Company Description

At Xplor, we help businesses thrive by making life simple for daily activities with a recurring nature. We do that by offering smart software, payments, and commerce-enabling solutions across five "everyday life" verticals: Education, Health and Fitness, Boutique Wellness, Field Services and Personal Services

In the technology team, we have more than 450 colleagues working in offices and remotely around the world, building the first global platform to integrate software, payments and Commerce Accelerating Technologies to help business succeed.

Job Description

• Be responsible for guiding one or more scrum teams across Xplor Field Edge vertical.
• Facilitate daily stand-ups and other Agile events to ensure that they are well-organized, time-boxed and productive.
• Act as a servant-leader - interacting with our scrum teams with empathy and openness.
• Act as the team expert in efficiency and pragmatism.
• Challenge the teams and the organization to work as effectively as possible.
• Champion efforts to improve on the quality, velocity, value to the business within the context of the teams.
• Be responsible for championing Agile practices across Xplor Field Edge and the wider Personal Services team.
• Possess global leadership and dealing with different cultures.
• Work with the Developers, QA & Product Owners across the globe to organize the Agile process.
• Strong expertise with JIRA/Azure Boards, Confluence/Notion
• Focus on developing Agile Fundamentals skills within the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Facilitate Scrum events using Agile practices, tools and processes and create consistency of delivery practices across the teams and to maximize productivity.
• Ensure that the sprint board is properly updated during the daily stand-ups, and at the end of the sprint, that every user story is completed as per the definition of done.
• Serve as the primary interface to the teams and manage communication between teams.
• Create the scrum rules and then coach the team to follow Agile principles and practices.
• Shield the teams from disruptive external influences.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years’ experience as a Scrum Master.
• Computer Science or similar degree or have an equivalent body of knowledge.
• Demonstrable experience in increasing the Agile maturity level of teams.
• Comprehensive knowledge of SaaS solutions and Software Development Lifecycle.
• Experience previously working with a global team would be beneficial.
• Understanding of the global personal services industry, with focus on software would be beneficial.
• Proven results in process optimization
• Exposure and diverse experience with different types of technical environments and software.
• Experience in business analysis techniques, processes, and methodologies.
• Experience in implementing Agile best practices and encouraging team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Highly organized and detail oriented. Able to think ahead, develop forward looking strategy and effectively communicating vision to diverse teams in a way that engages and inspires.
• Ability to identify and escalate issues proactively.
• Ability to multi-task against competing tasks, prioritize, and manage time effectively.
• Show awareness of own strengths and areas for growth and develop and apply new skills.
• You’re a true team player who knows that we all have to sometimes roll up our sleeves.
• You align with our four core values and you’re simply a good human.

Additional Information

Our four core values - Make life simple, Build for people, Move with purpose and Create lasting communities - are key to who we are and guide us from how we hire to how we recognize our team members.

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards (LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed, etc) only. Please don't send your application via email. They will not be forwarded.

More about us

We're the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments, and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing ‘everyday life’ verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time.

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/careers.

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/recruitment-faqs.

Please note that we do not exclusively rely on artificial intelligence (AI) when making hiring, promotion or any other employment decisions. We don’t have any AI tools in place that are capable of making these kinds of hiring decisions for us.

Xplor is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company. We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

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