Analytics Scrum Master - Assistant Director

EY; Ernakulam; Remote; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

EY Analytics Scrum Master – Assistant Director in India leads Agile ceremonies and sprint planning for a cross-functional team including Data Analysts, Data Scientists, and Data Engineers. The role focuses on removing blockers, optimizing sprint delivery, and coaching teammates to improve Agile practices across projects.

The position collaborates with Product Owners and Translators to ensure strategic impact and timely delivery, driving continuous improvement and robust workflow reporting across

Qualifications

• A strong track record of owning, leading or managing complex projects or deliverables.
• Experience in identifying and proactively acting on opportunities for improvement.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Agile training and support to help team members follow Agile practices.
• Develop and maintain workflow tracking reports to provide insights into planning, estimated vs actual efforts, velocity of delivered tickets and blockers.
• Guide, consolidate and align long-term planning with current realities and goals and build this into presentable roadmaps.
• Set up and manage daily stand ups, planning sessions and sprint ceremonies, proactively identifying blockers and taking action to unblock issues.
• Provide holistic visibility across the team to connect and solve day-to-day issues faster.
• Maintain and report against long-term roadmaps for key projects.

Skills

AGILE practices

Scrum master

Sprint ceremonies

Training

Stakeholder management

Team coaching

Job description

Analytics Scrum Master - Assistant Director

Other locations: Anywhere in Country

Date: Oct 30, 2026

Requisition ID: 1752130

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Analytics Scrum Master – Assistant Director

The opportunity

Global Analytics is a progressive, forward-thinking, cross-functional team of approximately 25 individuals, positioned at the intersection of key decision-making processes and diverse insight use cases across the firm. Our culture is built on openness and collaboration, fostering an environment where every team member is empowered to reach their full potential and contribute to meaningful outcomes.

You will be the scrum master for the overall team, instilling and optimizing AGILE best practices, ceremonies, enabling optimal sprint management through technology and training, and continuously working across the whole team (and potentially other teams within the wider Reporting and Data Analytics function) to identify and resolve blockers and opportunities for efficiency.

You will work alongside Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Product Owners, and Translators to ensure the team is enabled to the greatest possible extent to meet its objectives

Your key responsibilities

You will support and collaborate closely with the Global Analytics leadership and team members to ensure our sprint planning, workflow tracking, user story best practices and communication across the team is best in class in order for the team to deliver strategic impact globally

This will involve key responsibilities such as:

• Delivering training and support to help team members follow and get the most from AGILE practices
• Develop and maintain workflow tracking reports that provide insights into the effectiveness of our planning, estimated vs actual efforts, velocity of delivered tickets and where attention is needed within the team
• Guide, consolidate and work with team member to ensure long term planning documentation is aligned with current realities and goals and build this into a presentable formal visible for the team
• Setup and manage daily stand ups, planning sessions and sprint ceremonies, proactively identifying blockers and supporting to take action to make sure relevant team members / leaders are informed and any other action needed to help unblock issues for the team
• Make you have the holistic visibility you have across the whole team each day to act as a connecter to help solve day to day issues sooner and more effectively
• Maintain and report against long term roadmaps for each of the key projects within the team

You will coach junior colleagues to enable them to develop their skills and capabilities. This may include managing of workload, quality assessment and evaluation, skill transfer and supervision, deliverable expectations and timeframes across multiple projects.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A strong track record of owning, leading or managing complex projects or deliverables
• Experience in identifying and proactively acting on opportunities for improvement