Scrum Master

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Job ID R0159579 Date posted 08/01/2025 Location Bengaluru, Karnataka

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Job Description

As a ScrumMaster, you'llbedealingwith more complexsituations and you’llneed to workacrossfunctionalunits, and otherteams, and upperlevels of management.Youcanexpect to work on a wide variety of situationsinvolving more complexscalingfactors and variations. In this role youwillidentifyallies and coordinatewithotherteams to improvedelivery of value to thecustomer.

Responsibilities

• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on consistently improving and problem-solving.
• Works with Scrum Teams as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support with organizational changes.
• Resolve team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile in the organization.
• Solving unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business.
• Offer conceptual and innovative approaches to improve organizational agility.
• Use expert agile knowledge to guide teams to utilize tools and practices for software development.
• Effectively lead the scrum team to achieve higher levels of scrum maturity.
• Guide, coach, and mentor Product Owners and more junior or aspiring Scrum Masters within the organization
• Act as a trusted representative for the team in committees, coordinate with IT colleagues from other teams, and are SPOC for the product owner and release manager or other functions from the business.
• Deliver ongoing training for the team, product owners, developers, and testers to consolidate and support the future development of agile methods in the organization.
  
  

Required

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 4 years of Scrum Master experience leading small-mid-sized agile teams
• Minimum 5 years of IT/SW delivery experience working in agile environment
• Has identifiable impact on results of the team and program or product levels
• Demonstrable experience to apply Scrum principles, practices, and theory of Scrum, Kanban, Agile Development and Integration
• Strong analytical skills to grasp complexities and identify relationships between problems, risks, issues, and solutions; ability to work with a team to reach a consensus
• Solid Team and Organizational coaching experience to realize benefits arising from Agile Principles, self-management, empowerment, incremental deliveries, and inter-team cooperation
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment
• Proven ability to continually build job knowledge & skills
• Strong communication skills
• Written and spoken English language proficiency (C1)
  
  

Preferred

• Has knowledge across several different Agile disciplines
• Industry-recognized Agile and / or DevOps Qualifications
• Preferred University Technical Degree (or equivalent experience in the field)
  
  

Locations

IND - Bengaluru

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

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