Agile Scrum Master _2 RTO, Manila, Mid/Night Shift

AVENSYS CONSULTING INC.; Manila; Hybrid; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Avensys Consulting Pte Ltd in Manila is seeking an experienced Agile Scrum Master to facilitate a Scrum team, remove impediments, and protect the team to achieve sprint goals.

The role requires coaching across teams, active Product Backlog management with the PO, and execution of all Scrum ceremonies in a hybrid setup with two days in the office weekly.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years IT industry experience required.
• Strong knowledge of Agile Scrum practices.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (Planning, Daily Standup, Grooming, Demo, Retrospective).
• Protect the development team and remove impediments to achieve sprint goals.
• Collaborate with Product Owner to maintain the Product Backlog and define User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• Ensure DOR, DOD, and acceptance criteria are adhered to and backlog is well refined.
• Coach teams across projects to adopt Agile engineering practices (ATDD, TDD, CI, CD).
• Maintain Scrum artifacts and update ALM tools daily.

Skills

Agile Scrum Methodology

Job description

Job Description

Avensys is a reputed global IT professional services company headquartered in Singapore. Our service spectrum includes enterprise solution consulting, business intelligence, business process automation and managed services. Given our decade of success, we have evolved to become one of the top trusted providers in Singapore and service a client base across banking and financial services, insurance, information technology, healthcare, retail and supply chain.

We are currently looking for Agile Scrum Master who has proven track record in IT Industry. This is an exciting opportunity to expand your skill set, achieve job satisfaction and work-life balance. More details as below.

Title: Agile Scrum Master

Work mode: Hybrid, 2 days work from office in a week

Location: Manila

Shift: Mid/Night (Shift may vary between Mid and Night Shift.)

Experience: 8 -10 years

Mandatory Skills: Agile Scrum Methodology

Job Description

As a trained Scrum Master, you are responsible for facilitating a Scrum team and are accountable for removing impediments of the team to achieve the sprint goals/deliverables. You are responsible to ensure that the Scrum process is used as intended. A key part of your role is to protect the development team, allow the teams to be self-managed, foster collaboration across teams and keep them focused on the tasks at hand.

Do

• Is accountable for meeting Sprint objectives along with scrum team
• Ensure meeting of sprint commitment
• Own and help resolve impediments of the team
• Help PO adopt Scrum Process properly and ensure PO availability
• Support the PO in maintaining the Product Backlog, defining User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
• Facilitate estimation, backlog refinement and all planning ceremonies
• Ensure that DOR, DOD, Acceptance criteria is available and adhered to
• Ensure MoSCoW adherence of Sprint Backlog at the Sprint level
• Accountable for the correct implementation of the Agile Process
• Protect the team from external interference.
• Facilitate technical assistance to the team and enables clear communication amongst the team members
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum across teams and highlights impediments
• Provide feedback on the team members performance to the Agile Line manager and Agile Program Leader
• Facilitate all the Scrum Ceremonies (Planning, Daily Standup, Grooming, Demo, restrospection) and ensure correct adoption
• Ensure updating of all Scrum artifacts
• Ensure ALM tool is updated on a daily basis
• Update key Scrum metrics into client’s internal tool on a Sprint-by-Sprint basis
• Analyse key Scrum metrics and take corrective actions
• Create competency improvement and cross-skilling plan for the team (by the start of the project). Review monthly and ensure improvement in competency score. Ensure multiskilling for at least 50% of the team.
• Help team attain stable velocity within 6-8 sprints (allowing for 10% variation either way)
• Train team on the proper adoption of Agile processes (Scrum / XP / Kanban)
• Help in adoption of engineering practices like ATDD, TDD, CI, CD, Refactoring
• Record and own the restrospection actions
• Participate in community of practice initiatives
• Provide inputs to the Line manager for internal quality forums (QIC / APR / QBR / MBR etc.)

WHAT’S ON OFFER

You will be remunerated with an excellent base salary and entitled to attractive company benefits. Additionally, you will get the opportunity to enjoy a fun and collaborative work environment, alongside a strong career progression.

CONSULTANT DETAILS:

Consultant Name : Seema Verma

Avensys Consulting Pte Ltd

EA Licence 12C5759

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