Senior Consultant | APM: Scrum Master | Gurgaon| Finance Transformation

About the position

Looking for a Scrum Master who would be accountable to setup, evolve & drive the scrum structure, including all ceremonies & the metrics for the platform teams within the guidelines laid out by client. Candidates should be able to create the environment for a team to deliver value, be highly independent, confident in their abilities and flexible enough to adapt to an evolving landscape.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
• Solid exposure to the product-platform ways of working in an Agile environment.
• Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Upskills team members and facilitates end of sprint retros - contribute to the teams understanding of their in-sprint performance.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.

Requirements

• Overall, 4 to 8 years of experience
• Hands on experience as Scrum Master at least for 3-4 years
• Experience in Project Management Tools
• CSM/equivalent certification
• Excellent Coaching skills
• Bachelors in engineering (preferably Computer Science) or equivalent
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
• Experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques to enhance the Scrum approach (e.g., progress visualization techniques, retrospective formats, approaches for handling bugs, etc.)

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge and experience of other agile, lean and DevOps approaches (e.g., XP, Kanban, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent coaching and mentoring skills