Scrum Master II

Scrum Master Role

Step into a hands-on Scrum Master role where you'll help guide agile teams, support product leadership, and strengthen delivery practices across a large-scale environment. This position offers the opportunity to facilitate meaningful agile ceremonies, improve team performance through data-driven insights, and contribute to continuous improvement in a collaborative setting.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and facilitate core agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily standups, reviews, retrospectives, and PI planning.
• Partner with product leadership to help define objectives, break down work into actionable features, and support story creation and tracking.
• Use agile metrics and reporting to provide meaningful insights that support decision-making and delivery visibility.
• Support backlog refinement, estimation, and prioritization to help teams stay aligned and focused.
• Assist with capacity planning and dependency tracking to improve coordination across teams.
• Coach team members and stakeholders on agile and scrum best practices to help build maturity and consistency.
• Support teams working in scaled agile environments and help remove barriers that may affect delivery.

Skills:

• Strong experience with Agile and Scrum frameworks.
• Background in facilitating agile ceremonies and supporting team delivery.
• Ability to analyze agile metrics and turn data into actionable insights.
• Hands-on experience with Jira Software and Jira Align.
• Knowledge of backlog refinement, estimation, and capacity planning.
• Experience tracking dependencies and supporting coordinated execution.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and active listening skills.
• Servant leadership mindset with a collaborative and supportive approach.
• Ability to resolve conflict thoughtfully and guide teams through challenges.
• Emotional intelligence, empathy, and a coaching-oriented style.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working in scaled agile environments, including SAFe.
• Familiarity with Kanban, Scrumban, Test Driven Development, and Continuous Testing & Integration.
• Previous experience coaching teams in agile practices across different environments.
• Background in product development support.
• Agile certification such as CSM, CSP, PMI-ACP, ICA-ACC, or similar.
• Experience with additional agile tools such as AgileCraft, VersionOne, or TFS.
• Ability to adapt coaching and facilitation approaches to different team needs and working styles.

Horizontal is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where every person feels respected, supported, and valued. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply if you are excited about the role and meet the qualifications. By applying for this position, you acknowledge and agree that Horizontal Talent may contact you regarding your application using automated technology, including phone calls, SMS/text messages, or email, which may be delivered by our virtual AI recruiter, Alex.