Scrum Master

Veros Real Estate Solutions; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

401(k)

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Veros, headquartered in Santa Ana, California, is seeking a Scrum Master to coach teams, enforce Scrum practices, and drive continuous improvement.

The role requires strong Agile facilitation skills and experience with Azure DevOps and Jira to manage Epics, Features, user stories, and tasks. Collaboration with Product Owners and stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent Agile certification.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks and principles (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and enforce Scrum ceremonies and cadence: Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog refinement, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives.
• Coach and mentor teams on Agile principles, self-organization, and cross-functionality.
• Remove impediments and identify obstacles hindering progress.
• Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and actionable changes.
• Ensure alignment with organizational Scrum standards and team working agreements.
• Foster stakeholder collaboration and maintain strong relationships with Product Owners and teams.
• Leverage metrics for team performance, delivery, and enterprise reporting.
• Manage all work in Azure DevOps (Epics, Features, user stories, tasks).

Skills

Agile frameworks

Facilitation

Communication

Conflict resolution

Coaching

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

About the Company:

Headquartered in Santa Ana California, Veros (www.veros.com) is a growing technology company that develops, operates and maintains custom software and business analytic solutions for the financial services industry. We are looking for a self-motivated, independent person to play a critical role, supporting the company’s end user technology needs.

Veros offers a unique opportunity that encourages creativity and professional growth along with a competitive salary and benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, 401(k), paid vacation, holidays, and more.

Job Description:

The Scrum Master role ensures that Scrum principles, practices, and values are understood and enacted across the team and organization. The Scrum Master will work closely with Product Owners, Development Teams, and stakeholders to foster collaboration, remove impediments, and drive continuous improvement. The SCRUM Master will need to be able to effectively coach SCRUM team to deliver value with purpose and transparency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and enforce Scrum ceremonies and cadence: Daily Stand-Up’s, Sprint Planning, Backlog refinement, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives.
• Coach and Mentor: Well versed in multiple Agile frameworks to Guide teams on Agile principles, self-organization, and cross-functionality. Act as an Agile coach to promote transparency, inspection, and adaptation. (SCRUM, SCRUMBAN, KANBAN, Hybrid, SAFe etc)
• Remove Impediments: Identify and eliminate obstacles that hinder team progress.
• Promote Continuous Improvement: Encourage retrospectives and implement actionable improvements for productivity and quality.
• Ensure Alignment: Enforce team working agreements and maintain consistency with organizational Scrum standards and the Scrum workbook.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Foster strong relationships between Scrum Teams, Product Owners, and external stakeholders.
• Metrics and Reporting: Help teams understand and leverage metrics for team performance, delivery and predictability which will feed into enterprise reporting.
• Full understanding of ADO, building dashboards and manage all work in ADO. (Epic, Features, user stories, tasks)

Required Qualifications/Skills:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent Agile certification.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks and principles (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Experience with Agile tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira).
• Ability to coach teams and influence organizational change.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in project management, PMP.
• CSM, CSPO or similar required.
• Deep expertise with hands-on enterprise organizational change, Agile practices, transformation and utilizing different frameworks.

Veros is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.