Scrum Master
- Nielseniq India
- 9 - 14 years
- Chennai
- 3 months ago
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Job Description
So where do you fit here? NielsenIQ clients span the globe and require technology teams Scrum Masters that can connect the dots for their technology needs. As a Scrum Master at NielsenIQ, you will be responsible for helping our product and technology teams drive product development adopting standard and consistent SAFe Agile practices ensuring high quality. You will coordinate efforts across functional, technical and process teams and work cross-functionally to solve client problems. Your teams may cut across time zones, datasets and technologies and it will be your responsibility to keep track of all the moving parts, bring people together across multiple teams and communicate with various stakeholders, including senior management.
At NielsenIQ, we empower our Scrum Masters to drive results and change. We are looking for motivated, analytical, dynamic candidates with a passion for data and technology to join our Program Management Office. If you thrive in high-energy environments and if you love the idea of working across every business function with visibility to our CTO and Product Leaders, you would be a great fit for our team!
- Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high-quality products.
- Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
- Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood, and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
- Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
- Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.
- Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
- Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
- Drives continuous improvements through metrics.
- Escalates issues in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Works closely with Product Leadership, Technology & Operations teams on product development roadmaps and timelines.
Qualifications
- Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.
- Deep understanding of agile frameworks - Scrum, Kanban, SAFE etc.
- Has deep understanding of software development life cycle.
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques.
- Planning and problem-solving with the product owner and delivery teams.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
- Bachelors degree and 10+ years of software development experience in an Agile environment with 3+ years of Scrum Master experience.
- Hands on experience in Jira and other ADLM tools.
- Preferred to have SAFe certifications ( either of SSM, SASM, RTE , SA etc )
Job Classification
Industry: Software ProductFunctional Area / Department: Project & Program ManagementRole Category: Other Program / Project ManagementRole: Program ManagerEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Nielseniq IndiaLocation(s): Chennai
Keyskills: Sprint Planning Agile Principles Scrum Sprint Review Retrospective Scaled Agile Framework Backlog Refinement Safe CSM
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