What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at ValueMomentum?
About the job
Involves facilitating the agile Scrum process by coaching the team on Scrum principles, removing impediments, and leading ceremonies. This role acts as a servant-leader and coach, who helps the team self-organize and improve their productivity, ensuring adherence to the framework.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate Scrum events: Organize and lead all Scrum ceremonies, including the Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective.
- Remove impediments: Identify and help resolve any obstacles or issues that slow down the development team.
- Coach the team: Train and mentor the team on Scrum theory, practices, and agile principles to foster self-organization and continuous improvement.
- Support the Product Owner: Work with the Product Owner to ensure the product backlog is well-managed and understood by the development team.
- Promote communication: Ensure effective communication within the Scrum team and between the team and stakeholders.
- Responsible for managing agile board (ADO), including agile metrics (e.g. sprint burndowns/burn-ups, work planned vs completed, velocity, etc.) and for keeping agile board in good working order
- Reporting: Regular analysis of burndown charts, communicating work planned vs work completed by sprint, team velocity and other portfolio reporting to understand what gets built and at what cadence.
Required working experience & education
- 10 years' experience with Agile as a Scrum Master (including scrum techniques and artifacts such as Scrum, Kanban, user stories, backlogs, Scrum/Kanban boards, sprint planning, retrospectives, burndown metrics, velocity).
- Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as knowledge and experience of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project
- A proven track record of successfully implementing projects using Agile methodologies.
- Agile Certifications required (CSM, PSM, etc)
- Experience working with project teams that contain Developers, IT Business Analysts, Architects, Quality Assurance, Business Product Owners, Project Sponsors, etc.
- Experience in coordinating with multiple extended teams
Required Skills and qualifications:
Technical Must have
- Agile Project Management tools such as Azure DevOps, Rally, Jira, etc.
- Proficient in Microsoft Project, Powerpoint, Excel, Word
Personal Must have
- Proactive, takes initiative, accountable, self-motivated
- Strong written and verbal communications skills, including meeting facilitation and presentation skills.
- Collaborator and team player, with the ability to build and maintain strong internal and external relationships.
- Strong planning and organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to handle multiple concurrent assignments.
- Ability to work & think independently, and meet tight deadlines.
- Ability to share knowledge at different levels, be hands-on with the team as required
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent problem solving and influencing skills
- Excellent negotiation and conflict management skills
About ValueMomentum:
ValueMomentum is a leading solutions provider for the global property and casualty insurance industry, supported by deep domain and technology capabilities. We help insurers stay ahead with sustained growth and high performance for enhancing stakeholder value and fostering resilient societies. Trusted by over 100 insurers, ValueMomentum is one of the largest services providers exclusively focused on property and casualty. ValueMomentum is headquartered in Piscataway, NJ, with state-of-the-art delivery centers in Piscataway, NJ; Hyderabad, Pune, and Coimbatore in India; Toronto in Canada; and London in the United Kingdom.