High Salary : Senior Scrum Master / Project Manager - +8 years of experience - Full remote - contract

For an international project in Chennai, we are urgently looking for a Full Remote Senior Scrum Master / Project Manager with +8 years of experience. The Scrum Master plays a key role within the Agile framework and ensures the implementation of Scrum practices and principles effectively.

We are looking for a motivated contractor. Candidates need to be fluent in English.

Tasks and responsibilities :

• Facilitate SAFe ceremonies for the team (Iteration Planning, Daily Team Sync, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Review, and Retrospective) and coordinate inputs / outputs with ART events (PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt);
• Enable flow by visualizing work, limiting WIP, removing impediments quickly, and optimizing team throughput and predictability;
• Coach the team on SAFe principles, Scrum / Kanban practices, Definition of Ready / Done (DoR / DoD), built‑in quality, and relentless improvement;
• Partner with the Product Owner to maintain a healthy backlog (prioritization, refinement, acceptance criteria, NFRs) and ensure readiness for upcoming iterations and PIs;
• Coordinate dependencies and risks with other teams via Scrum of Scrums and the program board; maintain ROAM‑ed risks and an impediment log;
• Ensure tooling hygiene and reporting in Azure DevOps (or equivalent), including boards, queries, dashboards, and links to design, test, and release artifacts;
• Support compliance with WBG security, audit, and ICFR / SDLC controls by ensuring traceability from features / stories to tests and releases and by capturing approvals where required;
• Assist with Release on Demand preparation : release notes, change records, rollback plans, and stakeholder communications; facilitate post‑release verification and learning;

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