Job Title: Scrum Master/Delivery Manager
Location: Bengaluru (Hybrid- 2 days WFO minimum)
About The Role
We are seeking a dynamic Scrum Master/Delivery Manager who is committed to empowering scrum teams to deliver real value to customers. This is not simply a scrum master role, but a hybrid role that combines agile facilitation with strategic delivery oversight, making it ideal for candidates who thrive in fast-paced environments and can balance team coaching with stakeholder management. You will serve as the connective tissue between product, design, and engineering ensuring teams are successfully shipping software and solving the right problems. You are a seasoned scrum master who has a hand in delivery management responsibilities. You will create the conditions for high-performing, mission-driven teams where the idea of outcome over output, and an attitude of continuous learning are privileged. You will be supporting 2-3 scrum teams who are working across the entire Accuris business portfolio.
Scrum Master Responsibilities
- Coach and empower three scrum teams, ensuring Agile practices are seamlessly implemented from project conception to delivery
- Facilitate all scrum ceremonies, including daily stand ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint demos, and sprint retrospectives for three teams
- Collect and monitor team performance data to foster learning and team improvements, as well as use these data to drive decisions, improve delivery processes, and communicate outcomes
- Own and resolve team blockers
- Report on sprints that are in-progress to technical leads and product stakeholders
- Collaborate with scrum teams to ensure prioritized work is groomed, planned, and executed appropriately
- Work with other scrum masters, release train engineering, and product stakeholders to ensure alignment on dependencies
- Facilitate and/or participate in ART events such as program increment planning
- Facilitate communication and collaboration between development, QA, product, and other relevant teams throughout the release lifecycle
Delivery Manager Responsibilities
- Understand and be accountable to delivery roadmaps (on the levels of the program increment and fiscal year) and ensure alignment with product and business priorities.
- Track and manage delivery milestones, dependencies, and risks across multiple teams
- Ensure timely and quality delivery of features, enhancements, and defects
- Provide regular updates on delivery progress, risks, and mitigation plans
- Align expectations between teams and stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of goals and timelines
- Identify and address delivery bottlenecks, resource constraints, and skill gaps, and seek solutions to these problems
- Ensure transparency through dashboards, reports, and visual management tools
- Lead initiatives to improve delivery processes, tools, and practices
- Help teams identify and remove impediments, improve flow, and continuously optimize their processes using Agile principles
- Provides regular updates on release progress to stakeholders, including development teams, operations teams, and management
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of Scrum Master experience
- Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience supporting Agile development teams at an enterprise organization
- Robust track record for supporting scrum teams to build and release new products from conception to production
- Demonstrated in-depth understanding of the Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and release management processes
- Experience supporting scrum teams in working towards delivery plans
- Experience in delivery management: understanding whether delivery plans are tracking against the velocity and progress of teams, experience identifying risk to deliveries and finding mitigation solutions
- Understanding of the release process
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and collaborative environment with aptitude to learn and make an impact quickly
- Ability to foster change, motivate others, and manage complex and diverse projects
- Ability to listen to multiple points of view and synthesize against goals for recommendations
- Ability to communicate with all levels of management and internal partners
- Experience working with Agile development tracking tools
- Agile scrum certified (Certified Scrum Master-CSM), or equivalent, preferred
About us: Accuris, a company long-known for accelerating innovation in engineering workflows and supporting the vibrancy of the engineering community, launched in May 2023 as a standalone company. Accuris was formerly known as S&P Global's Engineering Solutions division. The Company is valued for its standards content and workflow solutions like Engineering Workbench, Goldfire, Haystack and Parts Management Solutions.
About Company Statement:
Accuris delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world's leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. We think differently, combining the knowledge and resources of an established company with the unapologetic boldness of a startup. https://accuristech.com/
Our mission: Build an evolvable knowledge and data platform that enables STEM professionals to unlock and deliver innovation to the world's most complex problems.
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