Senior Scrum Master

Role Overview

• Facilitate Scrum events and coach teams to self-organize and continuously improve.
• Design and lead retrospectives tailored to team needs.
• Assess team Agile maturity and adjust coaching approach to match strengths and weaknesses.
• Guide teams in applying lean and agile principles to improve delivery.
• Support multiple interdependent teams in effectively working together in concert.
• Foster collaboration between Scrum Teams and stakeholders.
• Mediate conflicts and support team dynamics to ensure a healthy team environment.
• Support onboarding and agile adoption for new team members and teams.
• Identify and remove impediments to team progress.
• Leverage empirical data to drive continuous improvement.
• Prepare and present sprint reports including velocity, capacity, and predictability metrics.
• Build and maintain workflows and automation to enhance team and department efficiency.
• Collaborate with product teams on backlog management, coaching on prioritization best practices.
• Assist in roadmap development and release forecasting using agile metrics.
• Promote best practices in lean, iterative software delivery.
• Develop working knowledge of our products to provide targeted coaching, help bridge gaps between teams working on related features, and help provide knowledge and context to others.
• Share discussion topics and tactics to improve the effectiveness of the overall Agile team.
• Help more junior Scrum Masters on their own professional journey through mentoring and less formal guidance.
• Coordinate with other Scrum Masters and Project Managers on larger projects or implementations.
• Tracks quarterly goals for team(s).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, information technology, or 5 years’ work experience in related field required.
• 5+ years working in Scrum Master role.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification.