Scrum Master – Enterprise Data Management

Jobtailor; Connecticut; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United States (Connecticut) seeks an experienced Scrum Master to enable effective, predictable, and value-focused delivery across Enterprise Data Management teams. You will partner with Product Owners, Engineering Leaders, and stakeholders to ensure work is understood and ready for execution.

Responsibilities include facilitating all Scrum ceremonies, coaching teams on Agile principles, maintaining transparency, and removing impediments to improve delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required; Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Highest level of education may be substituted with 2 years of additional experience in lieu of a Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience serving as a Scrum Master in a cross-functional Agile delivery environment.
• Hands-on Scrum Master experience required; certification-only exposure not sufficient.

Responsibilities

• Enable effective, predictable, and value-focused delivery across Enterprise Data Management scrum teams by bringing together Agile discipline, facilitation, coaching, and delivery visibility.
• Partner closely with Product Owners, Engineering Leaders, Tech Leads, team members, and business stakeholders to ensure work is well understood, prioritized, and ready for execution.
• Establish, schedule, and facilitate Scrum ceremonies (Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Tasking, Daily Scrum, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective) with clear purpose and outcomes.
• Coach and influence teams to adopt Agile principles, practices, and behaviors to improve team effectiveness and delivery outcomes.
• Maintain visibility into team commitments, progress, blockers, dependencies, and risks for informed decision-making.
• Identify and remove impediments impacting flow and delivery, stepping beyond traditional role boundaries when necessary.
• Drive retrospective action follow-through and continuous improvement, using metrics to identify trends and opportunities.

Skills

Agile Methodologies

Scrum Practices

Delivery Visibility

Dependency Management

Risk Identification

Capacity Planning

Forecasting

Continuous Improvement

Team Execution

Backlog Refinement

Education

High School Diploma

Bachelor's degree preferred

Job description

• • Enable effective, predictable, and value-focused delivery across Enterprise Data Management scrum teams by bringing together Agile discipline, facilitation, coaching, and delivery visibility.
• • Partner closely with Product Owners, Engineering Leaders, Tech Leads, team members, and business stakeholders to ensure work is well understood, appropriately prioritized, and ready for execution.
• • Establish, schedule, and facilitate Scrum ceremonies as needed, including Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Tasking, Daily Scrum, Sprint Demo, and Sprint Retrospective, ensuring each has clear purpose, participation, and outcomes.
• • Coach and influence teams to adopt Agile principles, practices, and behaviors that improve team effectiveness, delivery outcomes, and organizational consistency.
• • Establish and reinforce Agile standards and team agreements, including Definitions of Ready and Done, while adapting practices to fit team maturity, context, and organizational expectations.
• • Enable strong team ownership, accountability, and self-organization by reinforcing transparency, alignment, and shared responsibility for delivery.
• • Maintain clear visibility into team commitments, progress, blockers, dependencies, and risks to support informed decision-making across the team and stakeholders.
• • Identify, surface, and actively help remove impediments impacting flow, focus, or the team’s ability to deliver value, stepping beyond traditional role boundaries when necessary to help the team succeed.
• • Drive follow-through on retrospective actions and continuous improvement efforts, providing actionable feedback to improve team effectiveness.
• • Use metrics and delivery insights to identify trends, uncover opportunities for improvement, and drive better team effectiveness, predictability, and outcomes.
• • Facilitate alignment with other Scrum Masters and stakeholders when dependencies, sequencing, or shared deliverables require coordination.
• • Help teams navigate ambiguity, identify gaps in thinking, facilitate timely decisions, and drive clarity across competing priorities, ownership concerns, and delivery challenges.
• • Support delivery planning and operational activities, including forecasting, capacity planning, PI Planning, transition-to-maintenance efforts, and ensuring required artifacts are completed and maintained.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required; Bachelor's degree preferred.
• High School Diploma/GED plus 2 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience serving as a Scrum Master in a cross-functional Agile delivery environment.
• Hands-on Scrum Master experience required. Certification-only exposure is not sufficient for this role.
• Experience supporting technology teams required.
• Strong working knowledge of Agile and Scrum principles, practices, and team-level execution.
• Experience supporting delivery visibility, planning, dependency management, risk identification, and impediment removal.
• Strong facilitation, communication, stakeholder partnership, and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to build effective partnerships across engineering, product, business, and leadership stakeholders, including Product Owners, Tech Leads, Engineering Leaders, and business partners.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, dynamic environments and navigating ambiguity with sound judgment and follow-through.
• Ability to think critically, ask thoughtful questions, challenge assumptions constructively, and recommend practical improvements to team processes and delivery practices.
• Comfortable working with full-time employees, vendor resources, and offshore team members.

Demonstrates extensive experience as a Scrum Master, facilitating Agile practices and ceremonies while ensuring effective delivery and team accountability. Proficient in stakeholder partnership, risk management, and continuous improvement to enhance team performance and delivery outcomes.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Scrum Master Experience
• Agile Principles
• Facilitation Skills
• Stakeholder Partnership
• Impediment Removal

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Scrum Practices
• Delivery Visibility
• Dependency Management
• Risk Identification
• Capacity Planning
• Forecasting
• Continuous Improvement
• Team Execution
• Backlog Refinement

Soft Skills

• Communication Skills
• Conflict Resolution
• Critical Thinking
• Partnership Building
• Navigating Ambiguity

Industry Keywords

• Cross-Functional Teams
• Team Ownership
• Self-Organization
• Scrum Ceremonies
• Delivery Outcomes