Description
We are seeking an agile-focused Technical project manager with a strong data engineering background to lead scrum while guiding a small pod of data engineers. In this role, your primary responsibility is operational excellence—acting as a dedicated Scrum Master to facilitate agile ceremonies, eliminate blockers, protect team capacity, and optimize delivery velocity for our client.
While this is heavily a Scrum Master role, your data background will allow you to serve as a technical sounding board for the engineers. You will champion the agile execution of migrating our legacy big data environment to a modern AWS/Databricks infrastructure, orchestrating the rollout of intelligent AI agents (utilizing Anthropic Claude), and coordinating technical support for our downstream Tableau business intelligence layer.
Responsibilities
Core Responsibilities
- Agile Scrum Master Ownership: Serve as the dedicated Scrum Master for the client’s data engineering team. Own all agile ceremonies—including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming,
and retrospectives—while actively tracking velocity, burn-down metrics, and managing team capacity.
- Delivery Roadmapping & Operational Execution: Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate high-level migration roadmaps and AI initiatives into a well-structured, prioritized product backlog of actionable user stories.
- Engineering Shielding & Blocker Removal: Actively identify and eliminate organizational, infrastructure, or technical dependencies that stall development. Shield the engineers from ad-hoc requests and scope creep to keep the sprint focused.
Qualifications
- Agile Expertise: Proven track record of successfully running scrum frameworks for highly specialized technical teams.
- Data Domain Familiarity: Robust conceptual understanding of big data architectures (Apache Spark, Hadoop, Hive) and cloud platforms (AWS and Databricks). You don't need to write the code, but you must thoroughly un
📌 Technical Project Manager (Chennai)
🏢 EXL
📍 Chennai