Agile Scrum Master

Location: India

We seek an experienced Agile Master to join our dynamic SEC OSM team at SOCIETE GENERALE Global solutions India Limited. As an Agile master, you will facilitate and coordinate Agile processes within our organisation, ensuring the team can work collaboratively.

You will work closely with the centre of excellence team to ensure public cloud native services delivery progresses on schedule, within sprint cycles, and to the desired level of quality. Additionally, you will serve as a coach and mentor to our team – helping to foster a culture of continuous improvement and ensuring that the team is meeting its objectives consistently.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome individuals of diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas to apply for this position. We are committed to creating a dynamic and inclusive work environment that values and celebrates diversity and strives to provide a positive work-life balance for all employees.

Primary Responsibilities:

Promote servant leadership by enabling self-organizing teams, shielding the team from distractions, coaching Product Owners and stakeholders, and fostering effective collaboration and alignment across teams.

• Leverage prior understanding of Cybersecurity tools and techniques to enhance/enable the value of Agile within security Risk management teams.

• Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.

• Familiar with common development practices, Service oriented environments, and Agile practices

• Utilize a broad knowledge base of agile practices including user stories, retrospectives, story mapping, Acceptance Test-Driven Development, continuous integration, etc. , to help create high performing teams.

• Excellent knowledge of the scrum framework, agile-at-scale, program increment, release train, with all its artifacts and techniques. You’ll also need the ability to coordinate people and projects (occasionally facilitating changes) with your mind set on deliverables

• Encourage a continuous improvement culture for individuals within the agile teams, constantly discovering better ways of working, through transparency, collaboration, and retrospectives.

• Curate team-level coaching content used to guide teams regarding agile practices.

• Adapt Agile practices to the unique realities and demands of cybersecurity use cases

• Facilitate meetings with the teams for purposes of idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, problem-solving and alignment.

• Help the teams gain transparency into their workflow through appropriate use of information radiators.

• Address blocking issues that are beyond the teams’ authority, or require support from other teams, so the teams remain focused on achieving their goals

• Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.

• Design, implement, maintain and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.

• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban etc.

Profile

Required skills and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master.

• Understanding of cybersecurity concepts, risk management and public cloud security.

• Strong knowledge of Agile Scrum principles and practices.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Ability to lead and facilitate Scrum ceremonies.

Preferred skills and qualifications

• General conceptual understanding of Cybersecurity application in public cloud.

• Certification in Agile methodologies, like Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM).

• SAFe certification and Kanban certification are a plus.

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• Prior knowledge of Agile project management tools, such as Jira , Klaxoon etc

Why Join Us
“We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status”.

• At Société Générale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of

tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious.
Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have
a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating and taking action are part of our DNA.
If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a
daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!
Still hesitating?
You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during
their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional
integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices and sharing their skills with
charities. There are many ways to get involved.