Scrum Master

Responsibilities
- Lead all Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, retros) and ensure they run efficiently and with purpose.
- Partner closely with the Product Owner to maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog aligned with business value.
- Remove impediments, manage cross-team dependencies, and ensure the team can operate at high velocity.
- Foster a culture of transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
- Coach the team on agile best practices, metrics, estimation, flow management, and delivery predictability.
- Facilitate alignment between engineering, architecture, business stakeholders, and support teams.
- Protect the team from scope creep and external distractions while enabling high-quality delivery.
- Analyze team performance metrics (velocity, cycle time, throughput) and drive measurable improvements.
- Support team planning, release coordination, risk management, and communication across workstreams.
- Promote engineering best practices such as definition of done, technical debt visibility, and quality-first delivery.


Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or Delivery Lead supporting software engineering teams.
- Proven track record of enabling successful delivery in complex, technical environments (distributed systems, modernization, or enterprise integration preferred).
- Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP).
- Experience facilitating cross-team dependencies and coordinating with architecture, DevOps, and QA.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Ability to coach engineers and stakeholders at multiple levels of agile maturity.
- Experience using agile tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, etc.).