Scrum Master - Data

DESCRIPTION

The Scrum Master - Data acts as a servant leader and coach to cross-functional agile teams, enabling the effective adoption and execution of Agile practices to deliver business value. This role supports the team in applying Agile principles and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe while driving agile maturity, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence—particularly in data analytics and visualization domains.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a coach and mentor to the Agile team, fostering a collaborative, respectful, and transparent environment.
• Guide the team in implementing Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and help reduce the gap between Agile theory and practice.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and reviews.
• Provide training and coaching on Agile methodologies and best practices, promoting a lean-agile mindset across teams.
• Remove impediments and protect the team from external distractions to ensure steady progress.
• Support Product Owners in backlog refinement, prioritization, and definition of ready/done.
• Establish and track agile metrics (burn-down/up charts, velocity, throughput) to monitor team performance and value delivery.
• Lead efforts to unify and enhance Jira usage, including dashboards and metrics for workflow transparency.
• Contribute subject matter expertise on team structures for optimal agile workflows.
• Ensure alignment with business goals and foster relationships through Business Relationship Management practices.
• Promote continuous delivery principles and enable DevOps culture for on-demand releases.

• Lean Agile and SAFe Mindset: Champions agile manifesto principles and SAFe practices.
• Agile Systems Thinking: Applies holistic systems thinking to support scalable and sustainable delivery.
• Planning and Managing Ceremonies: Leads cadence-based Agile ceremonies to maintain team rhythm and productivity.
• Release Planning: Coordinates and manages release activities using roadmap and resource alignment.
• Business Insight: Applies knowledge of market and business context to guide decisions and delivery.
• DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pipeline: Supports implementation of automation and release-on-demand capabilities.
• Building High Performance Teams: Applies lean-agile principles to foster empowered, self-organizing teams.
• Manages Conflict & Values Differences: Facilitates constructive conflict resolution and promotes inclusion.
• Communicates Effectively: Delivers clear, adaptive communication across stakeholders and teams.
• Global Perspective: Considers international and cross-functional implications in decision-making.

• Relevant work experience of 6-8 years is required.
• Prior experience in Data,implementation of Data warehouses,analytical layer,ETL etc.
• Proven experience working in a software development organization and Agile environment as a Scrum Master.
• Demonstrated expertise in Lean methodologies and Agile practices with measurable impact.
• Experience managing or driving data analytics and visualization projects.
• Strong preference for familiarity with Snowflake and Microsoft Data Stack.
• Prior experience working with Agile management tools such as Jira is required, including creating dashboards and performance metrics.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related field (or equivalent industry experience).
• Agile certifications such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM) , Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) are strongly preferred.
• This role may require licensing or certification to ensure compliance with applicable export control regulations.
• Data platform certification - Snowflake,Informatica would be preferred.