Required Skills

Scrum Master

Work Authorization

  • Us Citizen

  • Green Card

Preferred Employment

  • Corp-Corp

Employment Type

  • Consulting/Contract

education qualification

  • UG :- - Not Required

  • PG :- - Not Required

Other Information

  • No of position :- ( 1 )

  • Post :- 3rd Feb 2022

JOB DETAIL

Scrum Master · Fulfills the functions of an Agile Scrum Master; runs the software development planning and delivery process · Building high-performing Agile teams · Providing servant leadership and building multiple high-performing Agile teams · Look for ways to strengthen teams understanding of Agile / Scrum concepts and principles · Ensure Scrum practices are used and improved within and across teams · Bring transparency to Business and IT organization about development and grow trust · Identify trade-offs between short- and long-term benefits to drive shared vision between the team and product owner · Foster a continuous learning environment helping teams to inspect & adapt · Leverages Jira and Confluence to elicit and define business and technical requirements, track requirements, prioritize features, curate content, sequence deliverables into sprints, and report progress · Leads Increment and sprint planning sessions and documents resulting story boards · Facilitates the daily scrum meeting and supports delivery teams (pods) in execution of scrum methodology · Responsible for maintenance and tracking of sprint backlog and prioritization · Documents and leads remediation / removal of blockers during sprints · Collaborates with the Agile coach to maintain accountability and compliance with the defined Agile delivery methodology · Ensures that teams actions are aligned with Epics, Features and Stories · Act as the first point of escalation for the team · Responsible to Monitor, Measure, & Report Progress of the team including burndown charts, team velocity · Ensure good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team · Builds and coaches high performing teams; Looks for ways to strengthen the team’s understanding of Agile / Scrum concepts and principles; Fosters a continuous learning environment helping teams to inspect & adapt · Experienced in assessing team performance and driving necessary actions to improve · Good problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills, with the ability to coach and mentor all roles on a scrum team · Inspire people to deliver key results, demonstrate the passion for the business · Adapt current methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems · Use considerable judgment to determine solution and seeks guidance on complex problems

Decisions

 

Knowledge

· Expert knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, and familiarity with Jira and

Confluence tools

· Working knowledge of banking audit and regulatory practices; ensures that projects under their responsibility

are fully compliant with corporate standards

Skills

· Strong communications and interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to quickly build trust and relationships, manage matrixed teams, bridge communication gaps, resolve conflicts, and influence stakeholders · Strong technical aptitude and ability to quickly learn new products, lines of business, processes, software, systems, and client needs · Effective risk management skills and ability to predict and mitigate risks and issues, as well as anticipating and proactively preparing for changes and impacts to clients and SVB’s business · Active listening, persuasiveness to gain buy-in, consensus, and cooperation in the face of conflicting viewpoints, resistance to change, constraints, etc. · Good at building relationships and navigating through organizations; · Able to develop and foster collaborative teamwork and facilitate team dynamics

Competencies

· Assertive: Experience with working teams in adhering to Agile/Scrum concepts and principles and knowing

when teams are not ready; must be able to be a voice of reason

· Attitude of empowerment: Must be able to guide team(s) to self-organization

· Attitude of transparency: Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to both business and IT and build

trust amongst partners

· Collaborative: Ability to partner with others to achieve goals at various levels throughout the organization and

lead others to do so by example

· Communicative and social: Must be able to communicate well with all levels of the organization from Scrum

team members to release train leadership

· Conflict resolution: Must be able to facilitate discussion at the team level and facilitate alternatives or different

approaches

· Continual improvement: Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage

oneself and a team

· Facilitative: Must be able to lead by example and demonstrate value-add principles to scrum team(s)

· Brings a high-energy and passionate outlook to the job and can influence those around her/him

· Able to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable & effective workplace

· Communication Proficiency

· Problem Solving/Analysis

· Customer Focus

· Leadership

· Coaching/Mentoring

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