Scrum Master (Senior) - BNP Paribas Fortis

Adjugo; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

BNP Paribas Fortis in Brussels is seeking a Senior Scrum Master for its AI tribe. The role focuses on raising Agile maturity, establishing Scrum and sprint practices from scratch, and serving as a key reference for the team’s Agile practices.

You will organize ceremonies, support backlog management, coach teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders, remove impediments, and promote self-organization across local and offshore teams in English in a hybrid work arrangement.

Qualifications

• 3+ years relevant experience.
• Implement Scrum from scratch.
• Agile reporting tool knowledge.
• Automated unit testing understanding.
• Automated functional testing understanding.
• Continuous integration tooling understanding.
• Software development methodology knowledge.
• Project management methodology knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Implement Scrum sprint practices
• Increase tribe Agile maturity
• Coach project teams, Product Owners and stakeholders
• Remove impediments and protect team focus
• Support backlog management and velocity tracking
• Organize and facilitate ceremonies
• Participate in community of practice with local/offshore teams
• Promote self-organisation and cross-functional collaboration

Skills

3+ years experience

Implement Scrum from scratch

Agile reporting tool knowledge

Automated unit testing understanding

Automated functional testing

CI tooling understanding

Software development methodology

Project management methodology

English communication

Tools

Jira

Job description

Dates: 2026-10-15 — 2027-12-30

BNP Paribas Fortis is seeking a Senior Scrum Master for its Artificial Intelligence tribe in Brussels. The tribe wants to increase its Agile maturity. The mission particularly values experience establishing Scrum and sprint-based working from scratch. The consultant will be a key reference for the team’s Agile practices.

The Scrum Master will organize and facilitate ceremonies, support backlog management, and track capacity and velocity. The role includes coaching project teams, Product Owners, business lines and stakeholders. The consultant will remove impediments, protect team focus, and support self-organization. Reporting, risk and issue management also form part of the mission.

The consultant will participate in a tribe community of practice and may join a company-wide Scrum Master guild. The work involves collaboration with local and offshore teams in English. It requires strong Agile expertise, understanding of development and testing tools, and servant leadership. The stated working arrangement is half on site and half from home.

Top Reasons to Apply

Shape AI tribe agility

Build Scrum practices

Coach cross-functional teams

Hybrid Brussels assignment

Responsibilities

• Implement Scrum sprint practices
• Increase tribe Agile maturity
• Ensure Scrum methodology understanding
• Maximize team project outcomes
• Protect team from distractions
• Coach project business stakeholders
• Promote useful stakeholder interactions
• Collaborate in Scrum practice community

Must Have

• 3+ years relevant experience
• Implement Scrum from scratch
• Agile reporting tool knowledge
• Automated unit testing understanding
• Automated functional testing understanding
• Continuous integration tooling understanding
• Software development methodology knowledge
• Project management methodology knowledge

Detailed Responsibilities and Skills

Additional Responsibilities

• Share practices across guild
• Harmonize team working methods
• Set up Daily Stand-ups
• Facilitate Sprint Reviews
• Facilitate Sprint Planning
• Facilitate Sprint Retrospectives
• Facilitate other project meetings
• Schedule methodology key steps
• Help teams overcome obstacles
• Support Product Owner backlog
• Support Definition of Done
• Track team capacity metrics
• Track team velocity metrics
• Coach and challenge teams
• Promote gradual team self-organization
• Remove team effectiveness barriers
• Champion company Agile methods
• Manage project risks and issues
• At least 3 years of relevant experience
• Experience implementing Scrum and sprint ways of working from scratch
• Expert knowledge of agile methodology and techniques (e.g. Kanban)
• Sound knowledge of English and ability to communicate with both local and off-shore teams
• Positive attitude and empathy
• Pragmatic listening and problem-solving support
• Create an environment of open feedback and trust
• Encourage knowledge and best-practice sharing
• Proactively develop team and individual competences
• Continuous improvement through feedback and adaptation
• Encourage collaboration, team building and autonomy
• Persuasion before authority and questions before instructions
• Support team problem-solving before providing answers
• Align actions with IT strategy
• Servant leadership and Agile mindset
• Work in cross-functional teams and contribute beyond primary discipline toward sprint goals

Technical skills

• Understanding of automated unit testing tooling
• Understanding of automated functional testing tooling
• Understanding of continuous integration tooling
• Sound knowledge of software development methodology
• Sound knowledge of project management methodology

Tools

• Knowledge of agile reporting and follow-up tools (e.g. Jira)