Senior Scrum Master

At Cotality, we are driven by a single mission—to make the property industry faster, smarter, and more people-centric. Cotality is the trusted source for property intelligence, with unmatched precision, depth, breadth, and insights across the entire ecosystem. Our talented team of 5,000 employees globally uses our network, scale, connectivity and technology to drive the largest asset class in the world. Join us as we work toward our vision of fueling a thriving global property ecosystem and a more resilient society.

Cotality is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive work culture that inspires innovation and bold thinking; it's a place where you can collaborate, feel valued, develop skills and directly impact the real estate economy. We know our people are our greatest asset. At Cotality, you can be yourself, lift people up and make an impact. By putting clients first and continuously innovating, we're working together to set the pace for unlocking new possibilities that better serve the property industry.

Job Description:

As a hands-on Senior Scrum Master, you will coordinate efforts from resources in multiple locations (domestic and/or international), to meet technology and product goals. You will play a central role in managing and transforming a complex ecosystem of applications that have a mix of legacy technologies and cloud native technologies. This candidate will manage the day to day resources and stories within the backlog.

You will be agile, adaptable and retrospective; not afraid to identify what we are doing wrong so we can fix it and what we are doing right so we can improve on it.

Job Duties

• Work with the product management to get the product vision defined, get the product roadmap created 

• Promoting Product ideas into features: Get the product roadmap items converted to Epics, refine them with the help of PO, Architects, Principal/Lead Engineer and SMEs

• Prioritizing features to be delivered: Get the product backlog prioritized by the product management regularly

• Break down features into workable items: Decompose the Business Epics to User stories, refine them with the development team and get them estimated

• Work with the Architect/ Principal engineer to get Solution architecture laid out. Identify tech enabler Epics, decompose them to enabler stories then prioritized alongside user stories. 

• Managing Scope: Define the scope/objective of the sprints

• Managing Timelines: Define timelines for the delivery of key features by factoring the estimate of the work and the capacity of the team 

• Managing team commitments: Hold team accountable for meeting the sprint commitments. Be a servant leader. Promote self-organizing team-culture. Unblock their impediments. Keep the motivation and the morale of the team members up

• Managing quality of the delivered software: Promote test-driven approach. Set standards with unit test coverage. Encourage teams to refactor the code to improve maintainability.  Work with the QA members to manage the defects in INT/UAT

• Managing production roll out: Ensure UAT completion. Get product signoff. Raise change requests for product deployments. Get Veracode scan reports created for the modified components and get ISM approval. Get the Enterprise change manager approval for the CR. Manage the production roll-out activities. Carry out product checkout with PO

• Analyzing Product Manager feature requests and drives Product Development from the start until its competition

• Collaborate with the product management to get the requirements defined, work with the team leads (PO, Architect, Principal engineer, SMEs) to decompose the requirements to actionable plan (stories), plan the execution in sprints, take care of release management activities, promote frequent delivery with incremental value to the end-users

Job Qualifications:

Education, Experience, Knowledge and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS, or related discipline, or equivalent related experience

• Expected to have at least 5 years of IT experience, aligned with 3+ years in Scrum Master or related role.

• Expert knowledge in BA approaches/tools, project coordination and management functions on 1+ projects, delivering sustainable solutions (+excellent understanding of Agile principles and values)

• Fundamental knowledge of SDLC and PM methodologies