Your opportunity

Schwab Description

​​At Charles Schwab, our purpose is simple: we champion client’s goals with passion and integrity. Guided by honesty, mutual respect and commitment to doing what’s right, we bring innovation, education, and service together to help shape financial futures. Our people are the foundation of our success – they approach their work with curiosity and collaboration, coming together to create solutions that make a meaningful impact for clients and communities. As we expand into India, we are bringing this same culture of inclusion, learning, and opportunity to new talent. Joining us means becoming part of a global team where your work matters and your future can take shape.​ 

​Schwab India​ Description

Our Hyderabad location is central to Schwab’s growth, bringing together talented people and technology to drive innovation, scale and efficiency. Here, you will work alongside teams who create solutions that support millions of clients every day. The work you do is more than daily operations – it’s a chance to experiment, learn, and build within a values-driven, supportive environment. This is a unique opportunity to be part of our early growth phase and shape something new, backed by the stability and strength of a Fortune 500 company. Your impact begins on day one, and your contributions will help define our future in the region​

What you have

Role Description

We are looking for a Scrum Master who is passionate about agile delivery in the age of AI to join our Move Money transformation development team. This is an opportunity to work on an innovative money movement platform while building reliable, scalable, and advanced solutions to help our clients take ownership of their financial futures. The Scrum Master will provide effective collaboration, coordination, facilitation, leadership, and coaching skills supporting the agile development process and delivery of our applications.  As an agile expert, the Scrum Master will be responsible for enforcing the agile tenants as interpreted by our team, removing impediments, and promoting empowerment. The Scrum Master position is highly responsible and accountable and will challenge the teams and strive to improve agile best practices. This position requires technical understanding of software development and technology and experience with complex project coordination.

Key Responsibilities

​​Act as a Scrum Master for 1-2 Agile teams simultaneously.  
Provide leadership, direction and coaching to the team by encouraging them to adopt and mature good Scrum processes according to the Scrum Guide.  
Create an environment whereby the team is motivated, self-organizing and self-sufficient.  
Organize and facilitate effective Scrum meetings: backlog grooming, Sprint planning, daily Scrum, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective.  
Encourage your teams to routinely inspect and adapt.  
Assist the team in establishing a consistent and predictable team level cadence (predictable velocity)  
Identify and facilitate the removal of team impediments and escalate as appropriate.  
Work with and coach Product Owners to develop, manage, and continuously groom the team’s product backlog.  
In partnership with the Product Owner, track and communicate to Stakeholders information such as team velocity, Sprint/release progress, impediments, team successes, etc.  
In coordination with Project Managers, facilitate cross-team coordination and collaboration when projects require it.  
Assist Product Owners and Project Managers with planning and grooming activities.  
Be a servant leader where you receive as much satisfaction from facilitating others’ success as your own.  
Foster an environment where creativity and empowerment can flourish.  
Improve the team’s engineering practices and tools as needed to help them succeed. ​ 

Required Qualification-

Servant Leadership – Able to garner respect from your teams, lead and demonstrate value-add principles, and willing and able to get your hands dirty to get the job done.  
Communicative and social skills – Able to communicate well with your Teams.  
Working experience with Schwab systems and processes  
Enthusiasm and high-energy.  
Continual improvement - Constantly learning new tools and techniques to grow your craft, yourself, and your Teams.  
Attitude of transparency – Desire and ability to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow trust between the business and development.  
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field, or related experience.  
Fully educated and conversant on the Scrum process according to the Scrum Guide.  
A thorough understanding and appreciation for Agile values and principles.  
Thorough understanding of:  
Backlog grooming and relative estimating.  
Release planning.  
Sprint planning  
Scrum metrics such as Sprint burndown, release burnup, & velocity, to name a few  
Sprint review best practices and techniques  
A variety of retrospective techniques  
Prior experience as a Scrum Master.  
5+ years of experience in a software development environment preferably involving cross-team dependencies.  
5+ years of experience owning and managing customer expectations, project schedules, status and reporting and change management.  
Have led teams in a large, complex enterprise environment where successful projects potentially involve more than 1 Scrum team.  
Ability to apply a wide variety of patterns and techniques to enable the team to achieve success.  
Knowledge of project management fundamentals.  
Conflict resolution:  Able to facilitate discussion of issues and different approaches and alternatives and effectively resolve issues in a timely manner. Facilitate:  Able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team.  
Assertive:  Able to ensure Agile and Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, be a voice of reason and authority, and make the tough calls.  
Situationally aware:  Be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them as appropriate.  
Attitude of empowerment:  Able to lead a team to self-organization.  
Strong grasp of software development and technology.

Preferred Qualification

​​Scrum Master certification.  
Experience with SAFe Agile frameworks.  
DevOps experience: continuous integration, continuous build, continuous delivery tools and techniques.  
ATDD, BDD, TDD, and pair programming, and other eXtreme Programming (XP) practices.  
Prior experience using Jira.  
Experience working in a highly regulated environment.  
Experience working in a financial services organization.  
Previous Schwab experience.​