Senior Scrum Master & Delivery Coach — Hybrid (Brussels)

Keystone Solutions; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Keystone Solutions in Brussels seeks an Expert Scrum Master to join a consultancy mission within a banking/financial-services context. You will represent Keystone in the client's IT environment, coaching the squad, Product Owner and stakeholders, and ensuring effective collaboration, transparency and continuous improvement.

The role requires strong delivery management, dependency handling and cross-application coordination, with 50% on-site and 50% homeworking.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in a relevant domain.
• Expert knowledge of Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Strong experience facilitating and coaching cross-functional Agile teams.
• Experience with Agile delivery and reporting tools such as Rally and/or Jira.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Sound knowledge of project and delivery management practices.
• Proven ability to manage dependencies, impediments, risks and delivery commitments.
• Ability to navigate a large organization and interact effectively at different levels.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Ability to communicate impediments and risks in a transparent, structured and fact-based manner.
• Understanding of distributed software development.
• Understanding of Agile software lifecycle management.
• Understanding of operational readiness, testing and production delivery.
• Understanding of automated testing and CI/CD principles.
• Sufficient technical affinity to understand integration and architecture discussions.

Responsibilities

• Set up and facilitate Scrum ceremonies: Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Refinement, Sprint Review and Retrospective, as well as additional coordination sessions when required.
• Support the squad in translating objectives and features into a realistic and transparent delivery plan.
• Follow key delivery milestones and proactively identify risks, impediments and dependencies.
• Facilitate cross-team and cross-application dependency management, ensuring dependencies have clear ownership and follow-up.
• Support the Product Owner in maintaining an actionable, prioritized and sufficiently refined Product Backlog.
• Support the team in applying and continuously improving its Definition of Ready, Definition of Done and overall delivery practices.
• Track capacity, predictability and relevant delivery metrics to support fact-based planning and continuous improvement.
• Ensure delivery risks and issues are communicated early, transparently and factually.
• Support coordination around testing, releases, operational readiness and production follow-up.
• Facilitate collaboration between technical, functional, business and operational stakeholders.

Skills

Scrum Mastery

Agile Coaching

Stakeholder Management

Delivery Planning

Impediment Removal

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Rally

Job description

Keystone Solutions in Brussels seeks an Expert Scrum Master to join a consultancy mission within a banking/financial-services context. You will represent Keystone in the client's IT environment, coaching the squad, Product Owner and stakeholders, and ensuring effective collaboration, transparency and continuous improvement.

The role requires strong delivery management, dependency handling and cross-application coordination, with 50% on-site and 50% homeworking.