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Job Summary

• As a Scrum Master, you will serve as a facilitator for the development team, you will engage in servant leadership & manage the Agile Process through guidance, coaching, and education, and removing impediments to progress.
• You would Support and educate the team, particularly with respect to refining and managing the product backlog, metrics useful to the company, processes that streamlines decision making, and communicating dependencies across teams.
• You will lead with understanding of Agile knowledge, what works best for the team given constraints, and know how to best adjust to maximize team's success Always learning & willing to experiment within what makes the most sense for the team at the time.

Key Accountabilities

• Facilitate daily scrum, Sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings
• Help Product Owner to prioritize product backlogs and make them ready for the next sprint Forecast the numbers of deliverables possible in a Sprint and a Release, which is based on evidence and reliable source
• Expert in estimation and planning. Must know how to create useful, reliable, and practical plans for software development projects
• Help overcome engineering or product management barriers and blockers
• Good coach in agile practices. Coach individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Ensure all teams have clear guidelines / User stories & that test plans are in place. Monitor execution, communicate and coordinate across teams and team members.

Key Requirements

• 4-5 years’ experience in a similar role in a project for a reputable organization
• Certified Scrum Master with excellent knowledge of the Scum framework, artifacts and techniques.
• UAT/Testing Experience
• Familiar with Jira Resource Boards, Dashboards, Filter creation, as well as familiar with Confluence.
• Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
• Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics
• Understand backlog grooming, burn down metrics, velocity, and BDD driven Acceptance Criteria
• Experience as an software engineer is a plus
• Experience operating in an Agile Environment and with CI/CD pipeline driving DevOps best practices within development teams.

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Role Objectives

• The Enterprise Architect sets the direction and establishes the approach of an organization's operations, improves the IT infrastructure, and optimizes their business operations.
• The Enterprise Architect works to align and integrate the organization's strategy and programs with associated technology components.

Responsibilities
Strategy & Planning:

• Evaluating internal functions, business development strategies, and IT processes and suggesting improvements.
• Creating business architecture models to reflect the organization's strategies and goals and creating and implementing business visions and goals.
• Suggesting ideas to reduce costs in IT and business leadership.
• Providing business architecture and systems processing guidance.
• Ensuring the efficiency, security, and support of the organization's goals.
• Creating methods for compliance architecture, such as data storage, metadata management, and change control.
• Determining and implementing build versus buy strategies, mentor personnel, and views of the overall business strategy.
• Supports all architectural disciplines and champions’ architectural initiatives.
• Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as support of all architectural disciplines under their direction.
• Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains.
• Aligns architecture strategy with business goals.
• Defines, explains, and advocates technology strategy.
• Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Designs and implements short- and long-term strategic plans to ensure Interswitch’s infrastructure capacity meets existing and future requirements with regards to employee usage and application hosting

Operational Management:

• Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solutions.
• Leads teams in developing technology plans.
• Provides strategic consultation to business and IT leaders.
• Lead adoption of the enterprise architecture framework adoption
• Works with business leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy.
• Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Develops a communication plan for architecture at the enterprise level.
• Directs the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends.
• Ensures recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment.
• Approves the tools and components used within the enterprise.
• Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.
• Drive architectural changes through incident management by proposing relevant changes while collaborating with the respective teams for deployment.
• Leads the change manager team towards continuous improvement of the change management process and ensuring the deployed changes are in line with business needs.
• Developing standards and frameworks towards aligning with business.
• Provide artifacts (information assets, application, and IT services) to be stored within EA for reuse.
• Review the enterprise alongside other architects to streamline processes and reuse resources.

Academic Qualifications

• University Degree in the field of Computer Science or "STEM" major (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or related fields.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Minimum of 7 years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations.
• TOGAF or Zachman certified
• Experience in working with multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
• Requires exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture, business re-engineering principles and processes, and basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting.
• Experience with cloud and container technology.

Personal Attributes:

• Proven leadership ability.
• Ability to set and manage priorities judiciously.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Strong tactical skills.
• Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical addressees.
• Exceptionally self-motivated and directed.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional service orientation.
• Ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

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Responsibilities

• Contribute proactively to new service development.
• Ensure quality, up-to-date documentation exists for all service arrangements
• Provide technical and business consultative leadership throughout the technical life cycle of technical solutions.
• Manage and develop strategic partnerships with third party suppliers and other internal stakeholders for Cloud Aggregators or Managed Service Providers.
• Coordinate with the sales team in formulating and building up proposal knowledge, including making technical demos and presentations to customers.
• Demonstrate ability, determination and tenacity to move major initiatives forward and drive focus while consistently thinking of the bottom-line impact of the efforts
• Will be involved from pre-sales solution formulation through system deployment; including bid preparation and customer interface resulting in solutions architecture proposals.
• The Solutions Architect will develop and articulate solutions based on a customer's strategic business or technical requirements ascertained from working with multiple business units across the customer's organization.
• Assist in the translation of customer needs/technical requirements to appropriate solutions by liaising with customers to understand, anticipate and meet their specific needs.
• Design service solutions for Managed Service customers in line with ITIL and/or industry best practice.
• Proven business development experience and familiarity with cloud services markets
• Manage multi-faceted projects with diverse stakeholders across different continents. A track record of successful project management is important.
• Familiarity with international, regional and local provider markets.

Skills & Qualification Required

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Information Communication Technology, Engineering or Computer Science Cisco CCNA/CCDA/CCIP/CCNP/CCDP/CWNA
• PMI, Prince 2 or other industry equivalent
• Certifications in Cloud Technologies, SDN is considered a plus for this
• 7-10 years of experience.