**Job Description:** Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers. Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques. 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. **Qualifications:** Responsibilities: Scrum Master: • Facilitate Team DSU’s, Retrospectives, Sprint planning meetings, etc. • Assists Product Owner with product backlog, when needed • Assists with removing Impediments/obstacles • Act as a liaison between the team, stakeholders, and other Scrum Masters to ensure that the team’s efforts are aligned • Pulling impacted Tech Leads, PO’s, TA’s, Business (if/when applicable) together to collaborate and design solution keeping in mind reusability in the future • Coordinate Delivery Sync with all impacted PO’s and Business partners to close out any open questions on business requirements • Coordination of dependencies • Manage and Communicate Risks (Timelines, Impediments, etc.) • Coordinate, Create and Maintain Detailed initiative timeline for all impacted areas. Aligning all to a specific implementation date • Facilitate meetings • Bi-Weekly Readouts and/or Status updates • Reporting/Metrics • Assist with SDLC • Communicate reminders concerning Release Management dates – soft freeze, hard freeze, etc., for all Quarterly releases and off quarter releases. · Strong leadership, time management, and organizational skills · Excellent written and verbal communications skills · Excellent team collaboration skills, including experience in dealing with multiple projects impacting different processes, multi-functional teams, and ability to coordinate across teams in a large matrix organization environment. · Strong relationship building and maintaining skills. Fosters a climate conducive to establishing positive working relationships with clients (internal and external). • Working knowledge of MS Office Suite, JIRA, and JiraAlign • Understanding of change management • Excellent analytical, negotiation and problem solving skills • In-depth Annuity business and/or technical knowledge preferred but not mandatory. Mandatory certification: CSM/PSM/SSM Good to have certification: SAFe SM or SAFe Agilist or SAFe POPM **Location:** This position can be based in any of the following locations: Gurgaon **Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday** Every day, Guardian helps our 29 million customers realize their dreams through a range of insurance and financial products and services. Our Purpose, to inspire well-being, guides our dedication to the colleagues, consumers, and communities we serve. We know that people count, and we go above and beyond to prepare them for the life they want to live, focusing on their overall well-being — mind, body, and wallet. As one of the largest mutual insurance companies, we put our customers first. Behind every bright future is a GuardianTM. Learn more about Guardian at guardianlife.com .