Scrum Master Professional
Job Req ID: 36697
Posting Date: 17 Sep 2024
Function: Software Engineering
Unit: Digital
Location:
RMZ Ecoworld, Devarabeesanahal, Bengaluru, India
Salary: Competitive
Why BT
We've always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world's first telecommunications company. At our heart we're a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.
Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.
Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we'll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that's you and what you're looking for, we'd love you to be part of our future.
Responsibilities
Accountable for guiding the scrum team and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
Uses empirical data to help scrum team to assess their Scrum Maturity, optimize scrum team velocity to organizational KPIs, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
Lead the scrum and development teams in self-organization
Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments
Manage all Scrum ceremonies
Partners with Product Owner(s) to ensure continuous refinement of backlog, which may include stories from multiple projects. Completion of some work may depend on non-agile work teams Sequence project initiatives to increase velocities across teams and reduce friction.
Build and maintain motivated project squads and teams, making sure there is an iterative plan to work towards.
Partners with Product Owners & Scrum team to communicate delivery of work product and escalates key risks and issues impeding team effectiveness.
Be a change agent - challenging the status quo where it does not enable the squad.
Facilitate regular stakeholder communication updates and reporting as required for the business.
Skills
Proven experience of agile delivery management across complex portfolios of digital projects.
Experience of waterfall delivery management.
Experience of Scrum and Prince2 methodologies, and proven application of these to successful delivery.
Experience of methods, tools and planning used in digital projects.
Experience in all aspects of systems delivery, transition and management, both of back-office and customer-facing systems.
Excellent stakeholder management skills and understanding of strategic and tactical business change needs in IT projects.
Coaching, influencing, negotiating and interpersonal skills.
Management and delivery of large and complex projects within a corporate environment.
Experience working with multiple stakeholders across multiple departments to deliver a vision or goal with various moving parts
Experience
Proven experience in the role of an agile delivery manager mastering delivering cross-functional change using Agile (i.e. across business and technology)
Demonstrated coaching experience, with a strong servant leadership philosophy.
Demonstrated experience fostering and empowering high performing teams.
Experience of working across a wide range of internal and external technology suppliers to align plans and deliver business outcomes.
Context-specific Agile techniques (e.g. XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, TDD, Automated Testing, etc.)
Domain-specific knowledge of applicable technologies
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you're a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT
Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.
