SCRUM Master

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We are currently seeking a SCRUM Master to join our team in Warren, New Jersey (US-NJ), United States (US).

Job Responsibilities Include:

• Lead and coach teams using Agile scrum methodology and practices
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies -- sprint planning, daily scrums, demos, and retrospectives and help teams adhere to defined goals of each event.
• Lead team and collaborate with the product owner on backlog grooming, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives. Provide detailed status and deliverables to senior leadership on kickoff presentations, project plans, budget reports, burndown/up reports, capacity plans, deployment plans, and other required deliverables per project requirements.
• Guide the product owner and development team on Agile best practices to achieve customer satisfaction.
• Lead the scrum and development teams in self-organization.
• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team.
• Provide project and/or product deliverables including
• Work with stakeholders to remove impediments for the agile team.

Project Management

• Report status and progress metrics to internal and client stakeholders while clearly articulating project risks.
• Changes that affect the scope, schedule, and resources are identified, managed, and controlled with an integrated and cohesive plan.
• Manages critical projects, customer engagements or business processes.
• Collaborate with testing team to ensure full testing is successfully performed -- including unit, functional, integration, regression, performance, and user acceptance -- to project standards.
• Provides thought leadership, guidance, and advice in own field.
• Adapts communication techniques for audiences at multiple internal and external levels.
• Pro-active in managing all the details throughout the project, to ensure that all action items are accomplished on a timely and accurate basis
• Prioritizes work so not only the most urgent work is completed, but also the most important
• Articulate and active participant in client and internal meetings; can deliver instructions in a clear and concise manner, providing proper materials and documentation when necessary
• Maintains a clear and reasonable vision of "next steps" and the "big picture" during meetings, conversations or whenever the parameters of a project change
• Adapting to scope creep and change requests.
• Supports team on scope and schedule issues
• Conduct Weekly project meetings and produce daily/ weekly status reports
• Work with technical teams to resolve blocking issues to deliver on client requirements
• Cultivates develops and manages strong, lasting customer relationships at the senior leadership level.
• Manages multiple medium to large projects or at least one complex project or program that require high levels of functional integration and some organizational change management

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years project management experience
• 5+ years of Agile/Scrum methodology experience

Certifications:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is required

Preferred Skills:

• Strong analytical and technical skills
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Previous experience/ technical knowledge managing Data Pods.
• Hands on experience of scope & change management related issues
• Bachelors or Master's
• Strong leadership and motivation skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Desirable

Advanced CSM and PMP certifications

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About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long term success. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure and connectivity. We are one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. Visit us at us.nttdata.com

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