Scrum Master

**DESCRIPTION**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Act as a coach and mentor to the Agile team, fostering a collaborative, respectful, and transparent environment.
- Guide the team in implementing Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and help reduce the gap between Agile theory and practice.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and reviews.
- Provide training and coaching on Agile methodologies and best practices, promoting a lean-agile mindset across teams.
- Remove impediments and protect the team from external distractions to ensure steady progress.
- Support Product Owners in backlog refinement, prioritization, and definition of ready/done.
- Establish and track agile metrics (burn-down/up charts, velocity, throughput) to monitor team performance and value delivery.
- Lead efforts to unify and enhance Jira usage, including dashboards and metrics for workflow transparency.
- Ensure alignment with business goals and foster relationships through Business Relationship Management practices.
- Promote continuous delivery principles and enable DevOps culture for on-demand releases.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Skills and Competencies**:

- **Lean Agile and SAFe Mindset**: Champions agile manifesto principles and SAFe practices.
- **Agile Systems Thinking**: Applies holistic systems thinking to support scalable and sustainable delivery.
- **Planning and Managing Ceremonies**: Leads cadence-based Agile ceremonies to maintain team rhythm and productivity.
- **Release Planning**: Coordinates and manages release activities using roadmap and resource alignment.
- **Business Insight**: Applies knowledge of market and business context to guide decisions and delivery.
- **DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pipeline**: Supports implementation of automation and release-on-demand capabilities.
- **Building High Performance Teams**: Applies lean-agile principles to foster empowered, self-organizing teams.
- **Manages Conflict & Values Differences**: Facilitates constructive conflict resolution and promotes inclusion.
- **Communicates Effectively**: Delivers clear, adaptive communication across stakeholders and teams.
- **Global Perspective**: Considers international and cross-functional implications in decision-making.

**Experience**:

- Relevant work experience of 6-8 years is required.
- Prior experience in Data,implementation of Data warehouses,analytical layer,ETL etc.
- Proven experience working in a software development organization and Agile environment as a Scrum Master.
- Demonstrated expertise in Lean methodologies and Agile practices with measurable impact.
- Experience managing or driving data analytics and visualization projects.
- Strong preference for familiarity with Snowflake and Microsoft Data Stack.
- Prior experience working with Agile management tools such as Jira is required, including creating dashboards and performance metrics.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related field (or equivalent industry experience).
- Agile certifications such as **Certified Scrum Master (CSM)**, Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or **SAFe** Scrum Master (SSM) are strongly preferred.
- This role may require licensing or certification to ensure compliance with applicable export control regulations.
- Data platform certification - Snowflake,Informatica would be preferred.

**Job** Systems/Information Technology

**Organization** Cummins Inc.

**Role Category** Hybrid

**Job Type** Exempt - Experienced

**ReqID** 2414180

**Relocation Package** No