Scrum Master – Agile exp strong Banking domain

Scrum Master – Agile exp with strong Banking domain

We have an urgent requirement for Scrum Master – Agile exp with strong Banking domain experience with our client banking client in Abu Dhabi.

Must

• Strong experience in Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews, and Backlog Grooming.
• Strong experience on Agile tools like JIRA, Confluence, Rally, etc. Should use velocity, burndown charts.
• Strong Experience In Banking Domain.

Scrum Master will lead the scrum teams and provide coaching to the team/organization, ensuring adherence to established Agile processes and practices. The Scrum Master will be responsible for tasks covering the product development life cycle. In addition to scrum master responsibilities, the incumbent will also be required to perform tasks related to end to end project management and software/product release management.

• The Scrum Master ensures that the Scrum process is used as intended.
• Keep the Development Team in alignment with the Scrum framework, values and principles, and ensure the team is focused on continuous improvement.
• Enforces daily builds to detect early issues in the compiled and aggregated code, as well as in the functionality delivered.
• Facilitate Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Product Backlog refinement, Sprint Reviews, Sprint, Retrospectives, release planning, and other team activities as required.
• Encourage team self-organization & empowerment.
• Share new industry Agile best practices.
• Facilitate Retrospectives which generate new ideas for process improvement.
• Ensure preparation for planning through effective Product Backlog refinement sessions.
• Ensure planning meetings fully prepare the team for the upcoming Sprints and release.
• Actively remove impediments that slow any aspect of the Development Team’s efforts.
• Work closely with the Technical Delivery Manager, Program Manager, and Business Experts to ensure visibility and resolution of technical and business challenges.
• Actively participate in organizational Agile activities.
• Promote and support the Development Team’s automated processes.
• Assist the team in implementing the process improvements they've defined in the Sprint Retrospectives.
• Support the Product Owner in writing effective Product Backlog Items and maintaining the prioritized backlogs for multiple products as the Development Team’s provide estimates for the upcoming items.
• Assist the Product Owner in the Story refinement process.
• Develop and maintain relevant metrics that guide the Development Team to more efficient processes in their work and in satisfying their Product Owner and stakeholders.
• Identify and manage dependencies with other internal or external teams.
• Work closely with Project Management to ensure proper project and portfolio reporting, including active risk management.

• Facilitate Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Product Backlog refinement, Sprint Reviews, Sprint, Retrospectives, release planning, and other team activities as required.
• Support the Product Owner in writing effective Product Backlog Items and maintaining the prioritized backlogs for multiple products as the Development Team’s provide estimates for the upcoming items.
• Ensure planning meetings fully prepare the team for the upcoming Sprints and release.
• Coaching teams on agile concepts and ensuring continuous improvement.
• Track, resolve and report incidents and known errors through the approved processes.
• Establish proactive steps to address quality, delivery issues.

Carry on project management tasks related to the scrum team or journey and for other assignments as may be assigned to the person from time to time. Ensure the project adheres to the required policies and processes. Establish collaborative relationships with a wider range of stakeholder.

The incumbent is responsible take ownership of software/product releases in Banking Environment. Hence, experience of having worked in banking environment is required.

Maintain information security related to Bank, throughout the period of employment.…