Job Summary
The candidate will be responsible for overseeing and providing guidance to the Scrum teams in BI. The additional responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Ensuring that development teams follow Scrum framework values and agile practices
- Mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.
- The Scrum Master will be considered a subject-matter expert, have excellent logic and problem-solving skills, and have a drive to make a difference. They will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from their team while promoting self-management, and constantly improving our standards of work.
Output/Core Tasks:
- Establishes and manages team cadence throughout the delivery lifecycle, facilitation of all scrum ceremonies
- Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
- Stakeholder management and playback, including product owners, executive sponsors, and other external teams
- Work closely with leadership to define products and establish product backlog. Owns delivery roadmap.
- Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies, managing risks and issues.
- Assist with bedding down BI capability operating model (People and process)
- Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
- Training, mentoring and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
- Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
- Manage each project’s scope and timeline
- Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups
- Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
- Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
- Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
- Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
- Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
- Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
- Be the point of contact for external communications as well as prepare and present status reports to stakeholders.
- Coach team members in Agile frameworks
- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
- Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
- Help teams implement changes effectively
- Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
Role Requirements:
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
- Certified Scrum Master
- 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar role.
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artefacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
- Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, etc. to deliver solutions would be essential
- Leadership and management experience. Excellent people and project management skills.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills.
- Knowledge of various toolsets such as Wherescape, Cloudera, Informatica Data Quality Suite, and Data Vault will be advantageous.
- Experience in a Dev Ops environment and leading the development automation
- Hands-on experience with software delivery life cycle and Agile/Scrum delivery management
- Experience in project management/Team lead roles mandatory.
- Experience in delivering BI products is preferable
Knowledge and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree and 3 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Strong understanding of Data Warehouse, Data Pipelines, and BI applications
- Knowledge of Scrum principles
- Product development process knowledge
- Agile methodology
- Sprint methodology and project management
- Reporting and Administration
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