Location
Dublin, CA | United States
Job description
NTT DATA Services strives to hire exceptional, innovative, and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now
Summary of role:
This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated Scrum Master with a passion for agile scrum practices and a keen delivery mindset to join our team and be part of a major transformation project. The role involves performing the scrum master role for scrum squads. This will require a combination of scrum facilitation as well as leadership skills.
We’re looking for someone who will:
- Facilitate the planning of work for scrum teams including effective planning and utilization of scrum team capacity.
- Keep the Agile Delivery Squad(s) focused on sprint plan and support regular reviews
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, & radiating information.
- Collaborate with Delivery lead, product owners and Design/technical leads to enable an effective delivery process.
- Improve the team's delivery capacity by maximizing the effectiveness of release and iteration planning, retrospectives.
- Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
- Add value by removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
- Provide necessary support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.
- You are a collaborative peer who thrives with autonomy and can work across Onshore and distributed teams/Squads.
- You share your knowledge and enjoy mentoring other members of the team.
- You train and coach the agile team on scrum process as needed, keeping it on track and productive
You will need to show us that:
- You can advise and lead the team on agile values, practices and processes to ensure that the team is fully functional, productive, and focused on the sprint goals
- You can run all the scrum events such as sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective
- You can work with the team and product area to resolve challenges and remove impediments
- You can participate in scaled agile events and will sometimes be required to facilitate at these events or lead and co-ordinate the logistics for these events
- You can participate in your Scrum Master chapter, contributing to and driving best practices
- You can build positive relationships within and across teams
Experience and Skills required -
- 15+ years of overall experience with a minimum of 5+ years as Scrum Master/Agile Coach
- Agile/Scrum Certification (CSM/PSM/SSM)
- Track record of delivering complex projects through agile process
- Exceptional Communicational Skills (both verbal and written)
- Background in Financial Services/Banking domain in Ireland/UK markets will be an added advantage
About NTT DATA Services
NTT DATA Services is a global business and IT services provider specializing in digital, cloud and automation across a comprehensive portfolio of consulting, applications, infrastructure and business process services. We are part of the NTT family of companies, a partner to 85 % of the Fortune 100.
NTT DATA Services is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, disability, age, veteran-status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other class protected by law. To learn more, please visit Furthermore, NTT DATA Services will make accommodations for eligible applicants on a case-by-case basis.
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