Scrum master - GX
Posted 3 days ago by Param Consulting Services, Inc.
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote
Summary: The Scrum Master role focuses on promoting team health and agile practices through coaching and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include leading Scrum ceremonies, managing team dynamics, and ensuring accountability for sprint success. The position requires collaboration with stakeholders and the use of agile metrics to drive transparency and improvement. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in agile methodologies and experience with agile lifecycle management tools.
Key Responsibilities:
- Promote team health, agility, and delivery excellence through continuous improvement and coaching.
- Foster self-organization, ownership, accountability, and strong team dynamics.
- Provide agile coaching to assigned teams and support agile maturity across the organization.
- Lead all core Scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Refinement, Review, Retrospective), ensuring process integrity, efficiency, and time-boxing.
- Ask critical questions that challenge assumptions and continuously evolve agile practices.
- Manage team capacity and support reliable forecasting for predictable sprint and program delivery.
- Take accountability for sprint success by proactively identifying, removing, or escalating blockers.
- Hold teams accountable to performance expectations, team agreements, and agile best practices.
- Help manage delivery risks, dependencies, and impediments at the team and cross-team level.
- Build strong, collaborative stakeholder relationships that promote transparency and shared ownership.
- Coordinate cross-team and enterprise-wide dependencies to minimize delivery risk.
- Facilitate feedback loops and alignment through agile ceremonies and structured checkpoints.
- Create, modify, publish, and leverage standardized agile metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown, workflow health) to drive transparency and continuous improvement.
- Develop dashboards and reporting for team and leadership visibility.
- Maintain a single source of truth for delivery tracking, metrics, and documentation.
- Partner closely with engineering and QA teams to ensure timely, stable, and high-quality releases.
- Hands-on experience with agile lifecycle management tools, including Jira, Target Process, Confluence, and related reporting dashboards.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, release coordination, build processes, and DevOps practices.
- Working knowledge of common software development languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript) and frameworks.
- Familiarity with development environments and version control systems (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitLab).
Key Skills:
- 5 years of experience.
- Certified Scrum Master with experience supporting Agile teams and driving continuous improvement.
- Strong facilitator of Scrum ceremonies; removes blockers and improves delivery flow.
- Proficient with Jira/Confluence; experienced in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and team coordination.
- Effective communicator who bridges technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Basic understanding of software development concepts, APIs, cloud environments, and SDLC; able to collaborate closely with engineers and translate technical needs into actionable work.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Job Description
- Promote team health, agility, and delivery excellence through continuous improvement and coaching.
- Foster self-organization, ownership, accountability, and strong team dynamics.
- Provide agile coaching to assigned teams and support agile maturity across the organization.
- Lead all core Scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Refinement, Review, Retrospective), ensuring process integrity, efficiency, and time-boxing.
- Ask critical questions that challenge assumptions and continuously evolve agile practices.
- Manage team capacity and support reliable forecasting for predictable sprint and program delivery.
- Take accountability for sprint success by proactively identifying, removing, or escalating blockers.
- Hold teams accountable to performance expectations, team agreements, and agile best practices.
- Help manage delivery risks, dependencies, and impediments at the team and cross-team level.
- Build strong, collaborative stakeholder relationships that promote transparency and shared ownership.
- Coordinate cross-team and enterprise-wide dependencies to minimize delivery risk.
- Facilitate feedback loops and alignment through agile ceremonies and structured checkpoints.
- Create, modify, publish, and leverage standardized agile metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown, workflow health) to drive transparency and continuous improvement.
- Develop dashboards and reporting for team and leadership visibility.
- Maintain a single source of truth for delivery tracking, metrics, and documentation.
- Partner closely with engineering and QA teams to ensure timely, stable, and high-quality releases.
- Hands-on experience with agile lifecycle management tools, including Jira, Target Process, Confluence, and related reporting dashboards.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, release coordination, build processes, and DevOps practices.
- Working knowledge of common software development languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript) and frameworks.
- Familiarity with development environments and version control systems (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitLab).
Qualifications
- 5 years of experience.
- Certified Scrum Master with experience supporting Agile teams and driving continuous improvement.
- Strong facilitator of Scrum ceremonies; removes blockers and improves delivery flow.
- Proficient with Jira/Confluence; experienced in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and team coordination.
- Effective communicator who bridges technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Basic understanding of software development concepts, APIs, cloud environments, and SDLC; able to collaborate closely with engineers and translate technical needs into actionable work.