Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UST transforms lives through technology by embedding innovation and agility into client solutions. The company is seeking a Technical Scrum Master to lead Agile delivery for technical healthcare data and AI teams. The role facilitates Scrum ceremonies, manages backlogs and dependencies, and drives predictable delivery across data, cloud, application, infrastructure, and machine learning teams.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Scrum Master and Agile delivery leader for one or more technical data/AI teams
- Facilitate effective Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Agile ceremonies
- Partner with Product Owners to maintain a healthy, prioritized, and technically actionable backlog
- Ensure stories have clear acceptance criteria, dependencies, estimates, and appropriate technical detail before sprints
- Drive predictable sprint execution and continuously improve team velocity, quality, and delivery predictability
- Identify and proactively resolve impediments affecting team productivity and delivery
- Track and communicate sprint, release, milestone, dependency, and delivery risks
- Facilitate cross-team coordination where multiple data, application, infrastructure, or ML teams have dependencies
Skills
- Experienced Technical Scrum Master with strong US healthcare domain experience and solid technical knowledge of AWS, data engineering, Databricks, and machine learning data pipelines
- 6+ years of experience in Agile/Scrum delivery with significant support for technical engineering teams
- Proven experience working with data engineering, cloud, analytics, or AI/ML teams
- Strong understanding of Scrum and Agile methodologies
- Experience managing complex technical dependencies across multiple teams
- Strong understanding of AWS and cloud-based technology environments
- Working knowledge of data engineering and data pipeline architectures
- Working knowledge of Databricks, Spark/PySpark, SQL, or equivalent modern data engineering technologies
- Understanding of machine learning data pipelines and ML engineering workflows
- Experience working with technical teams consisting of Data Engineers, ML Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Architects, and technical SMEs
- Strong experience with Jira or equivalent Agile delivery platforms
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to identify, escalate, and drive resolution of technical and organizational impediments
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, and communication skills
- AWS cloud fundamentals and enterprise architecture concepts (S3, IAM, compute, networking, monitoring, security services)
- Understanding of AWS-based application and data-platform dependencies
- Familiarity with cloud environments, deployment processes, and CI/CD
- Modern data engineering architectures and data pipelines
- Batch and streaming data-processing concepts
- Data ingestion, transformation, validation, data quality, orchestration, and downstream consumption
- Data lake/lakehouse architecture
- CI/CD, Git, automated testing, deployment pipelines, environment management, and release processes
- Production support, incident management, root-cause analysis, and operational readiness
- Healthcare fundamentals: clinical data, healthcare claims data, and business processes
- Healthcare-specific data quality, privacy, security, and regulatory considerations (PHI/PII, HIPAA)
- 4+ years of experience working in the US healthcare industry (preferred/required)
- Experience supporting enterprise healthcare data platforms
- Familiarity with Databricks and modern lakehouse architectures
- Familiarity with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg
- Familiarity with AWS data services and cloud security
- Familiarity with healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7, X12/EDI, 835, 837, 834)
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or similar enterprise tools
- Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, or SAFe)
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement for the US role
- Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year
- Full-time, regular employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year, pro-rated for new hires throughout the year
- Full-time, regular employees receive 10 paid holidays
- Full-time, regular employees are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty
- Full-time, regular employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching
- Full-time, regular employees and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Full-time, regular employees receive Company-paid basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits for employees only
- Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits
- Regular employees may participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Regular employees may participate in a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines
- Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year, pro-rated for new hires throughout the year
- Part-time employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching
- Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year, pro-rated for new hires throughout the year
- Full-time temporary employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) program with employer matching
- Full-time temporary employees and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year, pro-rated for new hires throughout the year
- All US employees who work in a state or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws
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