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The company is looking for a Scrum Master with Project Manager Experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience and must have a background in the airline domain. This position is located in Abu Dhabi.
Job Description:
The Scrum Master will report to the Release Train Engineer and is responsible for facilitating all aspects of scrum ceremonies to ensure successful product delivery. The role includes overseeing sprint planning sessions, backlog grooming sessions, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. The Scrum Master will resolve impediments and manage the backlog while acting as a coach to enhance agility and support the scrum methodology and tools.
Accountabilities
- Maintain the scrum team capacity plan, scrum board, sprint backlog, velocity charts, and burn down charts.
- Oversee multiple teams as an M1 Scrum Master.
- Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings.
- Address and eliminate impediments requiring support from other teams and guide teams on removing impediments while providing issue escalation as needed.
- Proactively manage risks and issues, including resources, costs, and systems, and recommend appropriate solutions.
- Ensure teams achieve their objectives while keeping the focus on goals.
- Coordinate between teams (DevOps, Architects, and other Scrum Masters) and assist with internal and external communication to improve transparency and collaboration.
- Guide and coach scrum teams in adherence to Agile/Scrum principles and practices while reinforcing the SAFe framework.
- Ensure scrum teams are utilizing best practice agile delivery tools and templates, including documenting and tracking user stories.
- Report on the status of delivery using agreed-upon reporting metrics such as burndown charts.
Education & Experience:
- 5+ years of Project Management experience.
- 9+ years of experience working as a Scrum Master or in end-to-end agile process delivery (agile transformation).
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field is mandatory.
- Certification in Scrum Master (CSM or SAFe) is mandatory.
- Experience in relevant business/development support, agile delivery, user story creation, writing, and estimation.
- Strong knowledge of project, program, and portfolio management practices, following agile methodologies, along with a solid understanding of product management principles.
