SAFe Scrum Master

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Organization      : TECHWAVE (http://www.techwave.net/">http://www.techwave.net/)

Requirement     : SAFe Scrum Master

Experience         : 8+ Years

Job type               : Permanent

Location               : Hyderabad

Role Requirements

• Coaching the scrum team and organisation on how to use scaled agile practices and values with a preference for use of the Scale Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Facilitating scaled agile ceremonies and coaching teams on best-practises, supporting with advancement and improvement of scaled agile within the organisation.
• Guiding the scrum team on self-organisation and cross-functionality.
• Guides and coaches the scrum team on how to use agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
• Ensures teams attain a high-performance level in the practice of scrum delivery by recognising areas of strength and improvement, employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
• Responsible for ensuring scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
• Coaches the scrum team in self-organisation, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the scrum team.
• Works with the scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organisational project or product teams.
• Resolves team impediments with other scrum masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Works with Agile coaches and other scrum masters to grow within the role.
• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of agile practices within the organisation.
• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Acts as a leader who coaches and supports agile teams assigned to ongoing change delivery and broader  department initiatives, business and corporate initiatives.

Technical Experience

• Demonstrable experience within a scrum master role and familiarity with a payment’s processing institution.
• Knowledge of a scaled agile framework (techniques and artifacts) and understanding of software development life cycle models.
• Proven experience with scum techniques such as at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity and retrospection.
• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other scrum techniques.
• Experience coaching organisations and scrum teams in an agile framework.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships and work collaboratively with and through others.
• Experience with tools such as JIRA, SharePoint, and Confluence plus knowledge of SSDLC and agile / Lean methodologies, exemplifying and promoting associated values and principles.
• Experience in a highly analytical, results-oriented environment with cross-functional interactions.
• Strong collaboration and influence skills to effectively lead cross-functional teams to drive deliverables, projects, and engagements to completion.
• Strong experience of software testing lifecycle and techniques such as unit, integration, acceptance, regression test and the use of mocks and stubs.
• Ability to break down and solve complex problems and follow solutions through to completion.
• Ability to function autonomously, exercise sound decision-making skills, and serve as an advocate for business goals and objectives.
• Planning and problem solving with Product Management and Solution Delivery teams.

Education / Qualifications / Training

• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an agile team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Scaled Agile Scrum Master certification preferred.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques.
• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Must have led teams of technical analysts, software developers and QA test analysts.
• More than comfortable in an ambiguous matrixed organisation.