Scrum Master - Automotive/Robotics

Sogeti; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Sogeti, part of the Capgemini Group, seeks an experienced Scrum Master to guide an Agile development team through end-to-end product development and optimize Scrum ceremonies. You will partner with clients, product management, and leadership to ensure Agile best practices and impediments are removed for steady delivery.

Responsibilities include planning, facilitating ceremonies, backlog refinement, and coordinating with PMO for delivery timelines and capacity planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical or engineering field OR equivalent work experience.
• Experience working with scrum teams with electrical, mechanical and embedded engineers
• Strong working knowledge of Agile methodologies and the Scrum framework.
• Hands‑on experience with Scrum and Agile tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, JAMA)
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills. Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional and distributed teams.
• Solid understanding of basic project management principles and practices.

Responsibilities

• Plan, facilitate, and lead all Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Ensure effective breakdown of work by guiding the decomposition of epics and stories into sub-stories, tasks, spikes, and other actionable items.
• Coach the team on Scrum principles and ensure consistent adherence to Agile processes, enabling a high-performing and self-organizing team.
• Ensure stories are properly progressed through all required workflow steps to maintain transparency and delivery momentum.
• Identify, remove, and elevate impediments that impact team productivity, while encouraging focus on committed sprint work.
• Partner with Development Managers to support effective planning, prioritization, and capacity management.
• Conduct retrospectives and facilitate continuous improvement initiatives based on team feedback and performance insights.
• Schedule and facilitate backlog grooming sessions to ensure readiness of upcoming work.
• Support the development of delivery timelines and schedules in collaboration with PMO, including capacity planning, resource loading, and forecasting.
• Assess resource capacity and proactively identify gaps or the need for additional resources; support resource balancing strategies as needed.
• Collaborate with clients and end users to clarify business requirements and ensure alignment with development output.
• Act as a liaison between development teams and product management to ensure project processes, governance, and delivery standards are followed.
• Monitor risks and delivery issues, escalating concerns beyond the development team when needed and driving resolution through appropriate management channels.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Scrum

Cross-functional collaboration

Facilitation

Communication

Conflict resolution

JIRA

Confluence

Smartsheet

JAMA

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related technical or engineering field

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Smartsheet

JAMA

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to coordinate the work of an Agile development team and support the end-to-end product development lifecycle. This role is responsible for planning, facilitating, and optimizing Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, backlog reviews, and retrospectives.

The Scrum Master partners closely with clients, end users, product management, and development leadership to ensure business requirements are well understood and Agile best practices are consistently applied. Acting as a servant leader, this role proactively identifies and removes impediments that may slow progress, while promoting continuous improvement to help the team meet delivery goals and milestones.

What you will do:

• Plan, facilitate, and lead all Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Ensure effective breakdown of work by guiding the decomposition of epics and stories into sub-stories, tasks, spikes, and other actionable items.
• Coach the team on Scrum principles and ensure consistent adherence to Agile processes, enabling a high-performing and self-organizing team.
• Ensure stories are properly progressed through all required workflow steps to maintain transparency and delivery momentum.
• Identify, remove, and elevate impediments that impact team productivity, while encouraging focus on committed sprint work.
• Partner with Development Managers to support effective planning, prioritization, and capacity management.
• Conduct retrospectives and facilitate continuous improvement initiatives based on team feedback and performance insights.
• Schedule and facilitate backlog grooming sessions to ensure readiness of upcoming work.
• Support the development of delivery timelines and schedules in collaboration with PMO, including capacity planning, resource loading, and forecasting.
• Assess resource capacity and proactively identify gaps or the need for additional resources; support resource balancing strategies as needed.
• Collaborate with clients and end users to clarify business requirements and ensure alignment with development output.
• Act as a liaison between development teams and product management to ensure project processes, governance, and delivery standards are followed.
• Monitor risks and delivery issues, escalating concerns beyond the development team when needed and driving resolution through appropriate management channels.

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What you will bring to Sogeti:

• Overall 10+ years’ experience with minimum 5+ years of related experience in Robotic / Embedded /Manufacturing environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical or engineering field OR equivalent work experience.
• Experience working with scrum teams with electrical, mechanical and embedded engineers
• Strong working knowledge of Agile methodologies and the Scrum framework.
• Hands‑on experience with Scrum and Agile tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, JAMA)
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills. Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional and distributed teams.
• Solid understanding of basic project management principles and practices.

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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Note:

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