Senior Scrum Master

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As one of the world's leading asset managers, Invesco is dedicated to helping investors worldwide achieve their financial objectives. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world.

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Job Description

Key Responsibilities / Duties :

Helps the team embrace agile core values, adopt, and apply lean and agile principles, and implement agile practices with a focus on Scrum and Kanban.

Contributes directly to the creation of new value by facilitating the team's progress toward its objectives -challenging the old ways of working to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow to continuously deliver value for the organization.

Leads team efforts in relentless improvement - helps the team improve and take responsibility for their actions; facilitates the team retrospective.

Teaches problem-solving techniques and facilitates problem-solving events.

Facilitates team events, including (where applicable) the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective, ensuring they are productive and kept within the timebox - driving collaborative and efficient development of new software functionality.

Supports the product owners and leadership to optimize the prioritization process.

Supports the forming of a high-performing team - focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance.

Facilitating and coaching the team on lean-agile practices such as :

Improving visualization of how work and value flows.

Improving the flow of value by adopting lean principles.

Defining explicit policies and ensuring they are followed.

Defining and improving on WIP limits.

Defining work item types and classes of services.

Driving change and continuous improvements using data and metrics.

Identifying bottlenecks and coaching for their removal.

Maintaining JIRA health and ensuring that metrics can be pulled from JIRA.

Work Experience / Knowledge :

Minimum of 5 years relevant experience as a Scrum Master

Experience with Scrum, Kanban , Scaled Agile

Agile Certified Professional certifications are preferred : Certified Scrum Master ( CSM ), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or similar.

Specialized Skills :

A driven, decisive, and effective team collaborator.

Must be organized, self-motivated, highly adaptable, and have an ardent desire to embrace change.

Solid teamwork and interpersonal skill. Engages daily with the tea m & helps them.

Outstanding leadership and motivational skills - possessing a willingness to empower as well as inspire commitment and positive attitude in the team.

Thinks of the big picture, beyond day-to-day activities; practices systems thinking.

Comfortable presenting to & working with senior leaders.

Formal Education :

A Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes Workplace Model

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office.

Why Invesco

In Invesco, we act with integrity and do meaningful work to create impact for our stakeholders. We believe our culture is stronger when we all feel we belong, and we respect each other's identities, lives, health, and well-being. We come together to create better solutions for our clients, our business and each other by building on different voices and perspectives. We nurture and encourage each other to ensure our meaningful growth, both personally and professionally.

We believe in diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace where everyone feels equally valued, and this starts at the top with our senior leaders having diversity and inclusion goals. Our global focus on diversity and inclusion has grown exponentially and we encourage connection and community through our many employee-led Business Resource Groups (BRGs).

What's in it for you?

As an organization we support personal needs, diverse backgrounds and provide internal networks, as well as opportunities to get involved in the community and in the world.

Our benefit policy includes but not limited to :

Competitive Compensation

Flexible, Hybrid Work

30 days' Annual Leave + Public Holidays

Life Insurance

Retirement Planning

Group Personal Accident Insurance

Medical Insurance for Employee and Family

Annual Health Check-up

26 weeks Maternity Leave

Paternal Leave

Adoption Leave

Near site Childcare Facility

Employee Assistance Program

Study Support

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

ESG Commitments and Goals

Business Resource Groups

Career Development Programs

Mentoring Programs

Invesco Cares

Dress for your Day

In Invesco, we offer development opportunities that help you thrive as a lifelong learner in a constantly evolving business environment and ensure your constant growth. Our AI enabled learning platform delivers curated content based on your role and interest. We ensure our manager and leaders also have many opportunities to advance their skills and competencies that becomes pivotal in their continuous pursuit of performance excellence.

To know more about us

About Invesco : https : / / www.invesco.com / corporate / en / home.html

About our Culture : https : / / www.invesco.com / corporate / en / about-us / our-culture.html

About our D&I policy : https : / / www.invesco.com / corporate / en / our-commitments / diversity-and-inclusion.html

About our CR program : https : / / www.invesco.com / corporate / en / our-commitments / corporate-responsibility.html

Apply for the role @ Invesco Careers : https : / / careers.invesco.com / india /

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