Senior Scrum Master

Role Overview

• Act as a servant-leader and Agile coach, guiding two cross-functional teams in applying Agile principles tailored to the organization’s context.
• Focus on building high-performing, self-managed teams by fostering ownership, collaboration, accountability, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Create a psychologically safe environment where team members feel empowered to speak up, take initiative, and learn from challenges.
• Facilitate key Agile ceremonies (e.g., daily stand-ups, planning, reviews, retrospectives, refinement sessions), ensuring they are effective, time-boxed, and value-driven.
• Ensure that discussions, decisions, and action items are captured and followed through to completion.
• Coach teams to deliver valuable increments by key milestones, with special attention to release timelines and stakeholder expectations.
• Support the team in realistic planning, estimation, and forecasting, enabling predictable and sustainable delivery.
• Actively identify and remove impediments, ensuring they are tracked to resolution and not left open or ambiguous.
• Protect the team from uncontrolled scope expansion, and maintain focus on top priorities.
• Promote strong team collaboration with Product Management, Architecture, Engineering leadership, and other stakeholders to ensure clear understanding and of goals and priorities.
• Coordinate with other teams, participate in cross-team syncs, and foster system-level alignment, ensuring cross-team dependencies are visible, actively followed up, and progressed to resolution.
• Drive clarity in cases of ambiguity by facilitating alignment and ensuring teams converge on a path forward.
• Act as a communication and cultural bridge across global teams, enabling smooth collaboration across regions, time zones, and diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Contribute to broader Agile adoption by coaching individuals and teams, encouraging an Agile mindset throughout the organization.

Requirements

• Experience in IT 5+ years
• 3+ years as a Scrum Master
• Experience in work by Agile (Scrum, Kanban, XP) methodologies
• Experience building team and facilitation of evaluation to Performing state
• Fluent English
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Good understanding of SDLC
• Highest education, preferably technical.

Tech Stack

• SDLC