Position Purpose: We are looking for a scrum master to join our client experience division. As a key member of the division, he/she will support agile squads to deliver product increments & release goals meeting vision & planning of product owner and ensure compliance to WMIS governance.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

- Strong understanding of project planning and delivery in Agile framework, scrum principles. Need to be able to lead squad to adopt best practices, measure KPI

- Work closely with the PO, sponsors to deliver the project deliverables, prioritization, estimations and planning

- Project management and release planning proficiency.

- Ensure the scrum team’s adherence to delivery schedule and estimates. Assess & surfaces all schedule risk and communicate accordingly.

- Creates partnership with product owners, stakeholders and transversal teams (security, solution architects, compliance…)

- Ensure coherence of the tasks in product/sprint backlog and commitment based on release and functionality of overall product

- Ensures squads compliance to WMIS governance

- Assures transparency of the work that is being done and communicate its progress via regular reporting inclusive of:

o Burndown Charts o Status reports, Risks, Issues
- Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

Contributing Responsibilities
- A member of the scrum master chapter, to share best practices and grow the community

- Participate in discovery sessions with customers and stakeholders

- Assess the Agile maturity of the team.



Coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

- Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory:

- 10 years experience in working with large distributed IT teams practicing agile principles
- 7 years of experience as Scrum Master preferably in teams developing client facing/web/mobile applications
- Certified scrum master
- Self-starter with strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude.
- Outstanding listener and empathetic
- Good personality with a ‘can-do’ attitude and interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills

Advantages:

- Experience with devops & devsecops
- Prince2, PMP, PMI-ACP certifications are added advantage
- Exposure to the following domains is a plus: Internet Banking, Digital Asset Management, Social Media integration...
- General banking knowledge or Banking knowledge related to Wealth Management / Private banking is a plus

Specific Qualifications:

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Skills Referential (Required knowledge, skills and abilities)

Technical Skills:

- Ability to manage a project
- Ability to inspire others and generate people’s commitment
- Analytical ability

Behavioral Skills:

- Personal Impact/ Ability to influence
- Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
- Attention to detail/ rigor

Education Level: Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Location: Chennai/India

📌 Scrum Master (Tamil Nadu)
🏢 BNP Paribas
📍 Tamil Nadu