Lead Scrum Master

Sogeti; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Sogeti, a Capgemini company, seeks a Scrum Master Lead to drive agile maturity across programs. You will serve as a servant leader, coach delivery teams, and remove impediments at scale while aligning stakeholders and delivering fast value.

The role requires leading Scrum ceremonies, guiding teams in agile practices, and enabling cross-team coordination in a hybrid to in-office environment in Phoenix, AZ.

Qualifications

• Banking/financial services experience

Responsibilities

• Serve as Lead Scrum Master across multiple agile teams or a complex program.

Skills

Lead Scrum Master

Agile coaching

Stakeholder alignment

Agile metrics

Servant leadership

Education

CSM/SAFe certification

Tools

Jira

Job description

**Candidates must currently reside in the greater Phoenix, AZ area/ In-office 4 days a week**

The Scrum Master Lead is a senior Agile delivery leader responsible for enabling high‑performing Scrum teams while driving Agile maturity across programs, departments, or portfolios. This role goes beyond a single team, focusing on organizational impediment removal, Agile coaching, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement at scale. The Scrum Master Lead acts as a servant leader, coach, and trusted advisor to delivery teams and leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as Lead Scrum Master across multiple Agile teams or a complex program
• Facilitate and oversee Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand‑ups, Reviews, Retrospectives) while ensuring consistency and quality
• Coach Scrum Masters and delivery teams on Agile principles, self‑organization, and continuous improvement
• Ensure Scrum and Agile frameworks are understood, adopted, and effectively executed

Program & Organizational Enablement

• Identify and remove cross‑team, program‑level, and organizational impediments
• Partner with Product Owners, Architects, and Delivery Leads to improve value flow and predictability
• Support Agile delivery in hybrid environments (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, Waterfall as applicable)
• Drive alignment across dependent teams and shared services

Coaching & Leadership

• Act as an Agile coach for teams, Scrum Masters, and leaders
• Guide leadership in fostering an environment that supports fast value delivery, quality, and customer focus
• Mentor junior and mid‑level Scrum Masters and contribute to Scrum Master communities of practice
• Lead by example in adopting an Agile mindset and behaviors
• Define and monitor Agile metrics (velocity, flow, predictability, team health)
• Use data and information radiators to drive transparency and informed decision‑making
• Facilitate retrospectives at team and program levels to ensure actionable improvements
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and delivery health

**Must Haves Requirements:

• Banking and/or Financial Services Industry Experience
• Experience facilitating and overseeing Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand‑ups, Reviews, Retrospectives) while ensuring consistency and quality
• Manage Scrum and Agile frameworks and ensure they are understood, adopted, and effectively executed
• Agile Coach expertise for teams, Scrum Masters, and leaders
• Experience defining and monitoring Agile metrics (velocity, flow, predictability, team health)
• Expertise in proactively managing risks, dependencies, and delivery health
• Experience in Agile delivery, including senior or lead Scrum Master roles

Additional Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Scrum and Agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban)
• Proven ability to coach teams and influence senior stakeholders
• Strong facilitation, communication, and conflict‑resolution skills
• Scrum Master certification (CSM, SAFe, or equivalent)

About Sogeti

Part of the Capgemini Group, Sogeti makes business value through technology for organizations that need to implement innovation at speed and want a local partner with global scale. With a hands‑on culture and close proximity to its clients, Sogeti implements solutions that will help organizations work faster, better, and smarter. By combining its agility and speed of implementation through a DevOps approach, Sogeti delivers innovative solutions in quality engineering, cloud and application development, all driven by AI, data and automation.

Become Your Best | www.sogeti.us

Disclaimer

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Capgemini discloses salary range information in compliance with state and local pay transparency obligations. The disclosed range represents the lowest to highest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting, although we may ultimately pay more or less than the disclosed range, and the range may be modified in the future. The disclosed range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, geographic location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, performance, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs. At Capgemini, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role. The base salary range for the tagged location is $120,000 - $155,000.

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