We Are Hiring Japanese Bilingual Scrum Master

Join one of the leading Big4 organizations and work with global teams on exciting Agile transformation projects.

Location : Bangalore / Hyderabad / Chennai / Mumbai/Pune/Kolkata/Delhi

Experience Required : 5+ Years

About the Role :

The Scrum Master is responsible for facilitating the Scrum process and ensuring the teams effectiveness in delivering high-quality products.

The Scrum Master is a key member of an Agile team, responsible for facilitating the Scrum process, coaching team members in Agile best practices, and ensuring the teams effectiveness in delivering high-quality products. The Scrum Master acts as a servant leader, removing impediments and fostering a collaborative, transparent, and high-performing team environment.

Responsibilities :

- Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies : Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.

- Coach Agile Practices : Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to deliver value.

- Remove Impediments : Actively work to identify and eliminate obstacles that may hinder the teams progress.

- Support Product Owner : Assist the Product Owner with backlog management, refinement, and ensuring clear communication of goals and priorities.

- Promote Team Collaboration : Foster open communication, collaboration, and self-organization within the team.

- Drive Continuous Improvement : Encourage a culture of learning, adaptation, and continuous improvement through regular feedback and process enhancements.

- Maintain Scrum Artifacts : Ensure transparency by maintaining and sharing Scrum artifacts such as the product backlog, sprint backlog, and burndown charts.

- Stakeholder Communication : Serve as a liaison between the team and stakeholders, ensuring alignment and managing expectations.

- Monitoring : Track and measure progress and quality against Sprint Plan, DoD, Quality, Delivery Flow metrics.

Qualifications :

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience).

- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent Agile certification (SAFe Agilist good to have).

- 4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar Agile role working in POD model and facilitating collaboration across multiple PODs through events like the Scrum of Scrums.

- Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) cleared at level N2 or higher.

Required Skills :

- Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies, especially Scrum and scaled Agile environment (SAFe).

- Excellent facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills.

- Experience working with cross-functional teams catering to complex business environments operating at scale in hybrid work environments.

- Understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC), aspects of project planning and estimation, risk identification, capacity and dependency resolution.

- Ability to coach and mentor team members on Agile best practices on Lean delivery practices and product delivery tools such as JIRA boards.

- Strong problem-solving and conflict resolution skills. Collaborate with scrum teams to achieve faster impediment resolution and dependency mitigation.

- Proficient in Agile project management tools (such as Jira, Jira Align, Azure DevOps, and Rally), with experience building dashboards to enhance transparency of delivery metrics.

- Enable teams to deliver value by leveraging flow metrics, Objective Key Results (OKRs), and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

- Basic understanding of version control systems (e.g., GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket), CI/CD Processes, Release Management.

- Basic understanding of key deployment strategies in Release Management (e.g., A/B testing, Canary Releases, Blue-Green Deployment, Rolling Deployment).

Preferred Skills :

Skill Area Details :

- Agile Methodologies : SDLC, Agile, Scrum, and SAFe

- Agile Coaching & Training : Ability to coach on Agile, Lean delivery, JIRA

- Agile Tools & Dashboards : Jira, Jira Align, Azure DevOps, Rally

- Value Delivery & Metrics : Flow metrics, OKRs, and KPIs

- Version Control & CI/CD : GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, CI/CD processes, release management

- Deployment Strategies : A/B testing, Canary, Blue-Green, and Rolling Deployments

- Certifications : CSM, PSM, SAFe Agilist, SPC