to maintain calm attitude during difficult situations and handle pressuring situations.
• Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
• Experience in maintaining and reporting against relevant metrics (i.e. burn down and velocity, risks, timelines, etc.). In timely manner.
• Strong team player with an ability to identify and remove impediments or conflicts that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint & project goals.
• Self-starter & self-motivated with a drive to identify opportunities for improvement across the agile delivery processes.