NTT America Solutions, Inc. Hiring for Scrum Master at Bangalore, India Full Time

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The Scrum Master guides and coaches teams in the use of scrum / agile practices. They boost the effectiveness of teams by managing key projects, championing cross team alignment and delivery success and operationalizing underlying processes to make development teams hum effectively. Scrum Masters resolve impediments, monitor and have control over the scrum processes and meetings.

Working at NTT

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Agile Leadership: Provides strong leadership and mentorship to specific teams, product owners, and stakeholders, guiding them in the adoption and implementation of agile principles and Scrum practices. Forsters a self-organizing and empowered environment that enables teams to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget

• Process facilitation: Facilitates and leads Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Ensures that teams adhere to the Scrum framework, follows agile best practices, and utilizes appropriate tools and metrics to track progress, identifies bottlenecks, and drives continuous improvement

• Collaboration and communication: Fosters effective communication and collaboration between cross-functional teams, product owners, and stakeholders. Acts as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring a shared understanding of the project goals, priorities, and timelines. Proactively addresses any conflicts or challenges that may hinder team performance and delivery. Collaboratively identifies and synchronizes project interdependencies across multiple teams. Facilitates effective resource allocation across the programs.

• Continuous improvement: Drives the continuous improvement of agile processes, methodologies, and tools across the organization. Identifies and implements process enhancements to optimize efficiency, productivity, and quality of deliverables. Encourages innovation to foster a culture of continuous leading and growth. Ensures the program benefits remain viable throughout the program, communicating status and date changes and actively manage dependencies.

• Stakeholder management: Builds strong relationships with key stakeholders and manages these expectations regarding project scope, timelines, and deliverables. Collaborates closely with product owners to prioritize backlog items and ensures alignment with business goals. Provides regular project status updates and communicates any risks or impediments that may impact project success.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Ability to recognise the importance of working through others within the team through engaging and empowering others to use as much of their own capabilities as possible, thereby fostering trust and high energy to succeed

• Has drive and energy to get the job done

• Ability to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Assertive with the ability to come up with solutions to critical situations

• Ability to make timely decisions and take calculated risks

• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Scrum, extreme Programming (XP) etc.

• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team

• Broad knowledge of software industry and technology trends

• Ability to co-ordinate large teams with cross-functional dependencies

• Proactive and organised with the ability to work in a fast-paced, team environment providing consistent, high-quality output

• Enthusiastic and demonstrates positive and high energy that inspires others to constancy achieve their goals

• Ability to lead the team to self-organisation

• Ability to embrace diversity and highly receptive to new ideas and people who are different, and constantly searching for new knowledge and new ideas and willing to learn better ways of doing things

• Ability to facilitate discussions to allow the team to consider alternative solutions or approaches and bring disagreements out into the open to help to manage them collaboratively

• Ability to stimulate and relish change, adapt quickly and see change as an opportunity

• Ability to think strategically and recognise the importance of long-term goals, as well as be committed to success

• Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects (typically with direct business impact and firm deadlines)

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Relevant degree or equivalent with typically a minimum of 5 years of related experience.

• SAFe Scrum Master or SAFe Advanced Scrum Master certification.

• Other related certifications and/or training (for example – SAFe DeVos, Implementing SAFe etc.).

Required Experience:

• Seasoned Scrum Master experience in an ICT environment, managing software projects and working with software development teams

• Seasoned experience in Scrum Management

• Good knowledge of Agile concepts and principles

• Seasoned experience as a coach and mentor in agile practices (Scrum, Kanban etc.)

• Seasoned experience with contemporary software development methodologies

• Seasoned experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games

Skills Summary

Agile Methodology, Agile Scrum Development, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Deadline Management, Deliverables Management, Development Methodologies, Scrum Software Development, Software Development Teams, Software Project Management, Virtual Teams

What will make you a good fit for the role?

Workplace type :

Hybrid Working

Equal Opportunity Employer

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