Scrum Master

Job Title: Scrum Master

Experience Level: 10 Years

Division: VJSAR Shared Services- IT

About Us
VJSAR Info Tech Private Limited is a leading global consultancy firm, specializing in delivering high￾quality IT services to a diverse range of clients. Our mission is to provide innovative solutions that
drive business success.

Job Summary
The Scrum Master is a Servant Leader within a team and works closely with the Product Owner. The
Scrum Master is accountable for creating the environment for the success of the Scrum team, acting
as both a servant leader and coach for the team. The main responsibilities of the Scrum Master are;
removing blockers, ensuring progress can be made by team members by removing issues outside
of their control, dealing with any organizational impediments, and protecting the team from
unnecessary distraction. The Scrum Master is responsible for the day-to-day agile management
activities such as running the Scrum (or Kanban) process. The Scrum Master also has responsibility
for upskilling the team in agile ways of working that enable the team to self-organize, manage, and
deliver value using agile methodology.

Key Responsibilities:
• Accountable for maximizing team's ability to deliver Sprint goals and contribute to the teams
OKRs
• Responsible for ensuring team-level ceremonies like Daily Huddles, Sprint Planning, Sprint
Review etc. are conducted focusing on value return.
• Accountable for driving continuous improvements for the team resulting in increased
efficiency or enabling greater ROI
• Accountable to both the team as a whole and each individual team member, performing as a
servant leader
• Accountable for identifying, tracking, removing and escalating impediments and blockers at
team level to maintain both pace and flow of value
• Accountable for managing and resolving intra-team dependencies by working with other
Scrum Masters within the platform and external teams
• Responsible for the effective and consistent operational performance for the scrum process
• Responsible for both timely and effective tracking and reporting on team progress against
goals
• Responsible for managing team capacity, utilisation, and velocity. Actively engages with
other Scrum Masters within the platform to discuss resourcing and utilisation strategies
• Responsible for providing Platform Owner and Platform Lead with relevant input for each
team member to support each team member’s development and performance needs

Technical Skills Required:
• SAFe® 5 Agilist certification or equivalent
• Agile Management Foundation
• Scrum Master certification (A-CSM/CSM Certified Scrum Master, PSM – Professional Scrum
Master)
• Certified Agile Leadership (e.g. CAL-E, CAL-T)
• Certified Team Coach

Preferred Qualifications:
• Active Scrum Master experience for 10 years operating in areas applying scrum mastery and
agile coaching techniques, lean agile principles and practices resulting in effective ROI
• High levels of competence in in the use of planning and documentation tools such as: Jira
and Confluence etc.
• Knowledge and experience of using Kanban Boards including the production of effective and
timely team performance monitoring reporting
• Project management fundamentals with the ability to apply principles, tools and techniques
to develop/plan, manage or execute projects to ensure successful completion
• Experience of working with 3rd party software and professional services delivery vendors
• Knowledge and experience operating with data deliveries and database and reporting tools
e.g. SQL Server, cubing technologies, Power BI, Qlikview SQL Server
• Knowledge of hyperautomation and robotics and lo-code platforms
• Knowledge of team delivery on premise, IaaS and PaaS
• Knowledge and experience operating with embedded on premise and multi-cloud SDLC
using technologies such as Team City or GitHub for integration, Github Packages for package
management, Container Kubernetes orchestration in Amazon, Azure and or Google cloud
underpinned by Lean Agile practices
• Knowledge of deployment using Octopus or Github deploy
• Experience operating within heavily regulated environments including external regulated
consumer products and service offerings