Associate Vice President - Scrum Master (Chennai)

NatWest Group; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group seeks an experienced Scrum Master AVP in Chennai region to drive a culture of continuous improvement and high-performing delivery. You will coach the team to maintain sustainable pace, remove impediments, and collaborate with the product owner to keep the backlog ready for sprints.

The role requires strong Agile knowledge, facilitation skills, and a passion for transparency and empowerment within cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Experience of successful Scrum adoption along with a Scrum Master certification.
• Knowledge of modern development practices and tools; coaching cross-functional teams.
• Background in servant leadership, facilitation, and empowerment for high performance.
• Experience building a culture of transparency within feature teams and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Making sure the Scrum team understands Agile practices and the Scrum framework to deliver working software.
• Transforming the team to self-organisation using Lean thinking and Scrum principles.
• Acting as the process owner and maintaining relationships with stakeholders.
• Creating a great place to work through leadership, coaching and skill development.

Skills

Scrum Master cert

Scrum adoption

Coaching teams

Servant leadership

Facilitation

Transparency culture

Agile practices

Job description

Scrum Master, AVP

Join us as a Scrum Master Were looking for an experienced Scrum Master to drive a culture of continuous improvement Youll make sure that your team lives by the values of Scrum, empowering them to become high performing to increase the productivity, as well as frequency and quality of delivery Hone your project skills as you work with talented people in collaborative and creative environment, with access to the bank's Agile community, experts and events We're offering this role at associate vice president level What you'll do This role will see you coaching and guiding your team to perform at their highest level and at a sustainable pace. Youll remove any impediments to progress, facilitate meetings, protect the team from outside influences or distractions and work with the product owner to make sure that the product backlog is in good shape and ready for the next sprint.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Making sure the Scrum team understands Agile practices, the Scrum framework and values, and that the team uses this framework to deliver working software to satisfy platform customers and react to their needs quickly


• Transforming the Scrum team to become self-organising to reduce management overhead costs, using techniques such as Systems and Lean thinking


• Acting as the process owner for the team, and maintaining relationships with the project's key stakeholders


• Creating a great place to work with a culture of safety and continuous improvement, through great people leadership, coaching, engagement and development of skills

The skills you’ll need We're looking for someone with experience of successful Scrum adoption along with a Scrum Master certification. You'll need knowledge of modern development practices and tools, as well as a background in coaching cross-functional teams into high performing teams. Youll also need knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency, as well as experience of building a culture of transparency within feature teams by empowering individuals and inspiring a collaborative team performance.

We'll look to you to demonstrate:

• Experience of changing organisational, team or department mindsets and structure


• An understanding and experience of applying empirical process control


• Strong knowledge of the Agile manifesto and its principles


• Experience of automated testing frameworks

Hours 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 02/07/2026

Experience Level Executive Level