- Minimum 8 years industry experience with at least 3 years of experience working as Scrum Master on projects executed using Agile Scrum methodology.
- Should have handled a scrum team of at least 7 team members or more.
- A strong team player with the ability to understand team issues and to encourage and enforce strong working ethics within the team.
- The ability to lead and motivate the team to fully adopt Scrum processes
- The ability to build strong and effective working relationships with all key contributors to the project – the development team (including QA), the PO and/or BA and the management stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills (verbal, written) – working with team to ensure that everyone is aware of progress and key issues.
- Ability to 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.
- Be supportive and pro-active – ensure that all impediments to progress are dealt with quickly and effectively.
- Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
- Is a self-starter with great attention to detail and follow through and who is resourceful and adept at managing through chaos to reach a goal
Strongly process driven with a desire to continuously improve development
