About the role
Job Purpose: Lead the overall delivery setup and execution, people and financials management for the assigned software services projects/ program work streams in order to realize defined business outcomes with mid-sized, globally distributed teams Partner with other delivery leads, clients, and other internal/ external stakeholders to drive effective adoption of best practices, deployment of processes, methodologies, and tools, execution of ceremonies and drive continuous improvement on delivery engagements Contribute to pre-sales and work with the legal and operations teams to ensure compliance Manage relationships & status reporting within the organization, with clients & applicable third parties Manage internal and external dependencies for the project or program People management responsibilities for team members, track leads, scrum masters, and product owners Participate in Delivery Management and (or) Agile communities The Scrum Master is trained in practicing Scrum and helps a team adopt Scrum in order to deliver quality releases quickly to the market Expertise with various Agile Methodologies âScrum, Scrum with XP, Kanban, Scrum ban, etc. Expertise with various Agile Tools - Jira, Xplanner, Confluence, RTC, TFS, Rally, etc. and ensuring adoption in a consistent manner. Act as a servant leader and shield the team from external interference and distractions to keep it in the group flow Create self-organizing teams, build consensus, and resolve conflict Responsible for the team to follow processes, establish and actively facilitate the cadence of all scrum ceremonies, and remove team impediments or escalate as per defined SLAs Ability to partner with the product owner and manage backlog - backlog prioritization, backlog grooming, ready groomed stories for next 3 iterations Responsible for Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, Sprint Dashboard, Burndown Charts, QA Metrics (Quality/Technical Debt; Cycle Time/Lead Time), Story Quality Metrics, Escalation Plan, Sprint Start and Closure activities, Team working Agreement, push for Automation, Story Estimation techniques (like planning poker) etc. Ability to manage and increase team velocity, measure efficiency at team and individual level Articulate the overall project risk and risk mitigation plan and make it transparent to the relevant stakeholders Good to have a functional understanding of the project and the business value being delivered Keeps scrum artifacts updated and visible Knowledge of engineering best practices (XP, Refactoring, Clean code patterns, CI/CD â DevOps, TDD/BDD/DDD, Trunk based development) Ability to run Scrum at scale using scaled agile solutions like Scrum of scrums, SAFe, DaD, LeSS, or other industry frameworks Enable continuous improvements around engineering maturity, product management, and agile processes via facilitating assessments, reviews, and retrospectives Track project quality in real-time using dashboards and metrics Owns the empirical governance process across multiple scrum teams Articulate project metrics including leakage, DOP, revenue & margins etc. Ability to build relationships and manage Stakeholders, get periodic feedback from clients and derive corrective actions to make clients successful through the realization of business outcomes for a large project or program Collaborates closely with the Product owner on the product roadmap, release planning, and business prioritization Mentor and provide oversight to Scrum Masters. Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders (Capability teams, IT, people success, Office Services, Business Operations, Finance including DAT (Deal acceptance team)) and external stakeholders (vendors and external teams) Partner with Agile coach(es) and other senior leads within and externally to drive compliance and delivery maturity improvement Contributes to the Organizationâs Agile community
About the company
Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of the next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clientsâ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.
