Scrum Master

About the role

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to lead one or more Agile project teams delivering IT applications for global customers. The role operates in a distributed environment and requires strong servant‑leadership to enable teams to achieve their full capacity.

Key responsibilities

• Guide Scrum teams in Agile practices, ensuring transparency and rigor in artefact tracking.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand‑ups, sprint demos and retrospectives within a scaled Agile (SAFe) framework.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to create user stories, acceptance criteria, product and defect backlogs, release plans and prioritisation.
• Support Business Analysts in gathering functional and cross‑functional requirements.
• Monitor team velocity, throughput and identify risks, impediments or dependencies that could block progress.
• Coach teams on backlog state improvement and predictability enhancements.

Required profile

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master in Agile environments.
• Strong understanding of Agile roles, ceremonies and artefacts.
• SAFe certification and a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) credential.
• Ability to train and coach teams on ADO, Scrum, Scrumban, Kanban and SAFe practices.

Required skills

• Agile methodology
• Scrum framework
• SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
• Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Scrumban
• Kanban