Sr Scrum Master
Inspire Brands Hyderabad Support Center
- Hyderabad, Telangana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Interact closely with cross-functional IT and Business teams to educate and execute on the Agile methodology and coach the team to achieve sprint goals and adhere to sprint timelines
- Schedules, facilitates, and coaches Agile routines and ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and PI Planning
- Works with Product Owners, Technical Leads, and Enterprise Architects to establish and maintain Product/Story Roadmaps
- Helps support agile tool adoption and consistent utilization and ensures the team is tracking and communicating project performance using appropriate Agile KPIs, metrics, tools, and techniques
- 8+ years of Scrum Master experience with in-depth knowledge of Scrum and implementation of Agile Methodologies to multiple teams in large-scale enterprise projects & programs
- A minimum of 7 years experience managing multiple medium/high complexity projects in a matrixed resource environment, working with diverse Project Sponsors across multi-company and business units
- Demonstrated work history of leading multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts, different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.
- Proficient with relevant Atlassian Agile tools (Jira, Confluence, Opsgenie, etc.)
- Must have excellent written and oral communication skills
- Must have experience in communicating with various levels of leadership
- Active Scrum Master Certification (SSM, CSM, PSM)
- Experience with traditional project management skills: managing budget, scheduling, estimating, etc. is preferred
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related field highly preferred
- Guides and serves teams that deliver technology solutions through effective application of the Lean/Agile principles and frameworks including Scrum, Kanban Method, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Directly experienced with the Scrum Framework: understands the appropriate use of Scrum practices within Agile teams, how to establish a Scrum teams standard ways of working, and providing general Scrum process expertise and coaching to the organization
- Ensures priorities are understood and seeks backlog alignment with Product Owner
- Helps to remove or facilitate removal of impediments the team cannot resolve on their own
- Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques