Scrum Master

Acuity Analytics; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Analytics in Chennai is hiring multiple Scrum Masters to support a large-scale Global Capital Markets platform modernization program. You will drive Agile ceremonies, manage backlogs with Product Owners, and mentor cross-functional teams across onshore and offshore locations.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of full-time experience with 5-6 years in hands-on Scrum Master roles and strong Capital Markets domain knowledge.

Qualifications

• Total full-time experience: minimum 10 years (including 5-6 years of recent hands-on Scrum Master experience).
• Strong Agile delivery experience with mandatory exposure to Capital Markets.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate key Agile ceremonies across the delivery squads — sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews/showcases and retrospectives.
• Track sprint progress, blockers, dependencies and team capacity, and maintain transparency by radiating clear, timely delivery information.
• Support backlog hygiene and readiness for engineering intake, working closely with the Product Owner to maintain and prioritize the product backlog.
• Identify and remove impediments or guide the team to resolve them by engaging the right people, without coercing, assigning or dictating the work.
• Coach the team and stakeholders on Agile/Scrum practices and values, assessing Scrum maturity and guiding the team to higher levels at a sustainable pace.
• Facilitate discussion, decision-making and conflict resolution, building a trusting, safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame.
• Escalate and communicate delivery risks, and support internal and external communication across onshore and offshore stakeholders.
• Monitor and report on key Agile performance metrics (velocity, burndown, throughput) to the leadership team, while managing multiple workstreams and deadlines.
• Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices, and of Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban and XP, with a solid grasp of iterative and incremental development.
• Good understanding of Agile engineering practices — user stories, continuous integration, ATDD, TDD, continuous and automated testing, and pairing.
• Understanding of Agile metrics and incremental delivery — task and backlog tracking, burndown, velocity and user stories; experience using JIRA is a strong preference.
• Familiarity with common development practices, service-oriented environments and microservices; advanced knowledge of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation and analytical skills, with a strong work ethic, attention to detail and exceptional relationship-management ability.
• Self-motivated, independent and responsible team player, able to work across multiple projects and deadlines and quickly learn new concepts. Preferred qualifications
• Previous experience in Capital Markets or Commercial Banking, ideally supporting platform modernization or transformation programs.
• Experience coaching distributed onshore/offshore squads and improving Scrum maturity within enterprise delivery environments.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile delivery

Capital Markets

JIRA

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

We are hiring multiple Scrum Masters for our Tech team in Chennai to support a large-scale Global Capital Markets platform modernization program. Candidates must have strong Agile delivery experience along with mandatory exposure to Capital Markets or one of its sub-domains, including Derivatives, Futures & Options, FX (Foreign Exchange), Equities, Fixed Income, Trading Platforms, Order Management Systems (OMS), or Market Data Platforms.

Total full-time experience: Minimum 10 years (including 5-6 years of recent hands-on Scrum Master experience)

Notice Period: 0-45 days preferred (Immediate joiners highly preferred)

Key responsibilities:

• Facilitate key Agile ceremonies across the delivery squads — sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews/showcases and retrospectives.
• Track sprint progress, blockers, dependencies and team capacity, and maintain transparency by radiating clear, timely delivery information.
• Support backlog hygiene and readiness for engineering intake, working closely with the Product Owner to maintain and prioritize the product backlog.
• Identify and remove impediments or guide the team to resolve them by engaging the right people, without coercing, assigning or dictating the work.
• Coach the team and stakeholders on Agile/Scrum practices and values, assessing Scrum maturity and guiding the team to higher levels at a sustainable pace.
• Facilitate discussion, decision-making and conflict resolution, building a trusting, safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame.
• Escalate and communicate delivery risks, and support internal and external communication across onshore and offshore stakeholders.
• Monitor and report on key Agile performance metrics (velocity, burndown, throughput) to the leadership team, while managing multiple workstreams and deadlines.
• Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices, and of Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban and XP, with a solid grasp of iterative and incremental development.
• Good understanding of Agile engineering practices — user stories, continuous integration, ATDD, TDD, continuous and automated testing, and pairing.
• Understanding of Agile metrics and incremental delivery — task and backlog tracking, burndown, velocity and user stories; experience using JIRA is a strong preference.
• Familiarity with common development practices, service-oriented environments and microservices; advanced knowledge of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation and analytical skills, with a strong work ethic, attention to detail and exceptional relationship-management ability.
• Self-motivated, independent and responsible team player, able to work across multiple projects and deadlines and quickly learn new concepts. Preferred qualifications
• Previous experience in Capital Markets or Commercial Banking, ideally supporting platform modernization or transformation programs.
• Experience coaching distributed onshore/offshore squads and improving Scrum maturity within enterprise delivery environments.