Scrum Master, Data Context Layer

Job Description

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130-year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Join a team that is passionate about using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making and create custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in the growth, success, and well-being of our people to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging, to managing critical emergencies. Together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview

This role is part of a broader enterprise initiative to establish a Data Context Layer (DCL) — a foundational capability designed to provide consistent, reusable, and scalable context across enterprise data products.

The DCL is intended to address challenges related to data fragmentation, lack of shared semantics, and inconsistent interpretation of data across systems and products. It establishes a unified layer for representing context, relationships, and meaning, enabling downstream products to operate with greater consistency, interoperability, and intelligence.

In addition, the DCL plays a critical role in enabling agentic AI capabilities across the enterprise by providing the structured context and semantic grounding required for intelligent agents to operate reliably. This includes ensuring that agent-driven workflows and decisions are based on consistent, governed, and interpretable data context, reducing risks associated with fragmentation, ambiguity, and lack of control.

Within this initiative, we are seeking a Scrum Master to support agile delivery teams building enterprise capabilities on AWS cloud technologies and TIMBR-like tools. This role will help teams deliver platform, data, semantic, and context-serving solutions efficiently by facilitating agile practices, removing impediments, and improving delivery flow across product, engineering, and architecture stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has experience supporting technical teams in complex enterprise environments and is comfortable working with cloud, data, and platform delivery teams. Familiarity with data context, semantic systems, ontologies, agentic AI, prompt engineering, and context engineering is preferred, as the teams may be delivering capabilities that support AI-enabled and context-driven use cases.

 What will you do:Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support one or more technical teams delivering capabilities in AWS and/or TIMBR-like environments.
• Help teams maintain a healthy delivery cadence and improve predictability, transparency, and throughput.
• Remove or escalate impediments that slow team progress.
• Partner with product owners, technical leads, architects, and stakeholders to ensure priorities are clear and execution stays aligned.
• Track and communicate delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and blockers.
• Coach teams on agile principles, continuous improvement, and effective collaboration.
• Support coordination across teams when work spans APIs, pipelines, platform infrastructure, semantic models, or context-serving services.
• Help teams manage dependencies and release coordination in complex enterprise settings.
• Encourage clear definition of done, story readiness, and cross-functional alignment.
• Support delivery of work that may involve agentic AI workflows, prompt-related capabilities, and context engineering needs.

What should you have

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Delivery Lead, or similar role.
• Experience supporting technical teams in software, data, cloud, or platform environments.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to work effectively with engineers, product managers, architects, and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud technologies and/or technical platform delivery environments.
• Comfort working in complex, cross-functional enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with data context, semantic systems, ontology-driven platforms, or TIMBR-like tools is a plus.
• Working knowledge of agentic AI, prompt engineering, and context engineering concepts is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting teams delivering APIs, data pipelines, platform services, or AI-enabled products.
• Familiarity with agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• Experience working with multiple teams and dependency-heavy programs.
• Background in enterprise data, cloud, or semantic technology initiatives.
• Experience with release planning, program coordination, and delivery metrics.
• Agile certifications such as CSM, PSM, or equivalent are a plus.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role means:

• the team has a healthy and predictable delivery cadence
• blockers are identified and removed quickly
• stakeholders have clear visibility into progress and risks
• cross-team dependencies are managed effectively
• the team continuously improves its ways of working
• delivery supports stable progress toward AWS/TIMBR-based platform goals

Who we are:

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for:

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Required Skills:

Adaptability, Adaptability, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Architecture, Azure Devops, Cloud Technology, Conflict Resolution, Context Mapping, Contract Management, Creativity, Data Pipelines, Enterprise Agile Delivery, Enterprise Data, GxP Validation, Information Systems, Infrastructure Project Management, Manufacturing Operations, New Product Development, People Management, Personal Initiative, Production Facilities, Product Management, Project Planning, Prompt Engineering, Regulatory Compliance {+ 2 more}

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

08/11/2026

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