Scrum Master-Consultant-HYD/BLR

Summary

Position Summary

Artificial Intelligence & Engineering

AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to help build, deploy, and operate integrated/verticalized sector solutions in software, data, AI, network, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. These insights are powered by engineering for business advantage, helping transform mission-critical operations.

Join our AI & Engineering team to help transform technology platforms, driving innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients' achievements. You’ll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that could be critical to businesses.

Position Summary

Level: Consultant

As an experienced Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, you will be responsible for individually delivering high quality work products within due timelines. Need-basis you will be mentoring and/or directing junior team members/liaising with onsite/offshore teams to understand the functional requirements.

The Scrum Master is a key member of an Agile team, responsible for facilitating the Scrum process, coaching team members in Agile best practices, and ensuring the team’s effectiveness in delivering high-quality products. The Scrum Master acts as a servant leader, removing impediments and fostering a collaborative, transparent, and high-performing team environment.

Work you’ll do:

Apply industry knowledge to requirements gathering and analysis, ensuring alignment with sector needs. Demonstrate expertise across the entire software development lifecycle, from design and coding to deployment and defect resolution, collaborating with stakeholders for effective delivery. Conduct peer and team reviews to maintain quality standards. Actively engage in Agile practices, including sprint planning, retrospectives, and effort estimation. Build and share business process knowledge, supporting project knowledge management and team training. Proactively recommend process improvements, track efficiency gains, and contribute to automation and innovation, all aimed at enhancing project outcomes and delivering greater value to clients.

• Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies: Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Coach Agile Practices: Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to deliver value.
• Remove Impediments: Actively work to identify and eliminate obstacles that may hinder the team’s progress.
• Support Product Owner: Assist the Product Owner with backlog management, refinement, and ensuring clear communication of goals and priorities.
• Promote Team Collaboration: Foster open communication, collaboration, and self-organization within the team.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Encourage a culture of learning, adaptation, and continuous improvement through regular feedback and process enhancements.
• Maintain Scrum Artifacts: Ensure transparency by maintaining and sharing Scrum artifacts such as the product backlog, sprint backlog, and burndown charts.
• Stakeholder Communication: Serve as a liaison between the team and stakeholders, ensuring alignment and managing expectations.
• Monitoring: Track and measure progress and quality against Sprint Plan, DoD, Quality, Delivery Flow metrics
  
  

The Team:

Engineering as a Service provides complete design, implementation, and technology operations, leveraging our core engineering expertise. We transform engineering teams, modernize technology, and deliver complex programs with a product engineering approach. Our flexible delivery models—traditional teams, pools, or pods—are tailored to each client’s needs, offering engineering-led advisory, implementation, and operational capabilities to accelerate innovation.

Qualifications

Must Have Skills / Project Experience:

• 4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar Agile role working in POD model and facilitating collaboration across multiple PODs through events like the Scrum of Scrums.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies, especially Scrum and scaled Agile environment (SAFe)
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams catering to complex business environments operating at scale in hybrid work environments.
• Understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC), aspects of project planning and estimation, risk identification, capacity and dependency resolution.
• Ability to coach and mentor team members on Agile best practices on Lean delivery practices and product delivery tools such as JIRA boards. Leading role-based trainings – Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team
• Strong problem-solving and conflict resolution skills. Collaborate with scrum teams to achieve faster impediment resolution and dependency mitigation.
• Proficient in Agile project management tools (such as Jira, Jira Align, Azure DevOps, and Rally), with experience building dashboards to enhance transparency of delivery metrics.
• Enable teams to deliver value by leveraging flow metrics, Objective Key Results (OKRs), and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Basic understanding of version control systems (e.g., GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket), CI/CD Processes, Release Management
• Basic understanding of key deployment strategies in Release Management (e.g., A/B testing, Canary Releases, Blue-Green Deployment, Rolling Deployment
  
  

Good to Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• Awareness of recent industry specific events and able to explain their impact on the work that he has been doing
  
  

Education:

• BE/B.Tech/M.C.A./M.Sc (CS) degree or equivalent from accredited university
  
  

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