Agile Coach / Scrum Master - Mumbai - Morgan @ Morgan Stanley

Position Description

We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to support multiple projects and initiatives under Banking Payment - NextGen Money Movement team. The ideal candidate embodies the firms core values, is team oriented, collaborates across the organization, and leads with excellence and innovation. The candidate should have previous experience in facilitating Scrum ceremonies. The Scrum Master will support the squad to ensure successful delivery of the outcomes. Responsibilities

• Lead as Scrum Master and oversee project development with Agile meetings and ensure effective completion and delivery

• 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.

• Promote Agile culture, values, behaviors, and principles across business, development and testing organizations

• Work closely with Product Owners, other scrum masters, business analyst and QA to progress along squad agenda

• Plan and conduct Agile meetings/ceremonies Sprint planning, host story grooming, daily stand up, test plan and test cases 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.

• 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.

• Coordinate with partner technology teams on deployment preparations and execution (e.g., deployment script management, support team review and documentation, host deployment verification calls, and lead deployment issue resolutions).

• 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.

• Takes ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through scrum-of-scrum ceremony

• Monitor team performance and balance workload and help identify continuous improvement opportunities to help the team work more efficiently

• Partner with Agile Coaches to identify and implement team Agile training requirements

Required Skills

• 10+ years of experience in a large complex banking organization or a similar organization (e.g. major consulting organization)

• Skilled Scrum Master with minimum 5+ year experience as scrum master

• Skilled in Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies

• Ability to understand system flows, interface details and system infrastructure

• Excellent relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications.

• Ability to develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents; including identifying and managing project dependencies and critical path.

• Ability to Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to improve Agile performance.

• Ability to Review and manage backlog items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate

• Experience in creating a collaborative team environment and provide constructive feedback in order to drive Agile maturity.

• Ability to proactively manage change in project scope, identify potential issues, and devise contingency

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

• Detail oriented, organized, self-motivated, and ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

• Strong familiarity with Agile project management software/tools (e.g., JIRA, etc.).

• Proficient with Jira, MS Office applications: Excel, MS Project, Visio, Word, and PowerPoint.

Desired (not mandatory)

• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification