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PRINCIPLE PURPOSE OF JOB The purpose of this position is to Nurture self-organizing, high performing teams through servant leadership and mentoring. Facilitates Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Stakeholder Demos and Sprint Retrospectives. Also, participates in Release Planning with Product & Portfolio teams. Conducts team assessments & improvise team’s velocity/ throughput. Overall 12+ years of IT experience, where last 5 years working as Agile Manager/ Scrum Master and certified SAFe Agilist. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES • Managing more than one scrum/ Kanban teams • Doing everything possible to ensure delighting customers • Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers • Guiding the team to be self-organized and cross functional. • Guiding and facilitating teams to drive through release on demand implementing DevOps/CI/CD practices. • Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization • Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment. • Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving. • Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work. • Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution • Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information • Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog. • Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example • Expertise knowledge & experience JIRA and JIRA align tools • Experience in measuring various Sprint/Agile metrics and work towards improvement sprint over sprint. • Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition • Good working knowledge and experience in agile engineering practices BDD, TDD, ATDD, Continuous integration • Certified CSM or PSM • Recommended SAFe Agilist (SA)KEY CONSTITUENTS • Product Owner • Business Analyst • Delivery Team • Technical working groupRELEVANT EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS • Masters or bachelor’s in engineering in IT/ Electronics / Communication / Computer Science / Information Systems. • 10 + years in IT development with 5 years in Agile Scrum & Kanban experience as Scrum Master. • Exposure to Agile / TDD / BDD based development • Exposure to Continues Integration, deployment & static code analysis Jenkins, Sonar • Organizational skills with ability to be flexible and work with minimal direction • Ability to work well independently and in a team environment • Troubleshoot bottlenecks and propose changes to fix them SKILLS & COMPETENCIES • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Strong organizational skills and adaptive capacity for rapidly changing priorities and workloads • Ability to work well independently and maintain focus in a highly dynamic work environment. • Comfort in working with team members that are remote and located in the US, India or other geographies • Ability to work within a matrix organization • Familiarity with DevOps practices and guiding and facilitating discussions to enable release on demand.