Scrum Master

Overview

Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead and coach one or more cross-functional teams in delivering highquality products. You will own the health of the Agile process — facilitating ceremonies, removing impediments, and protecting the teams focus —

• while keeping delivery aligned with business goals, timelines, and stakeholder expectations. This is a hands-on role for someone who balances
• servant-leadership with practical project management.
• Key Responsibilities
• Agile Facilitation & Coaching
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Coach the team and the wider organization on Agile and Scrum principles, helping teams mature toward self-organization and
• continuous improvement.
• Foster a collaborative, transparent, and psychologically safe team culture.
• Delivery & Project Management
• Drive on-time, on-scope delivery across sprints and releases, tracking progress against commitments.
• Maintain and communicate delivery metrics (velocity, burndown/burnup, cycle time, throughput) and use them to forecast and
• improve.
• Manage dependencies, risks, and issues across teams; escalate and resolve blockers quickly.
• Coordinate planning across multiple teams or workstreams where needed (e.g., PI planning, scrum-of-scrums).
• Stakeholder & Backlog Support
• Partner with Product Owners to keep the backlog refined, prioritized, and ready for delivery.
• Provide clear, regular status reporting to stakeholders and leadership.
• Manage expectations around scope, timeline, and trade-offs, and communicate changes proactively.
• Continuous Improvement
• Identify process bottlenecks and lead initiatives to improve team efficiency and product quality.
• Champion engineering and delivery best practices in collaboration with technical leads.
• Track and act on retrospective outcomes to drive measurable improvement over time.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 4+ years of overall experience as a Project Manager, Scrum Master, or Agile delivery lead.
• Strong working knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and scaling approaches (SAFe, LeSS, or similar).
• Proven ability to manage and deliver software projects with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, conflict-resolution, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Hands-on experience with Agile tooling such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM / PSM I or II), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), or PMI-ACP certification.
• PMP certification or equivalent traditional project-management experience.
• Background in software development or a closely related technical domain.
• Experience coaching distributed or multi-team environments.
• Core Competencies
• Servant leadership — puts the team first and leads by enabling others.
• Organization — keeps complex, multi-stream work on track without losing detail.
• Communication — translates clearly between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Problem-solving — anticipates risks and removes obstacles before they slow delivery.
• Adaptability — adjusts approach to fit the teams maturity and the projects needs.
• This is a customizable template. Adjust the responsibilities, years of experience, certifications, and competencies to match your
• organizations seniority level, industry, and team structure.