ZapCom - Senior Scrum Master - Project Management

Skill : Scrum Master with Project Management. Exp : 7 Years. Loc : Bangalore & Hyderabad. Roles and Responsibilities : Essential Functions : - Job entails combining project management practices with agile development requirements. - It also involves team management, planning, customer and process management. - They can cross multiple business divisions and are responsible for assigning work and getting the status of the work completed. - Fulfills the functions of an Agile Scrum Master; runs the software development planning and delivery process. - Providing servant leadership and building multiple high-performing Agile teams. - Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts. - Leverages Jira and Confluence to elicit and define business and technical requirements, track requirements, prioritize features, curate content, sequence deliverables into sprints, and report progress. - Leads Increment and sprint planning sessions and documents resulting story boards and Responsible for maintenance and tracking of sprint backlog and prioritization. - Facilitates the daily scrum Ceremonies and supports delivery teams (pods) in execution of scrum methodology. - Documents and leads remediation / removal of blockers during sprints. - Responsible to Monitor, Measure, & Report Progress of the team (SMART and SWOT analysis of members) including burndown charts, team velocity. - Ensure good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team. - Builds and coaches high performing teams. - Good problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills, with the ability to coach and mentor all roles on a scrum team. - Inspire people to deliver key results, demonstrate the passion for the business. - Adapt current methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems. - Use considerable judgment to determine solution and seeks guidance on complex problems. Essential Agile Knowledge and Skills : - Expert knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, and familiarity with Jira and Confluence tools. - Working knowledge of banking audit and regulatory practices; ensures that projects under their responsibility are fully compliant with corporate standards. - Strong communications and interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to quickly build trust and relationships, manage matrixed teams, bridge communication gaps, resolve conflicts, and influence stakeholders. - Strong technical aptitude and ability to quickly learn new products, lines of business, processes, software, systems, and client needs. - Effective risk management skills and ability to predict and mitigate risks and issues, as well as anticipating and proactively preparing for changes and impacts to clients' businesses. - Active listening, persuasiveness to gain buy-in, consensus, and cooperation in the face of conflicting viewpoints, resistance to change, constraints, etc. - Good at building relationships and navigating through organizations. Essential Competencies : - Assertive : Experience with working teams in adhering to Agile/Scrum concepts and principles and knowing when teams are not ready; must be able to be a voice of reason. - Attitude of empowerment : Must be able to guide team(s) to self-organization. - Attitude of transparency : Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to both business and IT and build trust amongst partners. - Collaborative : Ability to partner with others to achieve goals at various levels throughout the organization and lead others to do so by example. - Communicative and social : Must be able to communicate well with all levels of the organization from Scrum team members to release train leadership. - Conflict resolution : Must be able to facilitate discussion at the team level and facilitate alternatives or different approaches. - Continual improvement : Must continually be growing one's craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team. - Facilitative : Must be able to lead by example and demonstrate value-add principles to scrum team(s). - Brings a high-energy and passionate outlook to the job and can influence those around her/him. - Able to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable & effective workplace. Essential Education and Experience : - 5 yrs of IT experience serving as Agile Scrum master's in planning and delivering software solutions, such as online and mobile user experiences, underlying transactional systems, and integrating disparate systems,. - Familiar with various software development methodologies (e.g., agile, waterfall) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), incl. processes, roles and responsibilities, entry and exit criteria, and key deliverables for each stage - Experience organizing and Ability to coach and mentor. - Ability to understand business and technology concepts quickly and able to facilitate those conversations primarily around Banking domain. - Experience with distributed Agile teams. - Scrum of Scrums / Complex ecosystem (ref:hirist.tech)

Location: Bangalore, IN

Posted Date: 5/2/2024