Scrum Master - Project Manager Job

Experience

8-10 Years

Job Description

Qualifications:
 
- Experience Range- 8 to 10
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification.
- Proven experience as a Scrum Master or Project Manager in an Agile environment.
- Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum principles.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
- Strong problem-solving and conflict-resolution abilities.
 
Responsibilities:
 
- Lead Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
- Work closely with product owners and development teams to ensure clear understanding of goals and deliverables.
- Facilitate the removal of impediments and promote continuous improvement.
- Track project progress and manage timelines, budgets, and resources.
- Ensure alignment with organizational goals by coordinating with stakeholders.
- Provide regular updates and reports on project status to senior management.
- Mentor and coach teams on Agile practices to enhance their efficiency and productivity.
 
Skills:
 
-Scrum.
-Agile methodologies.
-Project management.
-JIRA.
-Confluence.
-Team facilitation.
-Risk management.
-Stakeholder management.
-Conflict resolution.
-Time management.

Required Technical/ Functional Competencies

Agile Principles and Practices:

• Has in-depth knowledge and experience of Agile principles and practices.
• Able to teach, mentor, and coach others on Agile and its applications in Scrum.

Scrum Framework:

• Have good understanding of the scrum framework.
• Able to apply the Scrum framework in real-life projects, and facilitate Scrum events effectively, such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

Facilitation:

• Has good understanding of facilitation skills and techniques.
• Able to facilitate Scrum events effectively, such as by using visual aids, asking open-ended questions, and promoting collaboration and engagement among team members.

Continuous Improvement:

• Has good knowledge of continuous improvement concepts.
• Able to identify improvement opportunities and implement changes effectively, such as by conducting retrospectives, analyzing data, and experimenting with new practices and tools.

Required Behavioral Competencies

Accountability:

• Being a role model for taking initiative and ensuring others take initiative, removing obstacles for others, taking ownership for results and deadlines for self and others, and acting as a role model for being responsible.

Agility:

• Works with a diverse set of situations, people and groups and adapts and motivates self and team to thrive in changing environment.

Collaboration:

• Reaches out to others in team to ensure connections are made and team members are working together.
• Looks for ways to integrate work with other teams, identifying similarities and opportunities, making necessary changes in work to ensure successful integration.

Customer Focus:

• Engages in executive customer discovery to predict future needs of customers and drives customer relationships with a long-term focus and takes actions to enhance customer loyalty.

Communication:

• Communicates and presents complex ideas, information, and data to multiple, broad, and demanding stakeholders internal and/or external to the Organization.
• Helps others communicate better with their audience. Demonstrates honest, direct, and transparent communication and facilitates conversations within the team and its close collaborators.

Drives Results:

• Proactively seeks challenging and differentiated opportunities and drives and motivates team members to take on more responsibility.

Resolves Conflict:

• Balances the business interests of all stakeholders and manages any conflicts offering mutually beneficial options.

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