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Post :- 5th Dec 2023
• Serve as Scrum Master leading Agile teams focusing on projects for Debit Card and Checks squad.
• Promote Agile culture, values, behaviors, and principles across business, development and testing organizations.
• Create a collaborative team environment; partner with Agile Coach to provide constructive feedback for continuous agile improvement.
• Develop team norms and balance workload for onshore and offshore developers, testers and Product Owners.
• Plan and conduct Agile meetings/ceremonies (e.g., Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand Up, Test Plan and Test Case reviews, Sprint Demos, Retrospectives, etc.).
• Review and manage backlog and in-progress items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate.
• Maintain team metrics and report project statuses (e.g., velocity/burn down charts, financial status, issues/risks, etc.) on a regular basis to Product Owner and to senior stakeholders.
• Take ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through Scrum-of-Scrums ceremony.
• Takes a lead role in overall release management, which includes end-to-end regression test coordination, ensuring SDLC artifact adherence, runbook coordination, and deployment support.
• Oversee Production issues, partner with Product Owner on impact assessment and prioritization of production issues.
Required Skills:
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.
• 10+ years of overall experience.
• 5+ years of investment banking experience.
• 7+ years hands-on experience in a large complex banking organization or major consulting organization acting as a Scrum Master utilizing Agile Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Agile project management software/tools (e.g., JIRA, etc.).
• Proven relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications.
• 4+ Years developing full-scale project plans and associated communication documents, including identifying and managing project dependencies and critical path.
• Experience estimating resources needed to achieve project goals.
• Hands on-experience proactively managing change in project scope, identifying potential issues, and devising contingency plans.
• Proficient with MS Office applications: Excel, MS Project, Visio, Word, and PowerPoint.
Preferred Skills:
• Technical background in integration, development, testing, and/or infrastructure is nice to have.