Junior Scrum Master Job in Alight

Junior Scrum Master

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Essential Duties:

• Guide the team and organization on effectively using Agile/Scrum practices and values to deliver customer delight.
• Coach the team to maximize self-organization and fill intentional gaps in Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Identify and remove impediments, or facilitate their removal by engaging the right stakeholders.
• Foster a trusting and safe environment where team members can raise problems without fear of blame or judgment, focusing on healing and problem-solving.
• Ensure the team remains focused on sprint goals and PI objectives, providing support to achieve them.
• Facilitate work progress without coercion, assigning, or dictating tasks.
• Lead discussions, decision-making, and conflict resolution effectively.
• Assist in internal and external communication, enhancing transparency and information flow.
• Support and educate the Product Owner in backlog grooming and maintenance.
• Serve the team using a servant leadership style, leading by example.
• Utilize Agile metrics proficiently and coach the team on delivery measurement.

Required Skills / Experience:

• 6-8 years of IT industry experience.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience as a Scrum Master with a software development team rigorously following Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
• Strong knowledge and skills in servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment, and transparency.
• Familiarity with various Scrum event facilitation techniques.
• Ability to perform independently as an individual contributor.
• Excellent communication, mentoring, collaboration, and coordination skills across multiple Agile teams.
• Experience with Agile toolsets (e.g., Jira, Confluence, etc.).

Preferred Skills / Experience:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.
• Experience with other Agile methodologies: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Awareness and experience with Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.
• Technical understanding of the tools and technologies used by the team.
• Proficient experience working with Jira.

What We Offer:

• Competitive total rewards package.
• Continuing education and training opportunities.
• Tremendous potential for growth within a fast-growing global organization.