Must have skills:

• First level Scrum Master Certification (Certified Scrum Master [CSM], Professional Scrum Master Level 1 [PSM I])
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to work independently and manage client stakeholders at individual level.
  • Experience playing the Scrum Master role for number of years for software development teams that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
  • Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
  • Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills
• Well versed with agile ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective etc.)
• Ability to articulate clearly technical challenges and dependencies to the management team.
• Awareness of Docker based release management process
• Experience of working on large programmes having number of cross-functional teams.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• 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
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
• Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
• 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
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• 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.

Awareness of Tech Stack

• Microservices Architecture,
• Kafka connect
• AWS,
• Java,
• Python advanced (celery, multithreading),
• PLSQL,
• React JS,
• Node JS,
• Postgres,
• Kubernetes,
• Helm,
• Jenkins/Any CI
• Docker,
• Ansible,
• Vault,
• Consul Services,
• GIT
• Selenium,
• Junit/TestNG,
• Cucumber/Gherkin,
• REST/API Testing,
• SOAPUI/Postman

Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus)

• Any past experience of developing software would be a big plus
• Previous experience as a team lead
• Second level Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM II)
• Understanding of SAFE principles and techniques.
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team
• Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)