Sr. Scrum Master - Hybrid

EPMA•Houston, TX

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

EPMA is supporting a client in the energy/operations sector hiring a Scrum Master to support a large-scale business transformation program. This role focuses on helping business-led teams adopt agile practices and deliver measurable outcomes through structured, disciplined sprint execution.

Requirements

Experience serving as a Scrum Master in agile environments
Strong knowledge of Scrum principles, lifecycle, and ceremonies
Demonstrated ability to facilitate planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and sprint execution
Experience coaching teams or stakeholders who are new to agile ways of working
Strong communication, facilitation, and organizational skills
Ability to enforce timeboxes, maintain sprint discipline, and keep teams focused on outcomes
Experience helping teams break work into clear user stories and acceptance criteria
Ability to work effectively across business stakeholders, delivery teams, and program leadership

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting non-technical or business teams in an agile delivery environment
Experience in agile transformation, operating model change, or organizational change initiatives
Familiarity with operational excellence, continuous improvement, lean, or process transformation
Experience working in large enterprise organizations with complex stakeholder environments
Exposure to business capability-based planning or value stream-oriented operating models

Responsibilities

Establish and reinforce effective sprint cadence, timeboxing, and team operating rhythm
Coach business leads, team members, and stakeholders on Scrum roles, ceremonies, and agile ways of working
Help teams translate business work into clear backlog items, user stories, and acceptance criteria
Keep teams focused on incremental outcomes rather than reverting to traditional project and deliverable-based habits
Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
Identify and escalate impediments, risks, and delivery drift that affect sprint performance and team progress
Support multiple capability cluster teams as they work toward defined business capabilities and measurable outcomes
Partner with Operational Excellence leadership and program governance to maintain alignment across teams
Promote continuous improvement through inspection, adaptation, and stronger execution discipline
Help create consistency in how teams plan, execute, and evaluate work across the program