AVP - Scrum Master

The Integration Scrum Master is a servant leader with a growth mindset, responsible for the overall support of the squad delivery of the workstream book of work.  They are responsible for acting as a trusted coach, guiding the squad during ceremonies, removing impediments, and embodying our ways of working. Additionally, the Integration Scrum Master takes the lead in maintaining the accuracy of JIRA and governance artifacts in addition to promoting, improving, training, mentoring and adoption of project management and scum master best practices.

 Role and Responsibilities

•       Remove impediments from the Implementation squad

•       Interact with Coe’s on status, issues, collaboration

•       Liaise with Product Owner/Stakeholders/PMO

•       Plan and chair (host) key meetings, help facilitate Sprint 0, SoS, PI planning and distribute minutes for tracking purposes; follow-up as required

•       In JIRA ensure that traceability is maintained, accuracy and overall health is provided via metrics and dashboards; ensure rules are being followed and JIRA hygiene and disciplines are being maintained.

•       Train users and oversee JIRA backlog and planning sessions (PO owns backlog). Additionally, accurately define “Issue Type and Association” in JIRA

•       Create project(s), perform updates on resource, tasks, and allocations. Staffing profiles, time tracking, budgeting, and monitoring forecast vs. actuals

•       Create, prepare, and manage release planning agenda, requests for quarterly releases

•       Facilitate release planning sessions 

•       Prepare release capacity planning

•       Acts as a change agent, guiding the squad on agile best practices and alignment with Our Ways of Working (OWoW) while promoting continuous improvement

•       Takes a holistic view of squad’s body of work and being forward-thinking on initiatives and epics

Skills and Experience

•       Minimum of 6 years of related experience

•       Bachelor's degree preferred with master’s or equivalent experience

•       Certified Scrum Master

•       Experience in the Financial Services industry preferable

•       Working experience of Agile

•       Understanding the end-to-end Institutional post trade Derivatives lifecycle highly desirable

•       Experience with similar business/application messaging systems and protocols (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, SQL, MQ, Sftp, MS azure, XLST) an advantage

Soft Skills:

•       Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

•       Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities

•       Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines  

•       Attention to detail and organisational skills

•       Leadership and team management skills

How We Work:

Delta Capita is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, colour, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require any reasonable adjustments through your interview process, please use the designated space within the application questionnaire.

This is a permanent full-time position located in Pune. As the selection and interview process is ongoing, please submit your application in English as soon as possible, if your profile is selected, a member of our team will contact you within 4 weeks.

Who Are We:

Delta Capita Group (a member of the Prytek Group) is a global managed services, consulting and solutions provider with a unique combination of experience in Financial Services and technology innovation capability. Our mission is to reinvent the financial services value chain providing technology based mutualized services for financial institutions for non-differentiating services.

Our 3 offerings are:

·       Managed Services

·       Consulting & Solutions

·       Technology

To know more about Delta Capita and our culture click here: Working at DC - Delta Capita.

Delta Capita India is a Great Place to Work Certified Organization. Please refer to DC GPTW