Scrum Master

Job Location Abu Dhabi (Work From Office)

Job Type Contract

Job Description

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions.
• Support the Product Owner in backlog management, prioritization, and delivery planning.
• Remove delivery impediments and proactively manage risks, issues, and dependencies impacting the squad.
• Coordinate activities across integration, core banking, cloud, infrastructure, security, testing, and vendor teams.
• Track sprint progress, velocity, delivery milestones, and key Agile metrics.
• Promote Agile best practices and drive continuous improvement within the squad.
• Ensure timely escalation of blockers, resource constraints, and cross-team dependencies.
• Support release planning, SIT, UAT, production deployment, and hypercare activities.
• Prepare and present delivery status updates to programme leadership and governance forums.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing team culture focused on delivery excellence.

• 8+ years of experience in technology project delivery, Agile programs, or digital transformation initiatives.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master leading Agile squads.
• Experience in banking, core banking transformation, integration, middleware, or digital platform delivery.
• Good understanding of Core Banking platforms, preferably Oracle FLEXCUBE.
• Familiarity with API-led integration, microservices, event-driven architecture, cloud platforms, and enterprise integration technologies.
• Experience using Agile delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure Dev Ops, or equivalent.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, conflict resolution, and communication skills.
• Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent) preferred.

• Agile methodologies
• Core Banking platforms
• Scrum Master