Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Senior Project Manager

Madurai, Tamil Nadu

Job Summary

Role Overview

Experienced Scrum Master responsible for driving Agile delivery, facilitating sprint ceremonies, removing impediments, improving team velocity, and providing transparent reporting of risks, progress, and delivery outcomes across complex enterprise programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Drive sprint cadence and ensure adherence to Agile and Scrum best practices.
• Identify, track, escalate, and help remove delivery blockers and impediments affecting team productivity.
• Monitor sprint velocity, burndown, sprint commitments, and delivery health metrics.
• Provide regular reporting on risks, dependencies, impediments, milestones, and overall delivery progress.
• Partner with Product Owners on backlog refinement, prioritization, and sprint readiness.
• Coach delivery teams on Agile practices, Scrum principles, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate effectively across distributed teams, technical stakeholders, Product Owners, and business stakeholders.
• Support proactive risk and dependency management across teams and workstreams.
• Ensure action items, blockers, and sprint commitments are tracked through closure.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in Scrum and Agile delivery
• Hands-on experience with JIRA and/or Azure DevOps
• Sprint planning and backlog management
• Risk, issue, impediment, and dependency management
• Agile metrics and delivery reporting
• Strong stakeholder communication and coordination
• Leadership, facilitation, and team coaching skills
• Experience working with distributed or cross-functional delivery teams
• Strong documentation and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant Agile/Scrum certification such as CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale or complex technology programs
• Strong stakeholder and cross-team coordination skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and reporting capabilities

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Drive sprint cadence and ensure adherence to Agile and Scrum best practices.
• Identify, track, escalate, and help remove delivery blockers and impediments affecting team productivity.
• Monitor sprint velocity, burndown, sprint commitments, and delivery health metrics.
• Provide regular reporting on risks, dependencies, impediments, milestones, and overall delivery progress.
• Partner with Product Owners on backlog refinement, prioritization, and sprint readiness.
• Coach delivery teams on Agile practices, Scrum principles, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate effectively across distributed teams, technical stakeholders, Product Owners, and business stakeholders.
• Support proactive risk and dependency management across teams and workstreams.
• Ensure action items, blockers, and sprint commitments are tracked through closure.

Skill Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in Scrum and Agile delivery
• Hands-on experience with JIRA and/or Azure DevOps
• Sprint planning and backlog management
• Risk, issue, impediment, and dependency management
• Agile metrics and delivery reporting
• Strong stakeholder communication and coordination
• Leadership, facilitation, and team coaching skills
• Experience working with distributed or cross-functional delivery teams
• Strong documentation and presentation skills

Other Requirements

Role Overview

Experienced Scrum Master responsible for driving Agile delivery, facilitating sprint ceremonies, removing impediments, improving team velocity, and providing transparent reporting of risks, progress, and delivery outcomes across complex enterprise programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Drive sprint cadence and ensure adherence to Agile and Scrum best practices.
• Identify, track, escalate, and help remove delivery blockers and impediments affecting team productivity.
• Monitor sprint velocity, burndown, sprint commitments, and delivery health metrics.
• Provide regular reporting on risks, dependencies, impediments, milestones, and overall delivery progress.
• Partner with Product Owners on backlog refinement, prioritization, and sprint readiness.
• Coach delivery teams on Agile practices, Scrum principles, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate effectively across distributed teams, technical stakeholders, Product Owners, and business stakeholders.
• Support proactive risk and dependency management across teams and workstreams.
• Ensure action items, blockers, and sprint commitments are tracked through closure.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in Scrum and Agile delivery
• Hands-on experience with JIRA and/or Azure DevOps
• Sprint planning and backlog management
• Risk, issue, impediment, and dependency management
• Agile metrics and delivery reporting
• Strong stakeholder communication and coordination
• Leadership, facilitation, and team coaching skills
• Experience working with distributed or cross-functional delivery teams
• Strong documentation and presentation skills

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Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, youll supercharge your potential. Youll find your career. And youll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 230,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending September 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.