Scrum Master

The Scrum Master will drive agile delivery across multiple Digital Engineering projects and PODs within a complex enterprise technology environment.

The role will own team ceremonies, sprint execution, dependency management, delivery reporting, and coordination across product, engineering, architecture, QA, DevOps, business stakeholders, and external partners. The Scrum Master will remove impediments, strengthen delivery discipline, and maintain alignment between business priorities and engineering outcomes.

The ideal candidate brings consulting or enterprise digital transformation experience, strong stakeholder management, vendor coordination, and practical agile coaching across cross-functional engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Agile Delivery & Facilitation

• Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
  
  


• Lead cross-POD synchronization sessions to manage dependencies across digital engineering teams.
  
  


• Maintain sprint health, backlog readiness, delivery velocity, and clear ownership of committed outcomes.
  
  


• Enforce Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD) standards.
  
  


• Track progress, risks, actions, dependencies, and impediments; drive timely resolution and escalation.
  
  

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Act as the coordination point between product, engineering, business teams, technology vendors, and delivery partners.
  
  


• Maintain transparent communication across internal and external stakeholders on priorities, progress, and constraints.
  
  


• Drive alignment on scope, timelines, technical dependencies, deliverables, and release readiness.
  
  

Coaching & Continuous Improvement

• Coach PODs on agile values, practical delivery discipline, accountability, and self-organization.
  
  


• Promote CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, quality engineering, and continuous feedback practices.
  
  


• Build a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement.
  
  

Planning, Reporting & Governance

• Support release planning, capacity planning, governance reviews, and leadership status reporting.
  
  


• Maintain integrated plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID items, and delivery dashboards using Microsoft Project and agile tools.
  
  


• Ensure sprint records, decisions, actions, releases, and delivery evidence remain current and audit-ready.
  
  

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
  
  


• Minimum 8 years of experience in IT/product development, including 4 years as a Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager in digital engineering environments.
  
  


• 2+ years of experience coaching and training individuals or engineering teams in agile practices.
  
  


• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple organizational levels using advanced facilitation techniques.
  
  


• 4+ years of experience using tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, Project Online, etc.) and collaboration platforms (Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Confluence).
  
  


• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Project with at least 3 years of practical experience.
  
  


• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, and modern software engineering practices.
  
  


• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
  
  


• Certified Scrum Master (CSM, PSM I/II) required; SAFe certification preferred.
  
  


• Consulting experience in digital transformation, digital engineering, product development, or enterprise technology programs is highly desirable.
  
  

Key Competencies:

• Strong communication, leadership, and facilitation skills.
  
  


• Proven ability to manage multiple engineering PODs in a scaled agile delivery environment.
  
  


• Excellent problem-solving and conflict-resolution abilities.
  
  


• Deep understanding of agile delivery metrics and engineering performance optimization.
  
  


• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional product, engineering, architecture, QA, DevOps, and business teams.
  
  


• High adaptability, resilience, and focus on delivering measurable business value through digital engineering.