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As a Scrum Master at NTT DATA, you will guide teams in Agile practices, ensuring effective project delivery. You will facilitate Scrum ceremonies, manage cross-team alignment, and drive continuous improvement in processes. A bachelor's degree in Project Management or a related field is required, along with seasoned experience in Scrum Management and Agile concepts. Join us in a fast-paced, remote working environment!
Job Responsibility:
Fosters a self-organizing and empowered environment that enables teams to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget
Facilitates and leads Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
Ensures that teams adhere to the Scrum framework, follows agile best practices, and utilizes appropriate tools and metrics to track progress, identifies bottlenecks, and drives continuous improvement
Fosters effective communication and collaboration between cross-functional teams, product owners, and stakeholders
Acts as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring a shared understanding of the project goals, priorities, and timelines
Proactively addresses any conflicts or challenges that may hinder team performance and delivery
Collaboratively identifies and synchronizes project interdependencies across multiple teams. Facilitates effective resource allocation across the programs
Drives the continuous improvement of agile processes, methodologies, and tools across the organization. Identifies and implements process enhancements to optimize efficiency, productivity, and quality of deliverables
Encourages innovation to foster a culture of continuous leading and growth
Ensures the program benefits remain viable throughout the program, communicating status and date changes and actively manage dependencies
Builds strong relationships with key stakeholders and manages these expectations regarding project scope, timelines, and deliverables
Collaborates closely with product owners to prioritize backlog items and ensures alignment with business goals
Provides regular project status updates and communicates any risks or impediments that may impact project success
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Project Management or related field
Relevant certifications such as SAFe Scrum Master or SAFe Advanced Scrum Master preferred
Other related certifications and/or training (for example - SAFe DeVos, Implementing SAFe etc.)
Seasoned Scrum Master experience in an ICT environment, managing software projects and working with software development teams
Seasoned experience in Scrum Management
Seasoned experience of Agile concepts and principles
Seasoned experience as a coach and mentor in agile practices (Scrum, Kanban etc.)
Seasoned experience with contemporary software development methodologies
Seasoned experience with widely successful Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
Nice to have:
Ability to recognize the importance of working through others within the team through engaging and empowering others to use as much of their own capabilities as possible, thereby fostering trust and high energy to succeed
Has drive and energy to get the job done
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Assertive with the ability to come up with solutions to critical situations
Ability to make timely decisions and take calculated risks
Seasoned knowledge of other Agile approaches such as XP, Kanban, Scrum, extreme Programming (XP)
Seasoned knowledge of the technologies used by the team
Ability to coordinate large teams with cross-functional dependencies
Proactive and organized with the ability to work in a fast-paced, team environment providing consistent, high-quality output
Ability to facilitate discussions to allow the team to consider alternative solutions or approaches and bring disagreements out into the open to help to manage them collaboratively
Ability to stimulate and relish change, adapt quickly and see change as an opportunity