Scrum Master

Who we are?

At Inchcape Shipping Services, our vision is to have a connected world in which our customers trade successfully and make better decisions in every port, everywhere. We use technology and our global network to help our partners connect to a smoother, smarter ocean. Inchcape combines its worldwide infrastructure with local expertise through our global network of over 240 proprietary offices across 60 countries and a team of more than 2,500 committed professionals. Our diverse global customer base includes owners and charterers in the oil, cruise, container, and bulk commodity sectors as well as naval, government, and intergovernmental organizations.

We have an ambitious growth model, and a career here is certainly going to be a rewarding one that will allow you to bring your skills & experience. We embrace change and are open to new thinking and pushing for positive change in our industry.

Job Purpose:

Plan and deliver business critical product development. Ensure that the development team follows the scrum framework and agile practices. Mentor and motivate the team to improve processes, facilitate meetings/ceremonies and decision-making processes. Eliminate team impediments.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Use agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Mentor and support the scrum team to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager/Product Owner to build high functioning development teams
• Determine and manage tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• In collaboration with the Product Manager/Product Owner, ensure there is a prioritized backlog of user stories.
• Facilitate a collaborative planning and estimating process.
• In collaboration with the Product Manager/Product Owner, prioritise, refine and include L3 tickets in the sprint backlog.
• Schedule and facilitate scrum ceremonies (e.g. daily stand-ups, retros etc) and decision-making processes.
• Monitor progress and performance using appropriate metrics and help the team to make improvements.
• Champion continuous improvement.
• Plan and organize demos.
• Ensure the proper use of collaborative processes and remove impediments for the scrum team.
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to understand and track dependencies between teams.
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to improve the agile practice and ways of working
• Support the Product Manager/Product Owner by preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders
  
  

Knowledge

• Relevant degree in information technology or related field
• Ability to lead, influence and work with people belonging to different cultures.
• Plan and manage Product delivery
• Knowledge of full stack software engineering and modern delivery practices
• Thorough knowledge of the entire software development life cycle with experience in delivering critical product / projects
• Knowledge of application integrations and API
• Strong analytical and conceptual ability to function both at detail and conceptual level
  
  

Skills

• Certified scrum master
• Project management practices
• Agile delivery practices
• Excellent team management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong collaborative and partner approach
• Jira & Confluence
• Must have come from the software development background using .NET technologies
• Understanding of AWS cloud native development using EC2, Lambda, S3, Simple Que Service etc.,
• Experience with any middleware platform and Database technologies will be an added advantage.
  
  

Experience

• 5+ years of agile delivery management experience
• Ability to manage scrum teams of experienced full stack engineers
• Management if teams that built and maintained business critical products / applications
• Exposure to Business-critical systems integrations & RPA
• Experience in handling DevOps & site reliability engineering teams will be an added advantage