Scrum Master

Agile Scum Master
We are seeking and exceptional individual (Servant Leader); to lead a high performing Agile team in Scaled agile transformation. As a true Servant Leader Lead by example exhibit managing the team and being authoritative & biased
You will be Guardian of agile ways of working & enabler for high performing team. The key focus of this role will be to inspire influence and guide the team in best practices of agile development methodology like Scrum /Kanban/Lean/TDD/BDD and other technical agility tractices. Ensures that the teams work is aligned with the Programs agreed design principles engineering practices governance and quality standards.

Mentor team to meet be selforganized and take ownership of sprint goals PI Objectives and providing coaching and guidance as needed to grow capability and productivity.

YOUR POWER PLAY ROLE

Reporting to the Global Agile Practice Director (COE & Practice) and aligned to an RTE of Agile Release Train you will be empowered to:

Showcase manage and enhance your team coach competencies to build a performing team and train the team in Scrum BuiltinQuality Kanban SAFe and ensure that the agreed Agile processes/practices are followed.
Empowered to Create and maintains physiological safety and team trust & live by Lean Agile Values
Facilitate various Scrum activities & represent team in all ART level events for alignment
Coaching team on agile mindset ways of working and culture on continuous improvement
Acting as servant leader to Remove roadblocks reported by the team which could require crossteam collaboration or working with different leads
Train guide and mentor the teams on agile practices consistent with team standards and helping them achieve their commitments and objectives day to day sprinttosprint.
Improving the agile culture by coaching via gamifications Kaizen Agile maturity assessments and measuring help team to improve in velocity and Sprint success and strive for continuous improvement
Establish strong working relationships with other teams across the organization to identify dependencies and align priorities and deliverables
A clear mechanism or tool to report up status risks and impediments create and measure teams according to metrics established by the team. Create dashboards and maintain metrics at team level as per standards defined by LACE
Anticipate challenges identify risks and recommend mitigations and solutions. Own and drive those solutions.
Facilitating teams backlog creation running scrum events including inception workshops User Story mapping workshops Prioritization techniques estimations etc. (must have) awareness on test & release automation practices etc. so that they can guide & bring in right people to provide solutions
Work with product owners and stakeholders to ensure they are well engaged with the team and part of the regular feedback loop.
Identify resources constraints or needs when additional resources (HW technical or human) are needed to remove impediments and distractions from the team
Lead continuous improvement efforts with teams by implementing takeaways from retrospectives and implementing concrete solutions to make the teams more efficient and improve delivery success.
Helping team on improving the engineering & automation practices so knowledge of fundamentals of software development processes engineering practices and procedures is must
Helping teams with use of Agile ALM tools and processes Knowledge of Jira/any tool as per project need
Focus on building high performance teams by continuously learning & coaching team on growth mindset
Exceptional leadership Conflict handling & management interpersonal communications investigative negotiation collaboration and virtual management skills

Work Experience
Overall 10 experience as a Scrum Master
Must have recent work experience of 5 years as a scrum master in a Lab biotech or pharma company managing development and/or IT projects.
Well versed in running agile team ceremonies/events
Business Acumen specifically experience in diagnostics space and has high level technical understanding (needed to be effective with the team)
Leading Agile teams in distributed agile environment (onshore offshore model)
Certified Scrum Master and Certified SAFe Scrum Master
5 years of relevant experience and Proficiency with Agile tools and methodology
Extensive experience in creating the dashboards and generating Agile metrics for the team
Experience in Rally and Jira