Ahmed Waleed

Scrum Master

Digital Factory • Fulltime

Apr 2025 - Present • 1 yr 1 mo

- Led the end-to-end Agile delivery process for the Data Product squad, ensuring smooth collaboration between data engineers, data analysts, and data scientists. - Facilitated Scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Reviews, and Refinements) to maintain alignment, clarity, and delivery focus. - Partnered with data engineers to prioritize and deliver high-quality data views, pipelines, and data models aligned with business and analytics needs. - Ensured seamless communication between the squad and data science teams to guarantee that created data views meet analytical, modeling, and ML requirements. - Removed blockers, managed dependencies, and protected the team from external interruptions to maintain a stable development environment. - Collaborated closely with the Product Owner to refine and maintain a clear, transparent, and prioritized Data Product backlog. - Drove continuous improvement by encouraging experimentation, optimizing workflow, and implementing action items from retrospectives. - Supported the adoption of Agile best practices within the data domain, improving delivery speed, data quality, and stakeholder satisfaction. - Tracked and reported squad KPIs (velocity, lead time, throughput, data quality metrics) to ensure transparency and support data-driven decision-making. Fostered a culture of collaboration, psychological safety, and shared ownership across data engineering and data science functions. - Ensured alignment with Bank-level data governance, privacy, and security standards while delivering data products. - Coordinated with cross-functional teams (Data Engineers, Data Governance, Data Modelling & Quality and Business Units) to resolve dependencies and plan releases of new data views and enhancements. - Mentored team members on Agile mindset, communication, and effective collaboration in a hybrid business–data environment.