Delivery Manager/Scrum Master Jobs at IFS in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

At IFS you will work in a growing, global enterprise software company built upon committed and empowered colleagues who come to work knowing they are making a difference. We work every day within our single platform and embedded digital innovation to help our customers be their best when it really matters to their customers – at the Moment of Service™. We take pride in ensuring that our employees are able to achieve the company goals as well as develop their career. We believe empowered autonomy, committed colleagues and being part of a winning team are the keys to our success and what makes us great!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

In this role, you will facilitate Agile software development teams executing the Software Development Lifecycle, including design, architecture, development, documentation, and testing per the organization’s Agile principles.  Additional responsibilities include:

• Dynamically maintain Scrum team composition as the product evolves through the product lifecycle.
• Work with functional leads to assign resources, including product, software engineering, quality assurance, enterprise architecture, systems engineering, network engineering, telecom engineering, information security, and others as may be needed
• Serve Scrum teams through the resolution of roadblocks both within the team and across teams, mediation of conflicts, team decision-making, and team self-organization.
• Continuous coaching of the Scrum team and individuals. Facilitation of positive conflict to drive better outcomes (rather than a compromise). Advocacy for under-heard members of the team
• Facilitate the definition of Scrum team artefacts, including the definition of done and team agreements.
• Ensure the Scrum framework is executed in an agreed fashion, including issue definition, refinement, pointing, execution, quality assurance, and release, without piling up at the end of the sprint and without overburdening any one team member.
• Ensure the Scrum team executes Jira issues (epics, stories, tasks, bugs) per agreed form and format, including testable declarative statements, linking to other issues including dependencies and epics, tagging, labelling, assignment to sprints and releases, fix versions, and setting of workflow states.
• Maintain Jira projects, boards, filters, and other information radiators as needed.
• Prepare, organize, and facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including backlog refinement, product increment planning, release planning, sprint planning, daily Scrum, Scrum of Scrums, and retrospectives
• Arrange and optimize sprint backlog in collaboration with Product
• Report velocity, sprint burndown, release burn up and other measures of progress per sprint and as needed

Required: 

A Bachelor’s degree is required, and a post-graduate degree or qualification is beneficial. (e.g. BBusSci, Bcom Information Systems/Informatics, Bcom Bus Mgt in Project Management, PMI/Prince2 Certification, PMBOK, Agile / Scrum Certification)

Experience:

A minimum of 4-6 years of experience in a similar role. (Including experience in managing resources, and facilitation with technical teams and stakeholders)

Proven experience as an Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master

Thorough understanding of project management techniques and methods

Excellent knowledge of Jira and Confluence; working knowledge of program/project management software

Competencies:

Outstanding leadership and organizational skills; Excellent communication skills; Excellent problem-solving and conflict management ability; Ability to prioritize and multi-task; Proven ability to manage and execute projects, Experience in drafting and supporting client proposals, consulting skills beneficial