Guidewire Scrum Master Manager

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Job Description & Summary

Enhancing your leadership style you motivate develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching leveraging team members unique strengths and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills knowledge and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects ensuring their successful planning budgeting execution and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality timelines and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues engaging in difficult conversations with clients team members and other stakeholders escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance) the Firms code of conduct and independence requirements.

Education Qualification - BTech/BE/MTech/MS/MCA/MBA.

Total Experience 9 to 12 years

Roles & Responsibilities

* Minimum of 6 years experience facilitating Agile teams and transformation initiatives.
* Lead and mentor multiple Scrum teams to high performance.
* Promote Agile practices beyond teams with portfolio and program-level integration.
* Manage and resolve complex impediments and organizational blockers.
* Drive Agile maturity assessments and continuous improvement initiatives.
* Collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure alignment of priorities.
* Develop and execute Agile coaching strategies across the organization.
* Oversee Agile metrics reporting and governance.
* Foster a culture of collaboration innovation and accountability.
* Delegate tasks effectively and coach teams to achieve desired outcomes.
* Gain a deep understanding of the clients business operations and market dynamics to better align team efforts with client objectives.

Must Have Skills

• Proven experience leading Agile transformations and mentoring Scrum Masters.
• Expertise in Scrum Kanban SAFe or other Agile frameworks.
• Strong leadership influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with Agile project management tools (JIRA Azure DevOps Rally).
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent teams.
• Strong knowledge of Agile metrics and continuous improvement processes.
• Excellent facilitation conflict resolution and negotiation skills.

Good to Have Skills

• Experience in scaled agile frameworks (SAFe LeSS Nexus).
• Agile coaching certification.
• AgilePM certification.
• Familiarity with risk management and change management.
• Experience in client management and large teams.
• Certification preparation experience.

Preferred Certification

* SAFe Agilist

Travel Requirements

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