Technical Scrum Master

About the Role

• Location: Chennai
• Work Mode: 5 Days in a week
• Facilitate custom application development projects using Agile methodology.
• Coordinate with different project, business teams, scrum teams, technical teams, and end-users in achieving corporate deliverables on-time.
• Capture meeting notes and track action items.
• Strong interaction with the Business, Business Process Engineer, Super Users, Systems Analysts, Software Specialists, UX Developers and Project Managers is essential.
• Collaborate with other IT and Business teams to enable the Project teams with high delivery standards.
• Facilitate the end-to-end lifecycle of AIML models, including ideation, prototyping, experimentation, production deployment, and ongoing monitoring.
• Implement changes and steps to increase the team’s productivity.
• Collaborate with other scrum masters to improve the methodologies’ efficiency.
• Remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics.
• Support SAFe principles and practices, identifying and eliminating impediments, and facilitating flow.
• Helps the team coordinate with other teams on the Agile Release Train (ART).
• Able to collaborate and work closely with Cloud/Infrastructure team and handle change requests/deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Display Servant leadership and enable the Agile practices within the team through practice.
• Solid experience in Sprint activities, identifying priorities and dependencies.
• Good experience in effectively managing the product backlog using JIRA.
• Arrange and optimize product backlog.
• Help communicate the owner’s wish list to the project team.
• Organize scrum ceremonies.
• Ensure project deliverables are delivered on time with the right quality as per IFF standard practice and guideline.
• Good Experience in Risk identification and mitigation.
• Track and control the schedule, resources, and costs.
• Coach Teams in Best Practices to achieve common project goals.
• Ability to drive 2 or more Scrum teams.
• Facilitate Scrum Collaborations and co-ordinate with the project stakeholders.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• AWS Cloud
• Angular
• JavaScript
• .Net
• HTML5/CSS
• SAP
• SAFe Agile practice
• Fundamental knowledge on cloud platform
• Prototyping Mindset in terms of Design thinking/Design Sprint approach

Qualifications

• Certifications:
• Preferred “SSM or SASM or SA” in SAFe practice
• PMI Certification (Good to have)
• Required Skills:
• Project Delivery/Reporting
• Lead and coach scrum adoption
• Team Management
• Preferred Skills:
• Competency: Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and experience in managing projects involving AI/ML technologies (good to have)
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to handle team dynamics.