India - Scrum Master (Remote)

Who are Inchcape?

At Inchcape, our vision is to have a connected world, in which our customers trade successfully and make better decisions in every port, everywhere. We use technology and our global network to help our partners connect to a smoother, smarter ocean.

Inchcape combines its worldwide infrastructure with local expertise through our global network of over 250 proprietary offices, across 70 countries and a team of more than 3,000 committed professionals. Our diverse global customer base includes owners and charterers in the oil, cruise, container, and bulk commodity sectors as well as naval, government, and intergovernmental organizations.

We have an ambitious growth model and a career here is certainly going to be a rewarding one that will allow you to bring your skills & experience. We embrace change and are open to new thinking and pushing for positive change in our industry.
 

Contract type: Permanent/Full Time

Maximum Salary: 42 Lakh per annum (INR)
Location: Remote*

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Use agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Mentor and support the scrum team to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager and Engineering manager to build high functioning 
development teams.
• Determine and manage tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• In collaboration with the Product Manager, ensure there is a prioritized backlog of user stories.
• Facilitate a collaborative planning, estimating process and ensure clear understanding of 
functional and non-functional requirements. 
• In collaboration with the Product Manager and application support, prioritise, refine and include L3 tickets in the sprint backlog.
• Schedule and facilitate scrum ceremonies (e.g. daily stand-ups, retros etc), decision-making 
processes, improve estimation efficiency and mitigate technical challenges by actively
engaging the whole team in the process.
• Monitor progress and performance using appropriate metrics and help the team to make 
improvements.
• Champion continuous improvement.
• Plan and organize demos.
• Ensure the proper use of collaborative processes and remove impediments for the scrum team.
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to understand and proactively track dependencies 
between teams.
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to improve the agile practice and ways of working.
• Support the Product Manager by preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

Skills:
• Certified scrum master
• Project management practices
• Agile delivery practices
• Excellent team management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong collaborative and partner approach
• Jira & Confluence
• Highly resilient
• Understanding of AWS cloud native development using EC2, Lambda, S3, Simple Que Service etc.
• Experience working on a technical/platform Product is essential
• Previous experience of working as a Scum Master cum Product Owner is desirable

Experience:

• 5+ years of agile delivery management experience 
• Ability to manage immature scrum teams, taking into account both where the team is now and with the long-term view of coaching them to develop into mature practices
• Management of teams that have built and maintained business critical products / applications with a high workload and competing priorities
• Exposure to Business critical systems integrations 
• Experience in handling DevOps & site reliability engineering teams will be an added advantage