Job Title:  Consultant | APM: Scrum Master | Bengaluru | Finance Transformation | Finance Strategy

The team

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Your work profile

SAFe Scrum master should be able to create the environment for a team to deliver value, be highly independent, confident in their abilities and flexible enough to adapt to an evolving landscape.

• Facilitate Agile Events: Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure smooth execution
• Coach Agile Teams: Guide teams in Agile best practices, ensuring adherence to Scrum, SAFe, or other Agile frameworks
• Remove Impediments: Identify and address blockers that hinder team progress, collaborating with stakeholders for resolution
• Foster Collaboration: Facilitate communication and coordination between teams, Product Owners, and leadership to ensure alignment and transparency
• Ensure Agile Maturity: Continuously assess and improve team Agile maturity, coaching teams to self-organize and deliver value efficiently
• Support Product Ownership: Partner with Product Owners to refine and prioritize the backlog, ensuring clarity in user stories and acceptance criteria
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Encourage feedback loops, innovation, and iterative improvements through Inspect & Adapt workshops
• Develop Daily Performance Management Practices: Implement and promote daily performance management techniques to track team progress, identify areas for improvement, and drive operational efficiency
• Foster Problem-Solving and Kaizen Culture: Encourage teams to embrace a problem-solving mindset through structured approaches like root cause analysis, retrospectives, and continuous learning initiatives
• Risk & Dependency Management: Identify risks early and work with leadership and cross-functional teams to mitigate dependencies
• Champion Agile Transformation: Promote Agile mindset and principles across the organization, fostering a culture of agility and adaptability
• Navigate Organizational Challenges: Manage stakeholder expectations, influence decision-making, and navigate political complexities to ensure successful Agile adoption
• Motivate Teams: Keep the team engaged, empowered, and aligned to business goals while fostering a psychologically safe work environment
• Facilitate Critical Conversations: Manage conflicts constructively and drive resolution through open, honest communication
• Collaborate with Engineering Teams: Work closely with engineering teams to coach and guide them in adopting Agile Engineering practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), DevOps, and automation strategies to improve software quality and delivery efficiency

Key skills required

·      Overall 6-9 years of experience of which minimum 5 years must have been as Scrum Master

·      Hands-on experience as Scrum Master for SAFe projects

·      Hands-on experience in Software Life Cycle (SDLC), waterfall, hybrid and agile projects

·      Experience in using SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Lean Agile frameworks

·      Experience in Project Management tools such as JIRA, ADO etc.

·      Leading SAFe 6.0 and CSM / PSM equivalent certification

·      Bachelors in Engineering / MBA

·      PMP® certification, Agile or SAFe certification preferred

·      Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

·      Excellent coaching and mentoring skills