Job Description:Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.Qualifications:
Responsibilities:
Scrum Master:
• Facilitate Team DSU’s, Retrospectives, Sprint planning meetings, etc.
• Assists Product Owner with product backlog, when needed
• Assists with removing Impediments/obstacles
• Act as a liaison between the team, stakeholders, and other Scrum Masters to ensure that the team’s efforts are aligned
• Pulling impacted Tech Leads, PO’s, TA’s, Business (if/when applicable) together to collaborate and design solution keeping in mind reusability in the future
• Coordinate Delivery Sync with all impacted PO’s and Business partners to close out any open questions on business requirements
• Coordination of dependencies
• Manage and Communicate Risks (Timelines, Impediments, etc.)
• Coordinate, Create and Maintain Detailed initiative timeline for all impacted areas. Aligning all to a specific implementation date
• Facilitate meetings
• Bi-Weekly Readouts and/or Status updates
• Reporting/Metrics
• Assist with SDLC
• Communicate reminders concerning Release Management dates – soft freeze, hard freeze, etc., for all Quarterly releases and off quarter releases.
· Strong leadership, time management, and organizational skills
· Excellent written and verbal communications skills
· Excellent team collaboration skills, including experience in dealing with multiple projects impacting different processes, multi-functional teams, and ability to coordinate across teams in a large matrix organization environment.
· Strong relationship building and maintaining skills. Fosters a climate conducive to establishing positive working relationships with clients (internal and external).
• Working knowledge of MS Office Suite, JIRA, and JiraAlign
• Understanding of change management
• Excellent analytical, negotiation and problem solving skills
• In-depth Annuity business and/or technical knowledge preferred but not mandatory.
Mandatory certification: CSM/PSM/SSM
Good to have certification: SAFe SM or SAFe Agilist or SAFe POPM
Location:
This position can be based in any of the following locations:
Gurgaon
Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday
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Who we are
Guardian makes a difference in the lives of people when they need us most. With over 160 years of stability and fiscal integrity, we are a trusted resource to generations of families and business owners, inspiring well-being and helping build financial confidence.
Today, we stand behind 29 million consumers, helping them prepare and plan for a bright future for themselves and their families. We help business owners care for their employees. And we help people recover and thrive in times of unexpected loss.
As a modern mutual insurance company, we believe in driving value beyond dividends. We invest in our colleagues and are building a progressive, innovative and inclusive culture. We uplift individuals and communities through thoughtful social and environmental programs.
What we stand for
In 1860, a community of immigrants joined together to insure and protect their businesses and families. They were guided by powerful ideals that we’ve continued to stand behind and evolved throughout the years: we do the right thing, we believe people count, we courageously shape the future together, and we go above and beyond for the people we serve.
Guardian employees embrace and live by these values every day. They remind us to put people at the heart of all we do so that we can help protect what matters most to you. Want to help bring these values to life? Join us for a rewarding career and the opportunity to shape the future.
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