Role : Senior Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead

Experience : 7+ Years

Location : Bangalore - Manyata Tech park (ORR) - Hybrid

Locals to Bangalore required.

Employment Type : Full-Time

Role Overview :

We are looking for an experienced Senior Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead with 7+ years of experience in Agile/Scrum environments and strong hands-on expertise in Jira, Python and AI/GenAI technologies. The ideal candidate will be responsible for facilitating Agile delivery, removing impediments, improving team productivity and using Python, Jira automation and AI-based solutions to enhance project tracking, reporting, delivery predictability and engineering workflows.

Key Responsibilities :

- Serve as Scrum Master for one or more Agile/Scrum teams.

- Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospectives.

- Remove impediments and proactively resolve delivery risks and dependencies.

- Coach development teams, Product Owners and stakeholders on Agile/Scrum practices.

- Track sprint progress, velocity, capacity, burndown and delivery commitments.

- Identify bottlenecks and continuously improve team productivity.

- Manage cross-team dependencies and coordinate with technical/business stakeholders.

- Promote Agile principles, transparency, collaboration and continuous improvement.

- Support release planning and roadmap execution.

- Prepare and communicate Agile delivery metrics to management.

Jira / Agile Tools :

- Strong hands-on experience with Jira Software and Confluence.

- Configure and manage Jira workflows, boards, dashboards, filters and reports.

- Create Agile dashboards for sprint, release and portfolio-level tracking.

- Implement Jira automation for repetitive project-management activities.

- Develop JQL queries and customized reports.

- Track velocity, burndown/burnup, cycle time, lead time and team capacity.

- Integrate Jira with CI/CD, Git and other engineering tools where required.

Python / Automation :

- Use Python for project and engineering-process automation.

- Develop scripts to extract, transform and analyze Jira/project data.

- Automate Agile reporting, dashboards, notifications and status tracking.

- Build integrations using Jira REST APIs and other enterprise APIs.

- Analyze project metrics using Python libraries such as Pandas and related tools.

- Automate repetitive delivery-management and reporting activities.

AI / GenAI :

- Practical understanding of Generative AI, LLMs and AI-powered productivity tools.

- Identify opportunities to use AI in Agile delivery, project management and software-development workflows.

Use AI tools for :

- Sprint and status-report generation

- Meeting/action-item summarization

- Risk and dependency identification

- Jira ticket analysis

- User-story refinement

- Acceptance-criteria generation

- Defect/incident analysis

- Release and delivery forecasting

- Experience with ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Claude or similar AI tools is desirable.

- Exposure to AI APIs, prompt engineering, RAG or AI automation will be an advantage.

Required Skills :

Must Have :

- 7+ years of overall IT experience

- 4+ years as Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead

- Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies

- Hands-on Jira and Confluence

- Strong JQL and Jira dashboard/reporting skills

- Good Python scripting/automation experience

- Understanding of REST APIs

- Practical exposure to AI/GenAI tools

- Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills

- Experience working with distributed/global Agile teams

Good to Have :

- Jira Administration experience

- Jira REST API / Jira Automation

- Python - Pandas, API integration and data analysis

- Git / GitHub / GitLab

- CI/CD concepts

- Power BI or similar reporting tools

- AI/LLM APIs

- Prompt Engineering

- RAG / AI agents

- Cloud exposure - AWS/Azure/GCP

- SAFe / PMI-ACP / PSM / CSM certification

Candidate Profile :

- The ideal candidate should be a strong Agile practitioner who is also technically hands-on.

- This is not purely a traditional Scrum Master role. Candidates should be comfortable using Jira, Python and AI tools to automate reporting, analyze delivery data and improve Agile processes.

Education : Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline.