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Post :- 28th Mar 2023
Financial/Banking experience required !
• Act in a capacity of Scrum Master or Service Delivery Owner.
• Facilitate time-boxed Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning, Daily Scrum Stand up, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective and backlog refinement meeting.
• Facilitate Agile Retrospective using techniques like Silent Writing, Happiness histogram, Sad Mad Glad, Speed dating etc.
• Work closely with product owners managing the product backlog including understanding of MVPs and delivering clearly written stories.
• Work closely with Product Owners to guide decomposing of features into smaller user stories for effective utilization by identifying SMART tasks with the help of the team.
• Assist the team and product owner to prioritize using prioritization techniques like 100 Dollar test, MOSCOW, Business Value based etc.
• Guide teams in capacity planning and story sizing utilizing estimation techniques like Planning Poker, T-shirt sizing and relative mass evaluation.
• Coordinate & collaborate with other scrum teams to help identify and track user story dependencies including KANBAN to visualize workflow for Kanban teams.
• Support teams in identifying and mitigating various issues and risks.
• Remove team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver on sprint goals.
• Track progress against sprint goals through metrics and dashboards in Jira.
• Maintain and present Sprint Burn-down Charts, Product Burn-Down Charts, Product Burn-up Chart to show the progress of the team during iteration.
• Assist in facilitating ART events and processes - help manage risks and drive relentless improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops.
• Assist in facilitating PI planning meetings, summarize team PI objectives into program PI objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency.
• Work within SAFe framework with other scrum teams, attend Scrum of Scrums to assist in coordinating dependencies across Agile Release train.
• Lead lean Agile teams in the continuous improvement process involved in PDCA cycle within the continuous delivery pipeline.
• Enable improvement in team delivery commitments through facilitation of RCAs.
• Work with in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, product visioning, technical debt reduction.
• Coach and mentor team members on SAFe methodology and principles while empowering teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Certified Scrum Master in SAFe with 7+ years of experience in lean agile software development methodology.
• Proven ability in motivating and enforcing the agile principles and removing impediments.
• SAFe Scrum Master Certification
• Well versed in both Kanban and Scrum with experience as both a Scrum Master and Service Delivery Owner
• Strong knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Life cycle
• Expertise in using the Atlassian Products- Jira and Confluence, and MS office suite.
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university
Preferred Qualifications:
• Expert level experience working in Jira setting up Team Boards for both Kanban and Scrum and creating customized reports and dashboards.
• Expert level experience setting up team artifacts in Confluence.
• Experience as Scrum master's in healthcare insurance and/or Financial Services
• SAFe Agile Coaching Experience
• Experience Acting in Scrum Master/SDO role during an Agile Transformation
• Additional SAFe Certifications that complement the Scrum Master Role
• Experience working in Jira Align
• Experience working for large scale applications, databases, Managed Upgrade and migration projects.
• Working knowledge of other agile concepts such as CI/CD, Test Driven development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) etc.