Scrum Master - Planning & Execution
Equifax
- Location
- Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area
- Job type
- Full-time
Required skills
- Agile
- Azure
- business analysis
- business objectives
- capacity planning
- cross-functional
- DevOps
- Jira
- Kanban
- project management
- UDF
- user stories
About the role
Equifax
Website:
equifax.com
Job details:
What You’ll Do - Lead and facilitate 2-3 Scrum teams, each composed of 7-9 members including software developers, QA engineers, and a product owner.
- Champion and ensure team understanding and adherence to the Team Agreement, Definition of Ready, and Definition of Done.
- Collaborate closely with product owners to ensure a clear understanding of business objectives within features and user stories.
- Expertly facilitate core Scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, release planning, daily stand-ups, stakeholder demos, and sprint retrospectives.
- Actively support the product owner in the continuous development, maintenance, and refinement of the product backlog.
- Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and blockers to maintain high team productivity.
- Manage and coordinate dependencies with other internal teams to ensure smooth workflow.
- Provide transparent metrics and regular team health status updates.
- Mentor team members in the adoption and consistent application of Agile/Scrum best practices.
- Diligently track, report on, and facilitate the resolution of identified issues and risks.
- Implement and support change practices within the team.
- Track key team performance indicators such as velocity, volatility, predictability, and cycle time, and use these metrics to drive continuous team improvement.
- Provide exemplary support to the team through servant leadership and by consistently leading by example.
- Utilize Jira proficiently to create insightful dashboards, filters, and reports for team visibility and tracking.
- Protects the scrum process and prevents distractions
- Ensures the proper front door process is followed
- Captures risks and issues, and escalates to P&E Tribe Lead as needed
- Provides squad-level status to the P&E Tribe Leads on a bi-weekly basis or as needed (UDF)
- Facilitates Scrum/Kanban ceremonies including:
- Work intake planning and management
- Backlog refinement/prioritization
- Daily stand-ups
- Reviews and demos
- Retrospectives
- Team capacity planning (velocity, burndown charts, estimation)
- Partnering with P&E Tribe Lead or P&E Segment Lead to facilitate quarterly planning
- Partners with the P&E Tribe Lead to support the Planning & Delivery Framework, including tool usage, processes, standards, etc., focusing on: (Jira process)
- Squad capacity monitoring and management
- Delivery tracking and release management
- Blocker removal support
What Experience You Need
- Scrum/Agile Experience: 1–3+ years of direct experience as a Scrum Master, preferably in software development, is standard.
- Prior Roles: Strong candidates often have 3–5 years of experience in related roles such as project management, business analysis, or engineering.
- Key Skills for the Role
- Conflict Resolution & Problem Solving: Ability to remove impediments and manage team dynamics.
- Leadership & Communication: Strong skills in influencing without authority.
- Tools Proficiency: Familiarity with ALM tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).
- Education: A Bachelor’s degree in IT or a related field is commonly required.
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- Coaching & Facilitation: Proven experience in mentoring teams, coaching Product Owners, and facilitating Scrum events (retrospectives, planning, etc.).
- Certifications: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) are highly preferred.
- Technical Understanding: While not always required to code, experience in software development, testing, or technical environments helps.
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What Could Set You Apart
- Impediment Removal: Focuses solely on clearing roadblocks outside the team's control (e.g., bureaucratic bottlenecks, external dependencies) rather than just tracking tasks.
- Servant-Leadership : Prioritizes team needs and supports them in becoming self-organizing and cross-functional.
- A great Scrum Master is not a taskmaster or a secretary, but an agent of change who empowers teams to be as productive and self-sufficient as possible.
- Focus on Process over "What": Enables the team to determine how to deliver the product, guiding them on Scrum framework adoption, whereas product owners focus on what is being built.
- Coaching & Mentoring: Guides the team and organization to understand and adopt Agile practices, fostering continuous improvement.
- Conflict Mediation & Culture: Acts as a neutral facilitator to resolve conflicts and creates an environment where teams feel safe to raise issues.
- Relationship Networking: Moves beyond the team to navigate the broader organization, improving cross-team collaboration.
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