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Role: Scrum Master
As a Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, you will be responsible for individually delivering high quality work products within due timelines in an agile framework. Need-basis consultants will be mentoring and/or directing junior team members/liaising with onsite/offshore teams to understand the functional requirements.
Position Overview:
The Scrum Master is a key member of an Agile team, responsible for facilitating the Scrum process, coaching team members in Agile best practices, and ensuring the team’s effectiveness in delivering high-quality products. The Scrum Master acts as a servant leader, removing impediments and fostering a collaborative, transparent, and high-performing team environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies: Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Coach Agile Practices: Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to deliver value.
- Remove Impediments: Actively work to identify and eliminate obstacles that may hinder the team’s progress.
- Support Product Owner: Assist the Product Owner with backlog management, refinement, and ensuring clear communication of goals and priorities.
- Promote Team Collaboration: Foster open communication, collaboration, and self-organization within the team.
- Drive Continuous Improvement: Encourage a culture of learning, adaptation, and continuous improvement through regular feedback and process enhancements.
- Maintain Scrum Artifacts: Ensure transparency by maintaining and sharing Scrum artifacts such as the product backlog, sprint backlog, and burndown charts.
- Stakeholder Communication: Serve as a liaison between the team and stakeholders, ensuring alignment and managing expectations.
- Monitoring: Track and measure progress and quality against Sprint Plan, DoD, Quality, Delivery Flow metrics
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent Agile certification (SAFe Agilist good to have)
- 4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar Agile role working in POD model and facilitating collaboration across multiple PODs through events like the Scrum of Scrums.
Essential Skills
- Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies, especially Scrum and scaled Agile environment (SAFe)
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams catering to complex business environments operating at scale in hybrid work environments.
- Understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC), aspects of project planning and estimation, risk identification, capacity and dependency resolution.
- Ability to coach and mentor team members on Agile best practices on Lean delivery practices and product delivery tools such as JIRA boards. Leading role-based trainings – Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team
- Strong problem-solving and conflict resolution skills. Collaborate with scrum teams to achieve faster impediment resolution and dependency mitigation.
- Proficient in Agile project management tools (such as Jira, Jira Align, Azure DevOps, and Rally), with experience building dashboards to enhance transparency of delivery metrics.
- Enable teams to deliver value by leveraging flow metrics, Objective Key Results (OKRs), and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Basic understanding of version control systems (e.g., GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket), CI/CD Processes, Release Management
Appendix: Concise key word format for Job-search [along with Qualifications]
| Skill Area | Details |
| Agile Methodologies | SDLC, Agile, Scrum, and SAFe |
| Agile Coaching & Training | Ability to coach on Agile, Lean delivery, JIRA |
| Agile Tools & Dashboards | Jira, Jira Align, Azure DevOps, Rally; |
| Value Delivery & Metrics | Flow metrics, OKRs, and KPIs |
| Version Control & CI/CD | GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, CI/CD processes, release management |
| Deployment Strategies | A/B testing, Canary, Blue-Green, and Rolling Deployments |
| Certifications | CSM, PSM, SAFe Agilist, SPC |
Location: MUM/BLR/HYD
The team
Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Technology Consulting practice is dedicated to helping our clients build tomorrow by solving today’s complex business problems involving strategy, procurement, design, delivery, and assurance of technology solutions. Our service areas include analytics and information management, delivery, cyber risk services, and technical strategy and architecture, as well as the spectrum of digital strategy, design, and development services Core Business Operations Practice optimizes clients’ business operations and helps them take advantage of new technologies. Drives product and service innovation, improves financial performance, accelerates speed to market, and operates client platforms to innovate continuously. Learn more about our Technology Consulting practice on www.deloitte.com