Scrum Master - Chennai - BNP Paribas - 3 to 5

Direct Responsibilities

• Quick learner, Creative thinker, like to own work.

• As working remotely, available to team when in work. Very good written and verbal communication.

• Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.

• Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.

• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.

• Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.

• Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.

• Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

• Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.

• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.

• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

• Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual (BAU) work and to a lesser degree, important department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.

• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups

• Help build a productive environment where team members own the product and enjoy working on it

Contributing Responsibilities

The Scrum Master will have following responsibilities:

• Identify risks and provide mitigation plan. Escalate issues on timely manner to the leads.

• Work Autonomously by taking ownership

• Self-motivation and good team spirit

• Proactive Communication on issues / risks / status

• Punctuality

• The resource should possess excellent written verbal communication skills

• Self-motivated, work very proactively

Technical Behavioral Competencies

• 7 to 12 years of total experience in a banking IT projects

• Minimum 3 years experience as a Scrum Master

• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)

• Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles

• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills

• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices

• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques

• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

• Scrum master certification is a plus

Specific Qualifications (if required)

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills : (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Ability to deliver / Results driven

Decision Making

Transversal Skills:

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Ability to develop and adapt a process

Analytical Ability

Education Level:

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5 years