Scrum Master III - Technical Project and Program Management
Cencora
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Coach the development team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum practices, ceremonies, mindset, processes, methods, and effective ways of working while also helping in improving adherence to best practices
- Create an environment that empowers and energizes team members, with a focus on accountability, adaptability and collaboration while fostering self-accountability and individual empowerment
- Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other scrum-related meetings
- Guide the groups they work with by providing meaningful feedback and effectively facilitate retrospectives to pull actionable changes for the team
- Use empirical data to help the teams assess their Scrum Maturity and optimize velocity to attain organizational KPIs while also helping to identify improvement opportunities
- Ensure the development teams practice core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility and cross functional coordination (analysts, developers, and testers)
- Work with Development managers to manage team capacity, with enterprise leadership to determine staffing requirements and assist with identifying resources to be procured from inside / outside the organization
- Ensure scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests and critical issues are effectively communicated to the client and project/program team and assist in change management
- Develop and maintain a productive working relationship with both internal and external team members including executive business owners, product managers and vendors
- Conduct formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction to track and measure client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendations
- Preferred experience with managing eCommerce type agile development work and teams.
- Bachelor's degree in business, Management, Information Systems or Engineering
- Scrum Master certification / CSP / PMI-ACP / Related certification required, Mandatory - SaFE Certification
- 6 - 8 years of IT experience including prior Scrum Master experience
- Collaborative Approach
- Strong Influencing Skills
- Task Prioritization
- Time Management
- Strategic Thinking
- Planning and Organizational Skills
- Foster Positive Work Environment
- Strong Communication and Presentation Skills
- Analytical and Problem-solving skills
- Ownership and Initiative – taking
- KPI development and sprint performance monitoring
- Negotiation Management
- Mentorship Skills
- Technical aptitude to work closely with software engineers
- Competent understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Thorough knowledge of both agile and waterfall methodologies on technically complex projects
- Foundational understanding of Design Thinking, User Centered Design and Organizational Change Management (OCM) concepts
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Applications including MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio
- Knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps
- Understanding of Project and Portfolio Management tools e.g., Clarity, Open Workbench