Deep Sector - General - Scrum Master
- Factset Systems India
- 4 - 8 years
- Hyderabad
- 4 years ago
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Job Description
Job Description :The Scrum Master acts as the servant leader and coach for one or more delivery teams within the organization. An effective Scrum Master promotes attributes of a high functioning dedicated agile team, include perpetuating team dynamics of support and value driven delivery, protecting the teams from outside interference, removing impediments, facilitating Scrum rituals, driving continuous improvement and promoting healthy Agile practices within the teams and across the organization. As part of a larger community of agile practitioners, he/she is an advocate of Agile practices both within the team and the organization.
Attributes of a Highly Successful Candidate:
- Servant Leader: Empathetic and effective leader that builds trust and focuses on the needs of the team
- Facilitative: Effective listener, relies on observation and skills tool-kit to bring team members together, stimulate collaborative behaviors and discussion, drive successful conflict resolution
- Assertive: Ensures Agile concepts and principles are followed while allowing maximum flexibility based on team needs that drive delivery of business value. Strong enough to act as objective voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls as part of a collaborative process with product management, development and leadership
- Intuitive Insightful: Ability to recognize issues and risks within the team or with outside teams, elevate as needed, and bring to resolution
- Continuous Improvement Mindset: Challenges the team and greater organization to reflect and improve; as an individual motivated to learn new tools and techniques to accomplish this
- Knowledgeable: Able to assess the team s agile maturity and coaches to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
Responsibilities
- Ensure Agile teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
- Shields team from interferences and removes impediments
- Helps the team become self-managed and cross-functional
- Fosters a team environment that encourages team members to both seek help from within the team and lean-in to help the team achieve sprint goals
- Partner with Product Owner to manage backlog
- Facilitates scrum/agile events
- Work with team to identify capacity to ensure they can meet the sprint objectives
- Participate in discussions related to trade-offs to bring in new work
- Progress reporting and sprint metrics for teams
- Active participation in the maturation process of the Agile model and methodologies within the organization
Qualifications
- Bachelor s Degree from an accredited college or university
- At least 5 years experience working in a software development organization, preferably in an agile environment
- Familiarity with one or more Agile methodologies such as Scrum, XP, Kanban
- Scrum Master Certification preferred
- Exceptional communication/interpersonal skills and organizational skills
- Willingness to provide direct and honest feedback to team members
- Excellent facilitation and mentoring skills
- Ability to effectively interact with all layers of the organization
- Ability to work effectively in a team setting
- High level of motivation
- Familiarity with development tools such as Jira, Rally, GitHub preferred
Job Classification
Industry: IT-Software / Software ServicesFunctional Area: IT Software - Application Programming, Maintenance,
Role Category: QA/Testing/Documentation
Role: QA/Testing/Documentation
Employement Type: Full time
Education
Under Graduation: Any Graduate in Any SpecializationPost Graduation: Any Postgraduate in Any Specialization
Doctorate: Doctorate Not Required
Contact Details:
Company: FactSet Systems IndiaLocation(s): Hyderabad
Keyskills: Product management Trade Interpersonal skills github Conflict resolution Agile Scrum Management Continuous improvement JIRA
Factset Systems India
FactSet is a leading provider of financial data and analytic applications for investment management and investment banking professionals around the globe. FactSet offers instant access to financial data and analytics to thousands of analysts, portfolio managers, and investment bankers at the worl...
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