AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
AHEAD is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to enable multiple Agile teams within Enterprise Engineering. This role combines delivery leadership, facilitation, coaching, and continuous improvement to help cross-functional teams deliver valuable, high-quality technology solutions predictably.
The Senior Scrum Master will partner closely with product owners, engineering leaders, developers, quality engineers, and business stakeholders. They will foster team ownership, remove delivery barriers, improve cross-team coordination, and use data to strengthen execution. This is an individual-contributor role requiring influence across technical and business teams.
Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other Agile working sessions across multiple teams.
Coach teams in Agile principles, Scrum practices, estimation, capacity planning, definition of ready, and definition of done.
Identify, track, and remove impediments that affect delivery, escalating systemic issues when necessary.
Coordinate dependencies, risks, releases, and delivery commitments across Enterprise Engineering teams.
Use delivery metrics—including velocity trends, cycle time, throughput, predictability, and work-in-progress—to identify improvement opportunities.
Communicate delivery health, risks, dependencies, and actionable insights to stakeholders and leadership.
Foster transparency, psychological safety, constructive conflict resolution, and healthy team dynamics.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Demonstrated experience supporting multiple cross-functional software, platform, SaaS, automation, or enterprise application teams.
Strong knowledge of Agile principles, Scrum, Kanban, software delivery lifecycles, and continuous-improvement practices.
Proven facilitation, coaching, mentoring, conflict-resolution, and problem-solving capabilities.
Certified ScrumMaster, Professional Scrum Master, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, or comparable certification.
Familiarity with DevOps, release management, CI/CD, quality automation, and modern engineering practices.
Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
India Employment Benefits include:
Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents
Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy
Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance
Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling
Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being
Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations
Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
