Scrum Master (Houston, TX)

Cedent; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading oil and gas company in Houston, TX is seeking an Intermediate Scrum Master. The candidate will lead Agile teams, ensuring commitments are met and facilitating key ceremonies. Required experience includes 3-5 years in Agile teams and proficiency with MS Azure DevOps Boards. The role is contract-based, emphasizing local candidates familiar with the oil and gas domain.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years’ experience leading Agile teams.
• Proficiency with MS Azure DevOps Boards.

Responsibilities

• Encourages team to meet commitments and removes impediments.
• Facilitates team ceremonies for work execution and improvement.
• Implements effective backlog management and tracks status.

Skills

Agile Team Leadership

MS Azure DevOps Boards

Job description

Scrum Master - Intermediate

Need only local to Houston, TX | Oil & Gas mandatory

Description: Scrum Master for a Houston-based team supporting Windows Active Directory, PKI certificate servers, and other elements of the Client tier 0 security environment.

Daily Responsibilities

• Encourages team to make and meet execution commitments and removes impediments to the team.
• Encourages the team to establish and adhere to quality standards.
• Facilitates team ceremonies – Stand‑ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospectives to guide work execution & Continuous Improvement.
• Implements effective backlog management; keeps the status of all work up to date in the backlog through grooming to generate standard metrics to improve team performance.
• Collaborates with the Staff Development Manager, Product Owner, System Architect and Delivery Team to establish and update Working Agreements on execution plans, priorities, capacity, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done.
• Collaborates with Release Train Engineer in Scrum of Scrums and helps facilitate PI planning.
• Facilitates skills assessment activities (i.e. “Skills Bingo”) to ensure team is prepared for work commitments.
• Ensures Azure DevOps (ADO) Core Fields are completed.
• Incident Management – keeps track of aging tickets and helps team resolve incidents timely.
• Coordinates team‑building activities.

Required Experience

• 3-5 years’ experience leading Agile teams
• Proficiency with MS Azure DevOps Boards

Preferred Experience

• SAFe Scrum Master or Advanced Scrum Master Certification
• Infrastructure support or Windows engineering background

Department: Preferred Vendors

This is a contract position