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Job Description
Senior Scrum Master
Role Summary:
Enterprise-focused Scrum Master role supporting multiple Agile teams, cross-team coordination, delivery governance, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement in complex product and engineering environments.
Job Description
We are looking for a highly experienced Scrum Master with 10-12 years of overall experience and strong expertise in guiding multiple Agile teams in parallel.
This role is responsible for enabling disciplined Agile execution, coaching teams and leaders, removing impediments, managing dependencies, and improving predictability across a multi-team delivery landscape.
The ideal candidate brings servant leadership, strong facilitation skills, executive presence, and practical experience working with Product Owners, Engineering, Program leadership, and business stakeholders in matrixed enterprise settings.
Key Responsibilities
Serve as Scrum Master for multiple Scrum teams and ensure effective adoption of Scrum and Agile practices.
Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and cross-team synchronization forums.
Drive proactive management of risks, issues, impediments, and dependencies across teams and escalate where needed.
Coach Product Owners, team members, and stakeholders on backlog readiness, prioritization hygiene, estimation, team accountability, and continuous improvement.
Track and communicate key delivery metrics such as velocity, sprint predictability, burndown, cycle time, dependency risk, and team health indicators.
Support release planning, milestone tracking, and delivery governance for complex, multi-team initiatives.
Enable teams to improve collaboration, self-organization, quality, and delivery maturity while aligning execution to business outcomes.
Required Skills
10-12 years of overall experience with significant recent experience as a Scrum Master in Agile software, digital, data, or platform delivery environments.
Proven experience handling multiple Scrum teams simultaneously, including cross-team planning, dependency management, and execution oversight.
Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Agile metrics, release planning, and delivery management practices.
Certification such as CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist, or equivalent Agile credential.
Hands-on experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, or similar Agile lifecycle management tools.
Strong communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, stakeholder management, and executive reporting skills.
Ability to identify root causes, remove blockers, drive actions to closure, and maintain delivery momentum in fast-paced environments.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
Desired Skills
Certification such as CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist, or equivalent Agile credential.
Experience supporting scaled Agile programs, PI planning, enterprise governance, or transformation initiatives.
Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and quality engineering practices.
Experience working with distributed teams, vendor partners, and senior business leadership.
Ability to coach beyond team-level ceremonies and help improve organizational Agile maturity and delivery discipline.
