Scrum Master (India)

Chennai, India

Rated 4.4 on Glassdoor, with a 99% CEO approval rating and 92% saying they would recommend FE fundinfo to a friend

Role: Scrum Master

Location: Remote working / Chennai - preferable

FE fundinfo is a global leader in investment fund data and technology.  We are proud of our vast, diverse, and highly skilled team, who help to make our industry Better Connected and Better Informed. 

What you can expect from joining our team

Leave, Personal & Family Benefits

• 24 days holiday
• Paid Study leave
• Paid sick leave
• Enhanced paternity & maternity
• Statutory benefits like PF, Gratuity, etc.

Health and Wellbeing

• Flexible home and office working
• Support to set up home office
• Health cover with option to add family members
• Dedicated mental wellness helpline
• Annual health check up
• Meal cards

As part of our global team you will:

• Have full LinkedIn Learning access
• Join a sustainable business that cares for the environment and our communities
• Have opportunities to give back to local communities through volunteer days
• Discover options to join and lead diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Get access to an app that tracks your activity while raising money for charities selected by employees
• Be invited to office social events and sport activities

Technology at FE fundinfo

Our Technology teams build and deploy software products for a wide range of financial market clients with a primary focus on the fund data value chain.

Our agile teams come together as global solution providers using the latest tools and innovative techniques:

• We are a cloud first solution provider working with Azure and other cloud platforms
• We combine product experts with our UX, development and QA teams to deliver features roadmaps for our products
• We are adopting devOps models across all our teams and have invested in pipeline architectures for seamless deployment strategies
• Our infrastructure engineers support our development teams with advanced infrastructure as Code frameworks to provide scale, monitoring and support for our resilience patterns
• We develop API families for our product to aid greater integration with our clients and partners

Technology career paths can take employees down a technical route into product technical leads, domain architects, scrum masters and technology evangelists

About the role

This position is full time and will be based at the company’s Chennai office.  The successful applicant will have a minimum of 6yrs relevant experience, with at least 5yrs as a Scrum Master.  The role involves coordinating scrum activity within the Product Development department.

Essential Duties

• Strongly serving and supporting the Product Owner and scrum teams
• Validate requirements fulfillment
• Stay updated on the deliverables to be completed and the challenges around them
• Providing all support to the scrum teams using a servant leadership style and leading by example. This person should personify Scrum and Agile.
• Guiding and Coaching the scrum teams and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices.
• Guiding and Coaching Scrum teams on how to get the most out of self-organization
• Guiding and Coaching the Scrum teams on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity and organization; coaching the teams to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Assisting with communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Supporting the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining (aka grooming)and managing the product backlog.
• Gather metrics and holding data driven discussions with the team is key
• Conducting effective retrospective meetings, building action plans and progress towards improvements.

Required Skills/Experience

• Minimum First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I)
• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least 5 years for multiple Scrum Team
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
• The ability to distinguish between what “is Scrum” what is “not Scrum”

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Second or Third level Scrum Master certification (PSM II, PSM III, CSP, CTC)
• Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc)
• Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.
• Knowledge of other approaches discussed in the Agile space: XP, Kanban, Nexus, LeSS, SAFe, Crystal, FDD, etc
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Applicable basic knowledge of the technologies used by the team: DevOps, Azure, C#, .NET, Git, REST is a value add.
• Previous experience as a collaborative leader
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills

What our people across the globe say about FE fundinfo

“Inclusive, supportive and rapidly developing.”

“Multicultural environment supporting health and wellbeing of its employees.”

“Through empowerment, trust and support I feel I'm valued, hugely supported and involved.”

“I can attack my work in a way that works for me.”

“Great diversity between all the teams which is interesting and enriching.”

“FE fundinfo has always been proactive in employee welfare”

“Positive people and a healthy work life balance”

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