Owns the Agile delivery cadence for the POD facilitating ceremonies, maintaining JIRA hygiene and removing impediments for a larger, distributed cross-functional team spanning onsite and offshore members.
Experience Profile
7 to 14 + years overall IT delivery experience, including 4+ years as a dedicated Scrum Master / Agile lead facilitating larger or multi-stream teams. An experienced Agile master comfortable coaching a sizeable team is essential.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies — daily standups, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives — across a larger, distributed team.
- Own and maintain JIRA boards, sprint hygiene, and burndown/velocity reporting and dashboards.
- Identify, track and remove impediments; manage dependencies across onsite (US) and offshore (India) members.
- Coach the team on Agile/Scrum best practice and drive continuous improvement.
- Partner with the Business Analyst and Tech Lead on backlog refinement and prioritisation.
- Report sprint health, risks and progress to programme leadership.
Required Skills
- Robust hands-on JIRA / ADO administration and Agile metrics/reporting.
- Proven experience running Scrum for larger or multi-stream teams.
- Excellent facilitation, stakeholder management and impediment resolution.
- Comfortable coordinating across onsite/offshore time zones.
Preferred / Nice-to-have
- CSM / PSM / SAFe Scrum Master certification (uplifts the offering).
- Exposure to insurance / underwriting or other regulated-domain delivery.