Lead end-to-end agile delivery for Data & Analytics initiatives: facilitate ceremonies (PI/iteration planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives), manage dependencies/risks, partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to prioritize backlog, track delivery metrics, and ensure adherence to agile practices and organizational standards while collaborating across data, engineering, and business teams.
Description and Requirements
GG10.2 Role Value Proposition Scrum lead plays a critical role in driving end-to-end agile delivery within the data and analytics life cycle and significantly contributes to production grade data and analytics solutions. The role requires one to demonstrate agile delivery expertise, stakeholder management, and ability to align business priortities with execution. It is an individual contributor role, expected to independently function Experience 5-8+ years of relevant experience Education Bachelors degree or equivalent educational qualification. Project Management/Agile scrum certifications Responsibilities • Facilitate Agile ceremonies including PI & iteration planning, daily stand-ups, ART sync, Demos, retrospectives, and iteration reviews.• Drive alignment across teams, ensuring dependencies, risks and blockers are identified and resolved• Partner with Product Owners & key stakeholders to maintain and prioritize the backlog• Track and report key delivery metrics (velocity, burndown, throughput)• Ensure adherence to Agile pricinples and organizational standards• Collaborate with multiple partners from Business, Technology, Operations and D&A capabilities (Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Modeling, Data Architecture, Data science, DevOps, BI & insights) • Independently lead agile delivery, planning estimation and exection
Technical Skills • Understanding of the Data & Analytics lifecycle and Agile delivery models.• Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).• Agile tools such as Azure DevOps.• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.• Problem-solving, communucaiton, negotiation, confict resolution skills• Partner, Stakeholder engagement experience Good To have • Exposure to Gen AI technology and tools
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
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GG10.2 Role Value Proposition Scrum lead plays a critical role in driving end-to-end agile delivery within the data and analytics life cycle and significantly contributes to production grade data and analytics solutions. The role requires one to demonstrate agile delivery expertise, stakeholder management, and ability to align business priortities with execution. It is an individual contributor role, expected to independently function Experience 5-8+ years of relevant experience Education Bachelors degree or equivalent educational qualification. Project Management/Agile scrum certifications Responsibilities • Facilitate Agile ceremonies including PI & iteration planning, daily stand-ups, ART sync, Demos, retrospectives, and iteration reviews.• Drive alignment across teams, ensuring dependencies, risks and blockers are identified and resolved• Partner with Product Owners & key stakeholders to maintain and prioritize the backlog• Track and report key delivery metrics (velocity, burndown, throughput)• Ensure adherence to Agile pricinples and organizational standards• Collaborate with multiple partners from Business, Technology, Operations and D&A capabilities (Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Modeling, Data Architecture, Data science, DevOps, BI & insights) • Independently lead agile delivery, planning estimation and exection
Technical Skills • Understanding of the Data & Analytics lifecycle and Agile delivery models.• Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).• Agile tools such as Azure DevOps.• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.• Problem-solving, communucaiton, negotiation, confict resolution skills• Partner, Stakeholder engagement experience Good To have • Exposure to Gen AI technology and tools
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
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MetLife Hyderabad, Telangana, IND Office
MetLife Hyderabad, IN Office
11th, 12th & 13th Floor, Prestige Sky Tech, Poppalagunda Village, Gandipet Mandal, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, 500032
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