Scrum Master

About Us:

Marriott International Inc., headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, was founded in May 1927 by J. Willard Marriott and Alice S. Marriott with a modest nine-seat A&W root beer stand. Guided by the family's leadership and core principles, Marriott International today has grown into a global hospitality giant, operating approximately 9,000 properties and over 30 leading brands in more than 140 countries and territories.

From such humble beginnings to becoming the world's largest hotel company, Marriott International has never stopped searching for inventive ways to serve its customers, provide opportunities for its associates, and grow their business. At Marriott Tech Accelerator center (MTA), Hyderabad, India, Marriott is exploring the world we live in and all its possibilities. At Marriott Tech Accelerator, we are a team of passionate engineering minds dedicated to creating and building cutting-edge solutions that streamline operations and elevate guest experiences.

Marriott Tech Accelerator center is fully owned and operated by ANSR. All associates at Marriott Tech Accelerator will be ANSR employees, delivering services exclusively to ANSR's client, Marriott International.

To know more about us, please visit https://talent500.co/companies/marriott-tech-accelerator

Marriott's core values:

At Marriott, our core values make us who we are. We believe that success is never final. As we change and grow, the beliefs that are most important to us stay the same—putting people first, pursuing excellence, embracing change, acting with integrity, and serving our world. Being part of Marriott Tech Accelerator means being part of a proud history and a thriving culture.

Role Title: Scrum Master

Position Summary:

This role will be responsible for leading and coaching teams that deliver customer and business value with speed and quality. You will use your growth mindset to empower, motivate and mature the Agile capabilities of the teams you support in a way that results in measurable improvements. You will oversee and champion Scrum and Kanban events and artifacts, report on and monitor work progress, identify potential risks and dependencies, remove impediments, lead the team to continuously improve and help scale best practices at Marriott.

Effectively and efficiently manages the development sprints from planning to execution to review in an agile development environment. Runs daily scrums, collaborates on requirement documentation, and unblocks barriers to keep the team moving. Coaches and collaborates with cross-functional teams, Product Owners, other Scrum Masters to foster decision-making and continuous improvement. Demonstrates strong leadership abilities and guide the development of agile capabilities in the Global Technology organization and across Marriott's portfolio of products.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience acting as Scrum master for large teams with multiple product deliveries and demonstrated ability to develop and mature Agile best practices across teams at organizations. You will drive measurable improvements to predictability and quality for product delivery. You have a strong interest in process definition and ongoing improvement. You have a successful track record of using metrics across discovery, implementation and release to facilitate accountability and increased visibility into team performance.

Job Responsibilities:

• Facilitates the work of a squad team on a sprint-by-sprint basis
• Responsible for steering contributors through all the scrum ceremonies including sprint increment planning, demos, reviews
• Drives the squad to continuously improve through the facilitation of Retrospectives quarterly, or more often as needed, to improve backlog management, sprint reviews, or higher-level functions
• Project Leadership
• Functions as escalation point for the squad to resolve issues
• Maintains agile tools and dashboards to track stories, defects, and progress toward commitments managing Program Increments, Projects and Policies
• Serves as liaison with stakeholders, development agency and hosting provider
• Directs and coordinates activities to monitor feature(s) and project(s) so that they progress on schedule and within budget
• Establishes standards and procedures for sprint, feature, and project reporting and documentation
• Informs the appropriate team members of feature or project status and related issues and impediments and escalates appropriately

Skill and Experience:

• 5+ years experience as a Scrum Master and /or Agile coach
• Minimum 4 years of experience in IT full development life cycle
• Expert in Agile tools, such as Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Agile practitioner mindset with an understanding of common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and iterative development practices
• CSM / SAFe certification or equivalent preferred
• Demonstrated track record of successful ability to manage large and complex consulting engagements
• Flexibility to work with teams, individuals and executives and willingness to help with a wide variety of work products and people
• Ability to establish immediate credibility with stakeholders, build consensus, and achieve goals through influence
• Ability to speak in front of large audiences and facilitate large, multi-day ceremonies
• Skilled in conceptualizing creative solutions, documenting them, and presenting/selling them to senior management
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Extremely high level of analytical ability to measure the velocity, capacity, and value of teams contributions
• Very high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output in a team environment Core Work

Education and Certifications:

• Undergraduate degree, equivalent experience, or certification

Work location: Hyderabad, India.

Work mode: Hybrid