Wolters Kluwer Hiring For Senior Scrum Master at Pune, Mahārāshtra Full Time

Summary

Are you passionate about team and organizational agility? Do you prefer to foster a culture of self-organizing teams who are passionate about continuous improvement? Are you eager to understand and solve organizational agility problems? Are you someone who values coaching and mentoring as your primary means of influencing change? Do you like to use data to measure and track organizational performance and drive improvements? Do you like to aim high and deliver big positive impact?

If this sounds like you, this is the role for you.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting is looking for a passionate and motivated Scrum Master to join our team. The Scrum Master is an important role to help identify key measures of organizational and team agility and use that data to help influence positive change to improve business outcomes. The Scrum Master seeks to coach and mentor engineering, product management, and development management staff on good agile patterns and practices, how to become self-organizing, manage cross-team dependencies, always strive for continuous improvement, and how best to navigate planning and decision making in the way that makes business sense. Our agile coaches are experts in Scrum and work within the Scaled Agile Framework ®.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

· Embrace servant leadership and lead agile behavioral change by example.

· Educate, coach, and mentor, teams and development managers to help improve organizational outcomes thru the application and adaptation of agile frameworks to our business needs.

· Work with a variety of styles (hands-on, consultant, or coaching) with new and existing teams of various sizes and locations, depending on need.

· Help identify impediments and work to create effective strategies to overcome them.

· Facilitate, teach, and/or mentor conflict resolution discussions and alternative approaches to achieve desired business outcomes.

· To drive transparency and trust, identify and measure KPIs that assess team agility relative to business performance and use those metrics to help drive improvements.

· Partner with other Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters across the organization to align on driving the intended agile transformation outcomes.

Experience:

· 5+ years of experience working in software development companies using Agile methodologies as a Scrum Master.

· Experience working with software platform teams is a must, e.g., where there is a centralized platform organization that multiple application teams leverage

· Experience working with non-SRE and SRE models is a must, e.g., both classic managed services operational paradigms and DevOps-centric paradigms.

· Have hands-on experience utilizing Scaled Agile Framework ® and Scrum in software development organizations

· Expert in agile values, principles, and practices and lean ways of working.

· Have demonstrated experience transitioning software teams to an agile framework and/or improving organizational outcomes thru application and adapting agile frameworks to organizations.

· Have excellent presentation, facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills, including coaching and mentoring

· Experience influencing peers and stakeholders and leading change.

· Passionate about sharing your experiences and knowledge and growing your peers.

· Driven, curious, and a continuous learner who strives to understand the business impact of work.

Ideal to have

· SAFe Release Train Engineer, SAFe Program Consultant, or higher-level SAFe certification(s)

· Professional Scrum Master and/or Professional Agile Leadership certification(s)