Consultant III - Scrum Master

Position: Scrum Master (3 to 8 years of experience) Primary Purpose of the position: We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to join our product and custom software development practice. The Scrum Master's responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, update tools & systems, trackers, enable continuous improvement and eliminating team impediments.
Skills, Competencies, Experience and Responsibilities: • Certified Scrum Master with working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks (such as Scrum or Kanban) to deliver solutions. Understanding related values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions. • Scheduling and facilitating all Scrum Ceremonies (Daily scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Backlog Grooming and Retrospectives), meetings, and decision-making processes. • Work closely with Product Owners to ensure backlog clarity, prioritization, and alignment with business goals. • Training, mentoring and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices. • Identify and remove impediments to the team's progress, escalating issues when necessary. • Monitoring team progress and metrics to support team performance and aid in identifying areas of improvement. • Good insights into various quality and performance metrics, related charts and reports and present them to team and stake holders. • Planning and organizing demos, team building activities. • Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials. • Ensure transparency in the team's work and maintain alignment with business goals. • Promote culture of ownership, accountability, and self-organization within the team. Required Qualifications: • Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead or similar role. • Proven track record of leading Agile delivery in complex environments • Ability to coach and mentor teams with varying levels of Agile maturity • Strong facilitation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder engagement skills
Preferred Qualifications: • Having prior experience in Project Management, Business Analyst or QA • Certifications such as CSM, PMI-ACP, PSM • Experience with ERP systems such as Microsoft Business Central, Oracle NetSuite, or Sage Intacct. • Experience with any online scrum framework platform or agile tools like Azure DevOps, Jira or similar • Ability to manage multiple teams or projects simultaneously • Knowledge of Power automation or Power BI reporting • Experience working with globally distributed teams Work location: Wipfli, Bengaluru or Pune