Function : Group IT

Office/Location : chennai

Job Title : Scrum Master

Reports To : Product manager

Workplace Values :

The post holder will be expected to operate in line with and fully adopt our Workplace Values, which are :

Global Perspective

We connect the world and see the bigger picture.

The Power of People

We rely on the strength of local agent knowledge and relationships.

Progress

We adopt new thinking and push for positive change in our industry.

Job Purpose :

Plan and deliver business critical product development.

Ensure that the development team follows the scrum framework and agile practices.

Mentor and motivate the team to improve processes, facilitate meetings/ceremonies and decision-making processes.

Eliminate team impediments.

Duties and Responsibilities :

- Use agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.

- Mentor and support the scrum team to follow agile values, principles, and practices.

- Collaborate with the Product Manager/Product Owner to build high functioning development teams

- Determine and manage tasks, issues, risks, and action items.

- In collaboration with the Product Manager/Product Owner, ensure there is a prioritized backlog of user stories.

- Facilitate a collaborative planning and estimating process.

- In collaboration with the Product Manager/Product Owner, prioritise, refine and include L3 tickets in the sprint backlog.

- Schedule and facilitate scrum ceremonies (e.g. daily stand-ups, retros etc) and decision-making processes.

- Monitor progress and performance using appropriate metrics and help the team to make improvements.

- Champion continuous improvement.

- Plan and organize demos.

- Ensure the proper use of collaborative processes and remove impediments for the scrum team.

- Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to understand and track dependencies between teams.

- Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to improve the agile practice and ways of working.

- Support the Product Manager/Product Owner by preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

Person Specification :

Knowledge :

- Relevant degree in information technology or related field

- Ability to lead, influence and work with people belonging to different cultures.

- Plan and manage Product delivery

- Knowledge of full stack software engineering and modern delivery practices

- Thorough knowledge of the entire software development life cycle with experience in delivering critical product / projects

- Knowledge of application integrations and API

- Strong analytical and conceptual ability to function both at detail and conceptual level

Skills :

- Certified scrum master

- Project management practices

- Agile delivery practices

- Excellent team management skills

- Excellent communication skills

- Strong collaborative and partner approach

- Jira & Confluence

- Must have come from the software development background using .NET technologies

- Understanding of AWS cloud native development using EC2, Lambda, S3, Simple Que Service etc.,

- Experience with any middleware platform and Database technologies will be an added advantage

Experience :

- 5+ years of agile delivery management experience

- Ability to manage scrum teams of experienced full stack engineers

- Management if teams that built and maintained business critical products / applications

- Exposure to Business-critical systems integrations & RPA

- Experience in handling DevOps & site reliability engineering teams will be an added advantage

Other Requirements :

- Ability to travel (national and international) and work flexibility

- Able to work from home

QHSSE Health, Safety, Security and Environment (Mandatory requirements)

- Championing appropriate health, safety, security and environment (HSSE) risk assessments becomes part of the company culture.

- Accountable for the implementation and monitoring of actions that mitigate risk and enhance controls/processes, to ensure that QHSSE of all Inchcape Stakeholders are known and staff/suppliers/crew feel empowered and accountable for their own safety.

- Ensure full compliance with, and implementation of, the Inchcape QHSSE Management System