Scrum Master at Deloitte Consulting

Job Description

Responsibilities:

The ideal candiate will be responsible for:

• Coaching the team to improve collaboration and self-organization.
• Coach team on Agile practices and encourage adaptation and iteration and an environment that fosters Agile.
• Collaborate across teams in IT and the business as required to remove impediments and deliver on time for all Sprints.
• Coach team members to properly define User Stories, while assisting the Product Owner to continually keep a sufficient set of stories defined and estimated.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews/demos, retrospectives, and release planning meetings for 2-3 product teams.
• Track and communicate team commitments, velocity, and sprint/release progress.
• Remove or escalate team impediments that jeopardize sprint goals
• Identify, suggest and collaborate with development and product owner on measurable improvements for the team(s)
• Coach, train and support other scrum masters within the organization

Experience of the Scrum Master

• 5 years’ experience in an agile scrum role is required.
• Exposure to ART (Agile Release Trains) and driving delivery through PI Planning would be advantageous.

Qualifications

Education/Certifications:

• CSM,  CSP, ITIL
• Business, Engineering,
• Business/Administration,
• Information Systems, Management, Technical, Information
• Technology, Communications

Additional Information

Key Competencies required:

Behavioural Competencies

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Effective interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Good mentorship and coaching ability with desire to develop self and others
• Strong client delivery focus
• Adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease
• Focus on quality and risk
• Sound problem solving ability