The Opportunity

Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We’re helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we’re developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.

As a member of the Huron corporate team, you’ll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron’s collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.

Join our team and create your future.

Position Summary

As a lead scrum master, you will serve as a change agent, servant leader and agile coach for your team(s). Responsibility includes ensuring teams lives agile/SAFe values and principles, follows the agreed processes ad practices, communicates clearly and help the team reach its goal. You will also ensure execution is happening & helping the team to reach the goal. You also ensure good relationship between Agile Release train (ART) and backlog team as well as others outside the team.
This is a role in Huron’s Corporate IT Operation team based in India and works with Corporate IT resources based in India and the US.

Qualifications

Primary Responsibilities

  • Act as a Change Agent with passion for supporting Agile teams and Portfolios to transform their behaviour towards an agile mindset.
  • Manages the backlog and facilitates the sequencing of work across the ART to efficiently manage the overall development and capacity utilization.
  • Contributes towards program level coordination and establishes timelines, milestones and cadence of increment & releases.
  • Facilitates ART and agile ceremonies effectively.  
  • Ensure alignment, synchronization and integration across multiple agile teams and business owners.
  • Contributes to a culture of continuous improvement and drives team processe & methodology to improve delivery, quality, and effectiveness.
  • Provide coaching and mentoring to the team members on Agile Framework.
  • Help with Azure Dev Ops (ADO) setup for Agile team(s)
  • Help Agile Teams manage their progress via transparent backlog.
  • Understanding & finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management
  • Works on other projects and tasks as deemed necessary.
  • Use sound judgement to escalate issues appropriately and timely, including solution options and associated impacts to drive effective decision making.
  • Drive visibility and transparency of dates, milestones, and dependencies
  • Demonstrate critical thinking to anticipate and connect opportunities and resolve challenges and escalations.
  • Demonstrate strong collaboration with others and high emotional intelligence to build productive and strategic relationships.
  • Ensure teams work effectively together in Agile, promoting collaboration and transparency
  • Escalating and tracking impediments, removing bottlenecks where the teams cannot do it themselves.
  • Utilizing team feedback, analyzing data and reporting on team factors such as quality, delivery rate, throughput, productivity and velocity.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field).
  • 7+ experience working in software delivery lifecycle/business process change/Agile environment
  • 5+ full time experience as a Scrum Master and deep understanding and implementation of agile methodologies
  • Successful experience working with global teams across multiple geographies and time zones.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of common practices to manage risk and dependencies.
  • Excellent interpersonal and Team dynamics skills.
  • Excellent colloaboration and communications skills.

Certifications

  • Certified Scrum Master or Advance level (CSM, Scrum Alliance)
  • SAFe SA, RTE an additional plus

Posting Category

Corporate

Opportunity Type

Regular

Country

India

Is a Remote Job?
Hybrid (Remote with required office time)

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