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Tata Consultancy Services · 2 days ago

Agile Scrum Master

Tata Consultancy Services is a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization. They are seeking an Agile Scrum Master to facilitate Scrum ceremonies, manage risks, and coach teams to improve their Agile practices.

Business Information SystemsConsultingInformation TechnologyIT Management
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Responsibilities

Facilitates Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
Provides visibility into the Agile team’s delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders
Manages risk including dependency management, impediment removal and compliance with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements
Applies metrics to assess team delivery, maturity, and performance and identifies and shares improvement opportunities with the team
Partners with product stakeholders to ensure the team has a healthy product and Sprint backlog
Provides coaching and mentoring to the team for them to become high performing by collaborating, focusing on continuous improvement including cross-training, and sharing knowledge on scrum practices and Agile principles
Leads scaled planning for the team including Pre Planning/Preparation and Program Increment Planning Events) and represents the team in Scrum of Scrums/Agile Release Train Syncsz
Organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum/Kanban-related meetings
Manage JIRA board and backlog for sprint execution
Facilitate the inter-connection and dialogue between multiple intersecting development contracts to help promote a cohesive final product for the customer
Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and information sharing
Managing parallel application development and Project/Product implementation processes
Assisting team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition; identifying and removing impediments
Preventing distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver on release goals; facilitating discussion and conflict resolution
Empowering the team to self-organize; improve the productivity of the teams; ensure that the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable code
Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress, maintaining process documentation
Updating physical and electronic agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product backlogs and in-progress work; supporting Development Manager and Project/Product Managers as necessary
Ensuring that development teams are practicing/following core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
Work with Product Owners and Scrum Teams in requirements decomposition, backlog refinement, and breakdown of user stories and tasks

Qualification

Agile principlesScrum methodologyJIRA managementCoachingStakeholder communicationMentoring

Required

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Benefits

Discretionary Annual Incentive.
Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

Company

Tata Consultancy Services

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Tata Consultancy Services is a business solutions company that specializes on information technology services and consulting.

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
unknown
2004-08-25IPO

Leadership Team

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K. Krithivasan
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
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Aarthi Subramanian
President and Chief Operating Officer
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