Job Description

Location - Bangalore

Mode - Hybrid

Why BT

We\'ve always been an organisation with a purpose; to use the power of communication to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world\'s firs telecommunications company. At our heart we\'re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.
Today in this fast-changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulations and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So, if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we\'ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that\'s you and what you\'re looking for, we\'d love you to be part of our future.

What you\'ll be doing - your accountabilities

• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies (daily stand up, sprint review, and sprint retrospective, demos/showcases) in a way that ensures full team engagement and work with the team to continually refine and improve.
• Guide the squad on how to use scrum and agile practices and methodologies and when they should be used appropriately.
• Optimize team allocation and utilization by guiding the team on how to get the most of out of self-organization, using team metrics (e.g. team velocity, sprint progress/burn down charts) to drive performance
• Shields the team from external interference and ensure the team is fully functional and productive.
• Removes blockers that inhibit team productivity (when individuals themselves cannot reasonably resolve them), escalates as required.
• Facilitate the team to become self-organizing and cross-functional, fosters close cooperation across all team members, encourage cross-training and supporting each other. Continually inspect and adapt the squad\'s ways of working.
• Supports Product Owner on release planning.
• Work with other Scrum master\'s to improve the application of Agile practices and cross-collaboration for delivery execution

The skills you\'ll need to succeed

• Coaching: Demonstrated coaching ability, with a strong servant leadership philosophy
• Transformative change delivery: ability to identify business outcomes, manage dependencies and deliver change in complex environments.
• Stakeholder management: ability to manage and influence stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Business expertise: defined by the project scope.
• Software Development Lifecycle: Demonstrated understanding of the software development lifecycle and technical change delivery.
• Facilitation: Excellent facilitator, with the ability to communicate and adapt your style based on the situation / context
• Scrum Master Certification preferred (PSM2 / ACSM).

Hands on Experience with:

• 6-7 years\' experience in the relevant field or equivalent MANDATORY
• Experience with one or more agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, DSDM) MANDATORY
• Practical experience in Agile methodologies MANDATORY
• Demonstrated 2-3+ years\' experience or equivalent in the role of a Scrum Master delivering cross-functional change using Agile (i.e. across business and technology) MANDATORY
• Demonstrated coaching experience, with a strong servant leadership philosophy MANDATORY.

Who is the BT Group

We\'re the leading communications provider with customers in 180 countries. Across the world we enable customer\'s digital transformations so they can thrive. Our focus is simple: be the global provider-of-choice for managed network and IT infrastructure services.

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