Req ID: 304751

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Scrum Master - Irving, Texas to join our team in Irving, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

NTT Data Americas is Hiring!

This is a permanent, fulltime, salaried position with benefits. Not open to C2C or C2H.

The work schedule is a hybrid model, requiring three days per week in the client office in Irving, Texas.

Job Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• Facilitation of Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review, and sprint retrospective)
• Coaching and mentoring team members on Agile principles and practices.
• Monitoring and improving team performance
• Requirements gathering and analysis

• Process modeling and improvement
• Client/stakeholder management and communication

• Documentation and reporting
• Maintain repository for the templates, best practices, lessons learned so that can be reused for the new projects
• Problem-solving and critical thinking

• Minimum eight years of experience working as a Scrum Master
• Bachelor's degree and minimum four years of product or project development experience, or at least three years of project development experience on an Agile Team, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

• Expertise in Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum
• Ability to remove impediments and foster a collaborative team environment
• Background with exemplifying and promoting Agile values and principles
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
• IVR production validation to ensure features and functionality are working as expected

• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, and Excel