Scrum Master - Pune - Rockwell Automation - 4

Position Summary

The Scrum Master is a member of an agile software development team, with responsibility of 1-2 agile teams. The Scrum Master is a servant leader who helps the team self-organize, self-manage, and achieve its goals via effective Agile, Lean, and ScrumXP practices. The scrum master understands and effectively applies and coaches Agile and Lean principles within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and creates and maintains an environment for continuous learning and relentless improvement.. This role helps the agile team coordinate dependencies with other teams and communicates status of these dependencies as needed. The position collaborates with other agile teams to identify, promote, and adopt best practices and lessons learned to optimize team and program performance. When you join our software engineering group, you become part of a team that believes in knowledge sharing and collaboration and that is committed to using reliable and well-thought-out engineering practices and technology to overcome any challenges. We are looking for someone who will effectively leverage and learn from a diverse set of technical backgrounds and opinions by fostering a team-oriented environment and the use of open and direct communications, honesty and respect.
This role reports to the Software Engineering Manager and is located in Pune What you will do

• Guide teams toward objectives, goals, and continuous improvement, initiate and foster collaboration, communication, and team building
• Work to remove impediments in the organization so that the team can remain focused on achieving its goals, facilitate team and program improvement
• Help ensure the team follows ScrumXP/Agile best practices and product development processes
• Help the team achieve and improve in areas including quality, predictability, flow, and velocity
• Facilitate ScrumXP, Agile and SAFe rituals including Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning, mid-Sprint review, Demo, Retrospective, and Inspect and Adapt workshops
• Coordinate solution implementation and delivery with other Scrum Masters and external teams
• Effective and timely communication to all levels of the organization, including progress tracking and reporting
• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team and program see how they are doing
• Balance changes in direction or requirements while protecting the team so the team can achieve committed objectives
• Collaborate with Product Owners to ensure team execution and performance are aligned with business objectives near and long-term
• Coordinates team efforts under architectural and portfolio governance
• Collaborates with an engineering manager to build an agile culture in teams

Qualifications

Minimal qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering, with concentration in software; or equivalent knowledge in the areas of software engineering (software requirements analysis, software design, software testing).

• Minimum of 10 years experience in Software Development/Test, Applications Engineering work, Technical Support, or other related role
• Minimum of 4 years experience in an Agile development environment

• In depth knowledge of agile methodologies and techniques is preferred
• Previous experience in a technical leadership role preferred