Technical Scrum Master

Overview

Agile Delivery & Technical Coordination

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Drive technical teams through the complete delivery lifecycle from POC to production.
• Maintain backlog health, ensuring story readiness, prioritization, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Track timelines, milestones, budgets, and RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies).
• Identify and escalate blockers while facilitating timely decisions.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across engineering, AI, data, and design functions.
• Support pre-sales AI and data operations activities.

Stakeholder Management

• Prepare concise weekly status reports, burn-up/down charts, and risk mitigation plans.
• Coordinate demonstrations, UAT cycles, sign-offs, and action tracking.
• Align scope and manage changes across stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively with technical and business teams.

Quality & Governance

• Ensure adherence to Definition of Ready (DoR), Definition of Done (DoD), test plans, and release checklists.
• Support compliance with security, privacy, and data governance requirements.
• Promote AI and data delivery standards, templates, and documentation practices.

Commercial & Resource Management

• Assist with Statements of Work (SOW), estimates, and invoicing support.
• Monitor resource utilization and team capacity.
• Support internal coordination and delivery planning.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, MBA, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of experience as a Scrum Master, Project Coordinator, PMO Analyst, or Junior Project Manager.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Notion, or similar collaboration tools.
• Ability to create dashboards and KPIs using Power BI or equivalent tools.
• Strong understanding of Agile and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Experience translating business requirements into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to drive multiple technical teams with minimal supervision.
• Good understanding of technology infrastructure, AI concepts, cloud platforms, APIs, integrations, and data ecosystems.
• Technical awareness is required; however, hands-on development expertise is not necessary.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering end-to-end implementations within government entities or the public sector.
• Experience leading large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
• Understanding of integrations, APIs, data platforms, and enterprise architecture.
• Experience supporting AI and data-driven programs.
• Arabic and English bilingual proficiency is highly desirable.
• Professional certifications such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PMP, PRINCE2, or AgilePM are advantageous.

Future Growth Opportunity

Work Arrangement

• Immediate availability preferred.
• Initial contract duration of 9 months.
• Daily onsite presence in Abu Dhabi is mandatory.
• Government background checks and security clearance processes will be initiated promptly.