Scrum Master

Job description

Job Description

Scrum Master

Position Description
CGI is looking for a Scrum Master to join the team!

The work is on the integration layer with multiple connection points it gives great exposure to modular architecture, as the industry is trending towards this architecture. Also it’s Agile so the work will be well planned and the resource will have good work life balance.

Your future duties and responsibilities
Responsibilities:

- Simultaneously leading multiple teams to deliver value added features through several agile methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.

- Leads and facilitates critical team level agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint demos, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.

- Participates and prepares for train level agile ceremonies including program increment planning, system demos, and inspect & adapt workshops.

- Supports the teams estimating efforts. Guides them in establishing normalized estimating approach.

- Identifies risks and blockers and actively works to remove them from the path of the team.

- Help Team members communicate, coordinate and cooperate to ensure that the teams sprint and program increment goals are met.

- Balances scrum process enforcement with collaboration and adapts the agile process framework to the realities of the team culture and environment. Overly ridged approaches will fail.

- Coordinates with other Scrum Masters to synchronize cross team dependencies

- Embodies Lean-Aglie leadership behaviors by actively, and continually seeks out opportunities for and drives toward velocity improvements

- Leverages the Version One/Rally tool as the means to track work and status success, issues, risks and dependencies.

- Creates a positive team atmosphere where communication, collaboration, and team work defines the culture.

- Prefer with Technical Background with Development and/or Testing in Microsoft Technologies

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
- 2 years of direct experience leading agile teams as a scrum master

- 5-8 years of experience in information technology

- Strong technical background working in any of the technologies like .net, Oracle, IBM Filenet, Docman etc.,

- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills with the ability to execute with limited information and ambiguity.

- Constant focus on what is possible and helping others to see the opportunity in the midst of challenge

- Strong communications skills. Ability to communicate across a diverse set of resources. Comfort delivering difficult messages in a fact based approach.

- Demonstrated experience facilitating agile delivery with globally distributed virtual teams

- Demonstrated ability to navigate a highly-matrixed organization effectively.

- Moderate to Advanced Microsoft Office suite skill level.

- Working experience of Version One / Rally software

Highly Desirable

- Relative certifications: SAFe Agilist (SA) Certification, SAFe Practitioner (SP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), and/or Project Management Professional (PMP)

- 5+ years of direct experience leading agile teams as a scrum master, or release train engineer

- Influencing skills (sound business and technical acumen as well as skilled at achieving buy-in or delivery strategies)

Nice to Have

- Working knowledge of Clarity PPM

- Adept at negotiating; able to resolve conflict and adapt to different approaches using a variety of tactics

- Ability to be highly effective in a rapidly-changing business and technology environment

- Experience in developing single page applications using HTML, Bootstrap, CSS.

- Ability to write clear, concise code in C# using a variety of standard .NET libraries and utilizing Object Oriented techniques.

- Experience in SQL

- Experience with test frameworks and TDD/BDD tools (e.g. Cucumber, Gherkin, Ruby) and MS-Specflow

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It is an extraordinary time to be in business. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, CGI is at the center of this change—supporting our clients’ digital journeys and offering our professionals exciting career opportunities.

At CGI, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our professionals. As one team, we share the challenges and rewards that come from growing our company, which reinforces our culture of ownership. All of our professionals benefit from the value we collectively create.

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Skills

·  .NET
·  Java
·  Oracle
·  SQL

Reference

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