Job Overview
Job TitleScrum Master
Job TypeFull Time
Offered Salary$100,000
LocationTrivandrum, Kerala, India
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Job Description
Scrum Master at Equifax
Equifax is seeking a dedicated Scrum Master to serve as a servant leader for their scrum teams. This role is crucial in protecting the squad, promoting Agile and Scrum principles, and ensuring a smooth development process. You will be instrumental in facilitating ceremonies, managing risks, and supporting the overall delivery framework.
Key Responsibilities:
- Protect the scrum process and prevent distractions for the team.
- Ensure the proper front-door process is followed for work intake.
- Identify and escalate risks and issues to the P&E Tribe Lead.
- Provide bi-weekly squad-level status updates to P&E Tribe Leads.
- Facilitate all Scrum/Kanban ceremonies, including planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, reviews, demos, and retrospectives.
- Manage team capacity using tools like velocity and burndown charts, and facilitate estimation.
- Partner with P&E Tribe or Segment Leads for quarterly planning.
- Support the Planning & Delivery Framework, including Jira processes, squad capacity monitoring, delivery tracking, release management, and blocker removal.
Key skills/competency
- Scrum Master
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Jira
- Risk Management
- Facilitation
- Team Capacity Planning
- Process Improvement
- Servant Leadership
How to Get Hired at Equifax
- Tailor your resume: Highlight Scrum Master experience, Agile methodologies, and specific tools like Jira. Quantify achievements whenever possible to demonstrate impact.
- Craft a compelling cover letter: Express your understanding of Equifax's mission and how your servant leadership style aligns with their values.
- Prepare for interviews: Be ready to discuss your experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies, resolving impediments, and fostering team collaboration.
- Showcase Agile expertise: Demonstrate your knowledge of Scrum theory, practices, and values, and how you apply them to protect and guide your team.
- Research Equifax's culture: Understand their commitment to data security and customer trust, and how your role contributes to these objectives.
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