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**Key accountabilities and decision ownership**
- Guide and coach multiple Scrum teams (2-3) with different team sizes, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.
- Be the guardian of a medium to large, fairly complex scrum team
- Facilitate medium to large team organization on Agile ceremonies.
- Align your teams around clear goals and encourage direct, positive involvement in all aspects
- Grow team confidence to experiment, iterate, evolve, and learn
- Ensure full transparency with velocity, burn down/up reporting, and communicating team progress with value focused metrics
- Leverage your expertise to change mindsets, empower team members, and build a great team
- Responsible for facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, backlog grooming / refinement and retrospective meetings.
- Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution for the team(s)
- Remove internal or external impediments or guide the team to remove impediments
- Ensure observance of DoD (definition of done)
- Assess the Scrum maturity of the team and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and the organization
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Work as a release manager (where applicable)
- Align with the PO on the agreed feature list and related release date.
- Manage each sprint with cross functional teams with all sprint activities.
- Make sure with the PO that all stories are added on Jira with their details and assigned per each feature.
- Manage the Sprint planning meeting, ensure proper sizing and estimate per story from all team members..
- Prepare the build plan after sprint planning and based on team capacity.
- Handle Daily scrum with the development team to align and ensure that the team is on track with the build plan and sprint goal.
- Coach and mentor team members on agile standards and best practices; ensure consistent best practices are applied across the work streams.
- Proactively identifies impediments and appropriately resolves using network of peers and formal channels (including escalation if required)
- Manage & Own regular project’s status meeting/ mails/calls with relevant stakeholders, aligning them with the deliverables per sprint / release.
- Prepare and attend monthly dashboard review with the management team.
- On spot risk raising for management, asking for support if any.
- Set Sprint review meeting and demos with the PO to confirm on the delivered scope.
- Plan for retrospective meeting (Internal and External). Enhance process while moving forward with the development team and ensure that the corrective actions are taken.
- Support Handover, on boarding and KT sessions for all team members with a proper planning.
- Measure every team member performance supporting capability mangers in their evaluations.

**Core competencies, knowledge and experience**:

- At least 5 years of experience in software development with at least 2 years of dedicated full-time Scrum Master experience in software development
- Experience working in large-scale products and/or programs
- Experience with SDLC (both Waterfall and Agile hands on experience)
- Experience in Agile / Scrum development methodologies & tools (Jira)
- Experience being a Scrum Master on multiple Scrum teams
- Strong understanding of software development life cycle and DevOps.
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, user stories etc.
- Master of JIRA, Confluence etc.
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills

Typical outputs
- Documentations (backlog, sprints, releases etc.)
- Agile project plans, progress updates & reports
- Effort & timeline estimates & tracking

**Must have technical / professional qualifications**:

- Proven hands-on experience in managing projects in agile environments, especially, in a facilitator role.
- Technical background (optional) and ability to understand architecture & technical issues to drive effective agile delivery.
- Exceptional communication, organization, and team building skills; articulate and able to steer a meeting with presence.
- Ability to maintain calm attitude during difficult situations and handle pressuring situations.
- Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
- Experience in maintaining and reporting against relevant metrics (i.e. burn down and velocity, risks, timelines, etc.). In timely manner.
- Strong team player with an ability to identify and remove impediments or conflicts that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint & project goals.
- Self-starter & self-motivated with a drive to identify opportunities for improvement across the agile delivery processes.
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