About the role 

In this role you will manage Project delivery, ensure delivery of assigned IT projects/IT solutions working closely with business users, other departments of the QR and suppliers. You are responsible to provide a clear vision of the product. This includes solutions built in-house, acquired packages and IT application support

Key Responsibilities

• Manage two or more Scrum Teams within an agile development. This will include supporting product development from product ideation to production rollout as well as driving the planning sessions for Product Increment.
• Help Product owner, other team members in crafting the strong product roadmap, ensuring backlog and sprint goal are delivered and drive the team towards Self-empowerment.
• Act as the agile mentor/coach to the team members within in the agile team.
• Proactively identifies impediments and appropriately resolves using leadership skills in most cases and through formal channels, including escalation to senior stakeholders as required
• Ensure product delivery as Senior Practitioner utilizing Scaled Agile or Kanban methodologies
• Leading scrum sessions for outcome with creative solutions for project execution as well as problem resolution.
• Timely and accurate project progress reporting provided to IT and business senior level management stakeholders.
• Provide team members with timely, constructive feedback to drive high performance and accountability for superior results and team engagement.

About you 

• Bachelor’s Degree or Honors in Engineering / Computer Science / Mathematics / Sciences or Equivalent with 7+ Years of experience with minimum 5 years of experience as scrum master or in similar role.
• Scrum Certified (CSM or PSM).
• Excellent knowledge, understanding and proven track record on delivering complex business and technology transformations as Scrum Master.
• Knowledge of end-to-end software development life cycle, starting from requirements phase until delivery and rollout preferably on Azure DevOps using SCRUM methodology.
• Deep understanding of Agile and Scrum principles and practices.
• Using Agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Facilitate Scrum events and ceremonies, such as the sprint planning meeting, daily standup, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Training, mentoring, and supporting Scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
• Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items and make this apparent to Project Stakeholders.
• Planning and organizing reviews/ demos and product/system testing.
• Ensuring team utilization for Functional, Non-Functional and Architectural requirements.
• Ensure projects are carried out through the defined phases fully complying with QR IT processes and procedures, with solutions meet agreed requirements and business expectations, are maintainable and meet documented and agreed criteria.
• Excellent facilitation and coaching skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of Business Processes and Knowledge on Airline, travel, ecommerce domains will be an added advantage
• Domain knowledge of Corporate functions such as HR, Finance, Facilities/Transport, Procurement would be added advantage.

Qualifications

Application Guidelines

Employees must submit applications through internal vacancies portal (via GEMS) only.

Please see below for all eligibility and requirements for internal applications and please note that any applications not meeting the criteria will not be processed.

·       All internal candidates can only have three active applications at any point in time.

·       All internal candidates must have completed a minimum 10 months in their current role in order to apply for a new role

·       All internal candidates with an active final warning letter will be automatically disqualified from the recruitment process

·       If you are Cabin Crew or Deck Crew(Qatar Airways & Qatar Executive) candidate, you would require NOC to apply for this role.