Project Manager/Scrum Master

The Group: The Products group is the home of manufacturing and innovation at Morningstar. The individuals in this group transform our high-quality data, independent research, and technological expertise into well-designed products that delight our clients. The group’s product management, product development, and service teams collaborate with our Client Solutions group to help provide clients with relevant products and bundled solutions.

The Role: As a Scrum Master you will ensure comfortable functioning in a dynamic and global environment. You will work closely with the product owners and the different technology and business leads across Morningstar to pursue/implement cross team technical projects. You will be very well versed with Scrum agile methodologies and various Scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, daily stand ups and sprint reviews. You will be a top performer who is prepared to think critically throughout the project management cycle, teach others the fundamentals of project management, and continuously seek improvements and efficiencies wherever possible during the data collection process. This position is based in our Mumbai office

Responsibilities:

+ Conceptualize, define, and manage projects from end-to-end, working closely with the development and business teams.

+ Participate in estimations with tech and business teams and draft it using standard templates

+ Communicate and track the project progress to cross-functional teams, ensuring its overall success.

+ Ensure progress of multiple projects against schedule, within budget and to high quality standards.

+ Define, manage, and improve the development process.

+ Mentor/educate team members and peers in project management methods and best practices.

+ Manage and drive change where needed to core operational processes, dynamically reacting to evolving client needs and competing priorities.

+ Manage each major and minor platform release worldwide, then collect and share valuable lessons learned.

+ Help global teams to juggle schedules and resources.

+ Effectively communicate objectives and updates to all key stakeholders.

Requirements:
+ Overall experience of around 5-7 years out of which 3-5 years in leading teams with minimum of five years in large scale project management set in an agile framework.

+ Minimum 3 years of hands on experience of working in Scrum methodology as a Scrum Master

+ Demonstrated experience managing software releases from development thru to and post deployment to production

+ Experience in cloud computing and Open source will be a plus

+ Should have experience of planning, executing and monitoring a sprint of minimum two weeks

+ Should be aware of agile planning techniques like poker planning

+ Hands on in reporting the fortnightly, monthly project status to the stakeholders

+ Self-starter, comfortable with implementing and executing Agile development processes and accepting responsibility for seeing projects through to completion.

+ Should be a strong team player capable of building trust within the squad

+ Should be well versed in the art of stakeholder management

+ Should be an expert with reporting various metrics such as sprint velocity, burndown charts and interpret it to the team to support continuous growth mindset.

+ Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, and management skills

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.

If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.

Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.