VP – Senior Agile Practitioner (Scrum Master)

Job Title: VP – Senior Agile Practitioner (Scrum Master) 

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• Working across domain at Team and tribe level, you will collaborate with teams, focusing on all stakeholder value. You will enable an agile culture, building cohesive team dynamics while fostering trust and collaboration across team members; safe to challenge, experiment and fail without fear, with delivered outcomes at the highest quality.
• With in-depth and real-world experience, you will coach people and the organization to surface their biggest impediments preventing an environment in which agility can thrive. Helping the group to relate and connect their actions to culture, including how the approach to agile processes and tools impacts high performance. This includes the impact and effective use of governance and metrics. 
• We will ask a lot of you, but we will offer a lot in return. You will have an opportunity to work in an environment that provides continuous growth and learning, with an emphasis excellence and mutual respect.
• As a Senior Agile Practitioner (Scrum Master) you will need to be highly motivated as you guide and support the new Agile teams. You will control the processes that the teams engage with on a day-to-day basis, across multiple locations. Working alongside the Product Owner you will need to motivate your team with proven leadership skills, making sure that the teams operate effective Agile methodologies. We expect our Scrum Masters to be servant leaders and passionate about continuous improvement, enabling our teams to deliver resilient software of highest quality. Hence, you should have advanced hands-on experience working with agile software development teams and have profound insights on agile frameworks (e.g. SAFe, LESS) especially with focus on scaling agile teams in a global enterprise environment. Finally, we expect you to help us drive our banks agile transformation journey and become a key driver for the Corporate Bank division.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy,

• Best in class leave policy.
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Accountable for establishing Scrum on team level and scaling our agile setup on enterprise  level
• Excellent communication skills, fluent in English, problem solving attitude and a strong team focus living and promoting agile mindset and culture
• Ability to coach and mentor team members as well as stakeholders, remove obstacles and emphasize teamwork  
• Profound knowledge of Confluence, Jira and ideally JQL  
• Demonstrates a personal growth mindset - Lifelong learning, continuous self-improvement and the ability to always adapt in a fast-paced environment  
• Proactiveness and self-organization, empathy and interpersonal conflict resolution skills  
• Responsible for the Team’s effectiveness, coaching an improvement culture by focusing on continuous improvements, visualize and measure team flow, ensures impediments to the team are quickly removed
• Surfacing up team metrics and helping the team understand their metrics and self-reflect and experiment
• Encouraging a psychological safe environment for the team
• Supporting/Coaching the product owner and backlog
• Enable the team to actively own and surface dependencies and risks or escalate in a timely manner.
• Managing dependencies across multiple inter-related projects/ products, managing and reporting status of product roadmap and/ or project status, RAID and financial information to support effective decision making
• Developing project/ product & change artefacts during the change lifecycle, e.g., scope, business case, communication, change management and / or training plans, materials and overseeing  / monitoring the execution to ensure adoption and minimal disruption of normal business operations
• Providing training/mentoring where applicable on various methodologies; including change management, agile, process re-engineering

Your skills and experience

• 10+ years overall IT experience and out of which 5+ years Scrum Master experience in a software driven environment, ideally banking or a similarly regulated environment
• 5+ years experience of working in an enterprise environment scaling agile (e.g. SAFe, LESS)
• Previous experience as both Agile Coach & Scrum Master, experience in coaching, teaching and mentoring
• Very strong communication skills both written and oral
• Certified practitioner to enable and train teams on the best Agile practices
• Experience using collaboration tools such as JIRA, JQL, Confluence, GIT etc
• Experience in other Agile approaches such as Kanban , XP etc

Desirable experience

• Professional Coaching or Facilitating
• Desirable experience of scaling agility with multiple globally distributed teams
• Evidence of supporting team focus on high quality delivery
• Technical Mastery (DevOps, Automation etc)

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.htm

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.