Scrum Master

Posting Description:

JD for Scrum Master

Aon PLC is a British multinational professional services firm that sells a range of financial risk-mitigation products, including insurance, pension administration, and health-insurance plans. Aon has approximately 50,000 employees in 120 countries.

Responsibilities:
 Conceptualize, define, and manage technology projects from end-to-end, working closely with the development and business teams.
 Participate in estimations with tech and business teams and draft it using standard templates.
 Communicate and track the project progress to cross-functional teams, ensuring its overall success.
 Ensure progress of multiple projects against schedule, within budget and to high quality standards.
 Define, manage, and improve the development process.
 Mentor/educate team members and peers in SCRUM / project management methods and best practices.
 Manage and drive change where needed to core operational processes, dynamically reacting to evolving client needs and competing priorities.
 Manage each major and minor platform release worldwide, then collect and share valuable lessons learned.
 Help global teams to juggle schedules and resources.
 Effectively communicate objectives and updates to all key stakeholders.

Required Experience:
 Overall experience of around 12+ years out of which 3-5 years in leading teams with a minimum of five years in large-scale system project management set in an agile framework.
 Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience of working in Scrum methodology as a Scrum Master. This being said, there are also some traditional project management aspects and needs that you also must be able to handle.
 Should have experience of planning, executing and monitoring a sprint.
 Should be aware of agile planning techniques such as poker planning.
 Hands-on in reporting the fortnightly, monthly project status to the stakeholders.
 Self-starter, comfortable with implementing and executing Agile development processes and accepting responsibility for seeing projects through to completion.
 Should be a strong team player capable of building trust within the team.
 Should be well-versed in the art of stakeholder management.
 Should be an expert with reporting various metrics such as sprint burndown, cumulative flow charts and interpret it to the team to support a continuous growth mindset.
 Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, and management skills.

Preferred Experience:

Finance or Investment Consulting Industry experience or strong interest,