Job Description

Shapes the development and implementation of the One Agile Way of Working so that it can continuously improve. Promotes the culture appropriate to the Agile Way of Working and is the figurehead of the associated behavior. The SM engages people by using clear communication, giving and receiving constructive feedback, understanding and simplifying complex issues, and contributing to the desired culture change.


Scrum Master are experts responsible for directing teams, ensuring that organization goals are attained, implementing and monitoring software development processes, and reporting to senior management. Helping the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done; Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team's progress and ensuring that all scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.


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Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.


Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.


Knowledge and experience on organizing and running Sprint. Ensuring the squad adheres to Sprint cadence.


Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.


Works with Agile Coach and other Scrum Masters to ensure that Dashboards are aligned.


Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.


Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.


Ensure the Azure Boards are up to date. Works with Squad, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.


Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual (BAU) work and to a lesser degree, important department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.


Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, burndown and other Scrum techniques 7-10 years of work experience


Must Have: Azure DevOps, CSM/Scrum certification and working in Agile projects.


Nice to Have: Banking and Financial Services Experience


Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e., Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices.


Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Paired Programming, Automated Testing, Agile Games

About Virtusa

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth -- one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.



Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.



Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.