Scrum master

Job Description

Job Summary –

Job Summary –

Agile Scrum Master

As an Agile Scrum Master, you will help our product & engineering teams to follow Agile principles and practices to deliver high quality products and features.

LOCATION: PUNE

You will work within a team, engaging with Product Managers, Delivery managers, and team members to help build and reinforce the Agile mindset and to embed Agile principles in the day to day work. Examples include: ensuring cross-functional collaboration; ensuring key stakeholders are engaging as needed; establishing the MVP mindset and approach; checking that backlogs are being prioritised using value-focused KPIs as criteria, etc.

Program Specific Requirements

• Understand and contribute to scope definition, MVP planning, Quarterly goal definitions, Milestone & Release tracking.
• Proactive risk management which includes identification, assessment and mitigation.
• Engage closely with internal and externals Stakeholders across locations.
  
  

Clear, concise and accurate weekly status reporting and presentation skills is a must.

• Lead Scrum of scrum meetings, influencing actions and tracking them to timely closure.
• Project experience & technical acumen in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Infrastructure, .Net, Jenkin CI/CD pipeline, and related technology.
• Preferred certification in PMP, Safe Foundation, AWS Practitioner.
• Clear oral and written communication.
  
  

General Requirements

• Run Agile events like Feature elaboration/Estimation, daily stand ups, release planning, Iteration Planning Meeting, Retrospective, Showcase, etc
• Gate keep development process and quality by ensuring that best practices are followed.
• Coach, train and mentor to improve the maturity and value of the practice within the team.
• Provide strong influencing skills to achieve alignment within the team.
• Collaborate with other Iteration Managers to standardise and improve the Agile process across teams
• Making sure that team has defined goal for iteration and all team members are concerned in the iteration’s tasks
• Ensuring that the development tasks are on schedule and are included and prioritised correctly for each release and iteration
• Keep constant communication open with the team on how the iteration is planned and tracked
• Manage day-to-day communication with product, delivery and program management within the organisation.
• Keep key stakeholders informed about progress and potential risk with relevant metrics and reporting.
• Protect the team from outside distractions. Avoiding noise and reacting on it if necessary.
• Advocate for customer and developer bill of rights.
  
  

Relevant experience

Minimum Qualifications

Education ： Bachelor-Master degree

Proficient in English language.

Overall experience of 12+ years in IT Software technology.

5+ years of experience working with teams in creating Agile adoption or as a Scrum Master/Project Manager.

Demonstrating strong knowledge of and background with Agile concepts

• Experience with Agile software development methodology
• Ability to manage medium / large size Agile projects
• Expertise in use of agile tools for driving Scrum practices and/or JIRA to track team progress
• Experience collaborating closely with product, engineering, and UX teams
  
  

Nice to have

Preferred Qualifications

Certification in PMP, Safe Foundation, AWS Practitioner.

Years of experience needed –

Technical Skills

Screening Questions:

Process Skills

About Mphasis

Mphasis applies next-generation technology to help enterprises transform businesses globally. Customer centricity is foundational to Mphasis and is reflected in the Mphasis’ Front2Back™ Transformation approach. Front2Back™ uses the exponential power of cloud and cognitive to provide hyper-personalized (C=X2C2TM=1) digital experience to clients and their end customers. Mphasis’ Service Transformation approach helps ‘shrink the core’ through the application of digital technologies across legacy environments within an enterprise, enabling businesses to stay ahead in a changing world. Mphasis’ core reference architectures and tools, speed and innovation with domain expertise and specialization are key to building strong relationships with marquee clients.