Scrum Master - Pune

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master to facilitate Agile delivery, enable high-performing teams, and ensure effective adoption of Scrum and Agile principles.

The Scrum Master will serve as a servant leader, facilitator, coach, and impediment remover, working closely with Product Owners, Engineering teams, Architects, QA, DevOps, business stakeholders, and leadership to ensure predictable and continuous delivery of high-quality products.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience working with Scrum, Agile delivery, stakeholder management, team coaching, metrics, risk management, and cross-functional technology teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the Scrum Master and Agile facilitator for one or more Scrum teams.
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including:
  • Sprint Planning
  • Daily Scrum
  • Sprint Review
  • Sprint Retrospective
  • Backlog Refinement
• Ensure Scrum principles, practices, and Agile values are understood and followed.
• Remove or facilitate resolution of team impediments, blockers, and dependencies.
• Protect the team from unnecessary interruptions and external distractions.
• Coach team members, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile/Scrum practices.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, transparency, collaboration, and accountability.
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure the product backlog is sufficiently refined and prioritized.
• Facilitate effective sprint planning and help teams establish realistic sprint commitments.
• Monitor sprint progress and proactively identify delivery risks.
• Track and communicate dependencies across teams and programs.
• Facilitate resolution of cross-team and organizational impediments.
• Work closely with engineering, QA, DevOps, architecture, security, and product teams.
• Support release planning and coordinate with dependent teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve team velocity, quality, predictability, and delivery flow.
• Facilitate retrospectives and ensure agreed improvement actions are followed through.
• Help teams adopt engineering and quality practices that support sustainable delivery.
• Provide transparent reporting on delivery status, risks, dependencies, and impediments.
• Collaborate with leadership to address organizational impediments impacting Agile teams.
• Support Agile transformation initiatives and organizational change.

Compensation, Benefits and Duration

• Minimum Compensation: USD
• Maximum Compensation: USD
• Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.
• This position is not available for independent contractors
• No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post