Senior Scrum Master
About The Position
The Senior Scrum Master is responsible for facilitating Agile execution across multiple infrastructure and engineering teams, ensuring consistent adherence to Scrum principles, sprint discipline, and continuous improvement practices. This role supports mulitple teams under a single Engineering Manager and partners closely with Technical Leads to optimize delivery, predictability, and team health. This is not a traditional command-and-control project management role. It is a servant-leader position focused on enabling high-performing Agile teams while maintaining visibility and accountability across initiatives. In addition to Scrum leadership, this role provides light project management support for initiatives assigned to the teams, ensuring alignment with business priorities, transparency of progress, and proactive risk management.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master in an engineering or software development environment.
- Experience supporting multiple Agile teams simultaneously.
- Demonstrated success improving sprint predictability, team velocity, and delivery consistency.
- Strong understanding of Scrum, Agile principles, and incremental product delivery.
- Experience operating within a cloud-first, CI/CD environment.
- Working knowledge of modern web application architectures and cloud infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Jira, Confluence, or comparable Agile tooling.
Nice To Haves
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent.
- PMI-ACP or other Agile-focused certification.
- Experience coaching Agile maturity across engineering organizations.
- Familiarity with Lean or flow-based methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Serve as Scrum Master for multiple engineering teams, facilitating sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Ensure Scrum ceremonies are productive, time-boxed, and outcome-driven.
- Promote Agile best practices and continuous improvement across teams.
- Identify and remove impediments that hinder team progress.
- Coach teams on sprint discipline, estimation practices, and commitment reliability.
- Monitor sprint health metrics (velocity, predictability, burndown, cycle time, etc.) and guide teams toward improvement.
- Support coordination between engineering teams and external stakeholders.
- Ensure dependencies are identified early and managed effectively.
- Partner with Technical Leads to align sprint execution with technical strategy and delivery commitments.
- Reinforce clarity around scope, priorities, and acceptance criteria.
- Provide structured oversight for projects assigned to the teams.
- Track milestones, risks, and deliverables without disrupting Agile flow.
- Ensure project artifacts (roadmaps, timelines, documentation, status updates) are maintained.
- Communicate project status, risks, and trade-offs to Engineering leadership.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration when projects involve other departments.
- Maintain dashboards and reporting to provide visibility into sprint performance, delivery status, and team capacity.
- Support the Engineering Manager with insights on delivery trends and potential risks.
- Ensure documentation is current and accessible in Jira, Confluence, or related systems.
Benefits
- Competitive salary - $100,000-$140,000
- Employer sponsored health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- Retirement plan with company contribution
- Annual company profit sharing
- Personal development/training budget
- Open, collaborative work environment
- Extensive 2-week onboarding plan
- Comprehensive mentorship program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
