Senior Scrum Master (Remote) – Agile Delivery Champion

Black Pen Recruitment; France; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Pen Recruitment seeks a seasoned Scrum Master to join a leading ICT company. The role is remote within the EU and may involve on-site collaboration with a major client's IT team.

They require 8+ years in IT, at least 3 years as Scrum Master at SM2 level, and SAFe 5/6 Agilist certification. Strong Agile metrics, dashboards, and Azure DevOps or Jira expertise are essential. Fluent English is required.

Qualifications

• University Degree and at least 8 years of IT professional experience.
• Minimum of 3 years dedicated experience working as a Scrum Master at SM2 level or above.
• Led at least 2 production teams through full sprint cycles (planning, review, retrospective, and refinement);
• Experience coordinating cross-team work via Scrum-of-Scrums or PI Planning events;
• Deep knowledge of the Scrum Guide and Agile Manifesto principles and values;
• Good knowledge of facilitation techniques (e.g., Fist of Five, participatory decision-making, Liberating Structures);
• Good knowledge of systems-thinking and process tailoring to fit complex or evolving environments;
• Excellent command of the English language.

Responsibilities

• Organize and facilitate agile activities and ceremonies including daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and product backlog refinement sessions;
• Ensure that all meetings are productive and timeboxed;
• Collaborate with the product owner to manage the backlog;
• Coach team and Product Owner on empiricism and incremental delivery;
• Track flow metrics (velocity, sprint burndown, iteration burn rate) and guide data-driven improvement;
• Promote agile standards, tools, and best practices;
• Identify and resolve impediments to team progress;
• Promote empowered, self-organising teams and psychological safety;
• Uphold Definition of Done and quality gates;
• Communicate with other Scrum Masters and product owners to ensure transparency;
• Support the team in using Azure DevOps and Confluence;
• Experiment with new practices to improve team outcomes;
• Participate in learning opportunities to improve skills;
• Contribute to agile practices improvements within the organization.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile coaching

Azure DevOps

Jira

SAFe

Facilitation

Kanban

Team leadership

English language

Product backlog management

Education

University Degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

Black Pen Recruitment seeks a seasoned Scrum Master to join a leading ICT company. The role is remote within the EU and may involve on-site collaboration with a major client's IT team.

They require 8+ years in IT, at least 3 years as Scrum Master at SM2 level, and SAFe 5/6 Agilist certification. Strong Agile metrics, dashboards, and Azure DevOps or Jira expertise are essential. Fluent English is required.