Agile Scrum Master

Role Overview

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

• Strong 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.