Position Summary
We are seeking a collaborative, servant leader to join our Agile delivery organization as a Scrum Master. This individual will partner closely with Product Owners, technical teams, and business stakeholders to foster high-performing Agile teams, remove impediments, and drive predictable delivery. The ideal candidate is passionate about Agile principles, embraces continuous improvement, and has experience working within a SAFe Agile environment. This role will play an active part in helping mature Agile practices across the organization while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and delivery excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams, facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.
- Coach teams in Agile and SAFe practices to improve collaboration, transparency, quality, and delivery predictability.
- Partner with Product Owners to maintain healthy product backlogs, support backlog refinement, and ensure work aligns with business priorities.
- Identify, manage, and help remove impediments while escalating risks and dependencies when appropriate.
- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and team ownership.
- Track and communicate team health, sprint progress, metrics, risks, and delivery status to leadership.
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies and participate in PI Planning, ART Syncs, Inspect & Adapt, and Scrum of Scrums.
- Support release planning and execution while helping teams continuously improve delivery practices.
- Champion Agile values and servant leadership throughout the organization.
Qualifications
- 3+ years serving as a Scrum Master in an Agile software development environment.
- Experience working within a SAFe Agile organization; SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM), or SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification preferred.
- Strong understanding of Scrum, Kanban, Lean-Agile principles, and continuous improvement practices.
- Experience facilitating cross-functional teams and managing dependencies across multiple workstreams.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, coaching, conflict resolution, and organizational skills.
- Experience using Jira and Agile reporting tools.
- Ability to build trusted relationships with technical teams, product management, and business stakeholders.
Preferred Attributes
- Servant leader with a coaching mindset.
- Strong facilitator who encourages collaboration and healthy team dynamics.
- Proactive problem solver with excellent organizational skills.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.
- Passion for helping teams continuously improve and deliver customer value.
