Azure DevOps
Apply NowCompany: Tata Consultancy Services
Location: Toronto, ON M4E 3Y1
Description:
Inclusion without Exception:
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an equal opportunity employer, and embraces diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, age, physical ability, neurodiversity, and sexual orientation, to create a workforce that reflects the societies we operate in. Our continued commitment to Culture and Diversity is reflected in our people stories across our workforce and implemented through equitable workplace policies and processes.
About TCS:
TCS is an IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the worlds largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 55 years. Its consulting-led, cognitive-powered portfolio of business, technology, and engineering services and solutions is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS employs over 612,000 of the worlds best-trained consultants in 55 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $29 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024,and is listed on the BSE and the NSE in India. TCS' proactive stance on climate change and award-winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index.
Role Description:
Helping the team agree on what they can achieve during each development sprint (or other period of time).
Facilitating the daily standup (sometimes called the daily scrum) and helping the team reach consensus on each of the three questions.
Helping the team continuously make progress on the project by making sure each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacles to the team members progress, and protecting the team from distractions.
Required Skill Set:
Must-Have Associate must have good hands-on knowledge in JIRA, Confluence and Scrum Framework.
Good experience in Project Management experience in Agile projects.
Good understanding about the difference between waterfall and Agile projects and the Benefits of moving or transforming into Agile way of working.
The scrum master is often referred to as a servant leader, a coach, or a facilitator. That is because, despite the use of the term master, the person in this role does not have authority to make strategic or substantive decisions about the project and is not held accountable for its outcome. (The entire team shares responsibility for the projects success or failure.) The scrum master is responsible only for managing the process of moving the project toward completion.
A scrum master...Serves the product owner by: Making sure everyone on the team understands the projects goals and scope. Helping the product owner maintain the product backlog. Facilitating scrum events (daily standups, other meetings) as needed. Serves the development team by: Coaching the development team in self-organization. Helping to remove obstacles to the developers progress. Facilitating scrum events (daily standups, other meetings) as needed. Serves the entire organization by Encouraging the organization to adopt the scrum methodology in their own workflow.
Coaching the organization on the transition to a scrum working framework. Keeping the organization, particularly the projects stakeholders, up to date on the progress of the scrum teams projects.
Desired Skill Set:
Good-to-Have PSM level I (which demonstrates basic scrum proficiency) DASSM Certification (Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master Certification) PSM level II (which demonstrates advanced scrum proficiency) PSM level III (which demonstrates a distinguished level of scrum proficiency)
Tata Consultancy Services Canada Inc. is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC). Should you require accommodations during the recruitment and selection process, please inform Human Resources.
Thank you for your interest in TCS. Candidates that meet the qualifications for this position will be contacted within a 2-week period. We invite you to continue to apply for other opportunities that match your profile.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an equal opportunity employer, and embraces diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, age, physical ability, neurodiversity, and sexual orientation, to create a workforce that reflects the societies we operate in. Our continued commitment to Culture and Diversity is reflected in our people stories across our workforce and implemented through equitable workplace policies and processes.
About TCS:
TCS is an IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the worlds largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 55 years. Its consulting-led, cognitive-powered portfolio of business, technology, and engineering services and solutions is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS employs over 612,000 of the worlds best-trained consultants in 55 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $29 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024,and is listed on the BSE and the NSE in India. TCS' proactive stance on climate change and award-winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index.
Role Description:
Helping the team agree on what they can achieve during each development sprint (or other period of time).
Facilitating the daily standup (sometimes called the daily scrum) and helping the team reach consensus on each of the three questions.
Helping the team continuously make progress on the project by making sure each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacles to the team members progress, and protecting the team from distractions.
Required Skill Set:
Must-Have Associate must have good hands-on knowledge in JIRA, Confluence and Scrum Framework.
Good experience in Project Management experience in Agile projects.
Good understanding about the difference between waterfall and Agile projects and the Benefits of moving or transforming into Agile way of working.
The scrum master is often referred to as a servant leader, a coach, or a facilitator. That is because, despite the use of the term master, the person in this role does not have authority to make strategic or substantive decisions about the project and is not held accountable for its outcome. (The entire team shares responsibility for the projects success or failure.) The scrum master is responsible only for managing the process of moving the project toward completion.
A scrum master...Serves the product owner by: Making sure everyone on the team understands the projects goals and scope. Helping the product owner maintain the product backlog. Facilitating scrum events (daily standups, other meetings) as needed. Serves the development team by: Coaching the development team in self-organization. Helping to remove obstacles to the developers progress. Facilitating scrum events (daily standups, other meetings) as needed. Serves the entire organization by Encouraging the organization to adopt the scrum methodology in their own workflow.
Coaching the organization on the transition to a scrum working framework. Keeping the organization, particularly the projects stakeholders, up to date on the progress of the scrum teams projects.
Desired Skill Set:
Good-to-Have PSM level I (which demonstrates basic scrum proficiency) DASSM Certification (Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master Certification) PSM level II (which demonstrates advanced scrum proficiency) PSM level III (which demonstrates a distinguished level of scrum proficiency)
Tata Consultancy Services Canada Inc. is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC). Should you require accommodations during the recruitment and selection process, please inform Human Resources.
Thank you for your interest in TCS. Candidates that meet the qualifications for this position will be contacted within a 2-week period. We invite you to continue to apply for other opportunities that match your profile.