Technical Lead- DCOM Scrum Master

About the Company

Embitel Technologies is a Volkswagen AG (VW) Group Company. VW is a German multinational automotive manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. VW is one of the world’s largest automaker by sales. VW sold 10.9 million vehicles in 2019. The group comprises of 12 brands from seven European Countries: Volkswagen, Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche, Bugatti, Bentley, Ducati (motorcycles), Skoda, SEAT, Scania, MAN and Volkswagen commercial vehicles.

About CARIAD (Car, I Am Digital)

The automotive industry is in disruption. As a company, CARIAD is playing a part in multiple large trends at the same time: electrification, automation, and digitalization. The new name builds on changing customer needs. Automotive customers are demanding more comfort, more safety, more sustainability, and more connectivity. With its software platforms and digital features, CARIAD is developing solutions and products that will turn the car into a smart companion to accompany customers into the future with continuous updates and new digital features, even years later. The new company name reflects this zeitgeist: ‘Car, I Am Digital’. The brand profile can be found on its new website https://cariad.technology.

Currently, around 4,000 employees are working at CARIAD on the digital transformation of the car. CARIAD is working intensively on the software and technology platform for Premium Platform Electric (PPE). The first vehicles based on PPE will be the electric Porsche Macan and Audi Q6 e-tron. At the core of CARIAD is the development of the unified and scalable software and technology platform E³ 2.0 for all Group brands. E³ stands for ‘end to end electronics architecture’. The new software and technology platform is built from scratch and will be used first at the end of 2024 in Artemis, the lighthouse project of Audi. As of 2026, E³ 2.0 is due to be scaled by the Volkswagen brand with Trinity in the volume segment.

About our Group

CARIAD COE (Centre of Excellence) is setup in Bangalore, India working exclusively with CARIAD and associated VW groups with the focus on development of ‘VW.OS”. The areas of work involve development of platform components such as firmware, boot loaders, AUTOSAR, Linux/QNX BSP, Service oriented architecture-based middleware components.

Job Description:

Job Title: Scrum Master

Experience: 5-9 years (Scrum Master / Agile coach)

Job Overview:

• Summary: Servant leader who enables high-performing Agile teams by coaching Scrum practices, removing impediments, and fostering continuous improvement. Works closely with Product Owners and stakeholders to align scope, capacity, and delivery while promoting transparency through tooling and metrics.
• Context: Hands-on Scrum Master for product engineering environments, familiar with SAFe and enterprise-scale Agile.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Ceremonies: Plan, prepare, and run Scrum events (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives).
• Capacity & Planning: Align product requirements with team affordability using velocity, capacity planning, and budget awareness.
• Remove Impediments: Proactively identify and eliminate blockers to enable continuous flow and high throughput.
• KPI Tracking: Measure team KPIs (velocity, cycle time, predictability, quality) and drive improvement actions.
• Tooling & Transparency: Maintain and improve transparency of team progress using Jira, Confluence, and GitHub.
• Goal Focus: Encourage clear sprint and incremental goals; help the team formulate and own acceptance criteria.
• Story Tracking: Assist in tracking user story implementation and acceptance; coordinate with QA and DevOps for environments and releases.
• Cross-functionality: Ensure the team is cross-functional and promotes knowledge-sharing across domains.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Serve as liaison between the team, Product Owner, and stakeholders; support backlog grooming and prioritization.
• Continuous Improvement: Coach the team on Agile best practices, promote a learning mindset, and run improvement experiments.

Required Skills:

• Agile Experience: 3-5 years in Scrum Master/Agile facilitator roles with practical experience in Scrum and Agile transformations.
• SAFe Knowledge: Working knowledge of the SAFe framework and experience in scaling Agile across teams.
• Tools: Hands-on with Jira, Confluence, and GitHub (or equivalent ALM tools).
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written English; strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Analytical & Problem Solving: Ability to analyze team metrics and root causes, propose actionable improvements.
• Time & Work Management: Strong time management, prioritization, and result-oriented delivery focus.
• Servant Leadership: Demonstrated servant-leader mindset-coaching, mentoring, enabling teams.
• Collaboration: Teamwork mentality and experience working with cross-functional IT teams (developers, QA, DevOps).
• Self-Organization: Self-motivated and organized with a drive to learn and teach effectively.
• Domain: Prior experience in software development environments.

Nice-to-Have:

• Certifications: PSM, CSM, SAFe Agilist or equivalent Agile certifications.
• Enterprise Experience: Experience with large-scale Agile/SAFe implementations and multi-team PI planning.
• Metrics & Observability: Familiarity with tools for measuring flow/predictability and dashboards (e.g., Jira Insights, Azure DevOps analytics).
• DevOps Awareness: Understanding of CI/CD practices and DevOps collaboration.
• Remote/Distributed Teams: Experience facilitating distributed teams and hybrid work models.
• Additional Tools: Experience with other collaboration and tracking tools or automation around Agile workflows.

Working with Embitel

• Freedom to challenge norms, make mistakes, learn and grow
• There is no ‘I’ in word ‘Team’ and no hierarchy at Embitel
• Employees of Embitel are partners of our excellence and growth. And they are at the core of organization’s Mission and Vision

To explore an exciting & progressive Career development at Embitel India:

• Visit us at: www.embitel.com
• Follow us at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/embitel-technologies-india