Location: Blue Ash, OH Salary: $65.00 USD Hourly – $75.00 USD Hourly Description: Our client is currently seeking a Senior Scrum Master
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience serving as a Scrum Master within large-scale enterprise environments.
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams in roles such as Software Development, Quality Assurance, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or Agile Coaching.
- Experience with Agile frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban, and a strong understanding of Agile principles, values, and software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices.
- Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and supporting cross-functional teams through complex technology implementations.
- Experience managing multiple Agile teams and coordinating across business, technology, and program management stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong coaching and servant leadership skills with a proven ability to develop high-performing teams.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills across all organizational levels.
- Ability to understand technical concepts and effectively communicate Agile practices to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and time management skills.
- Experience driving continuous improvement through metrics, retrospectives, and data-driven decision-making.
- Ability to foster team accountability, collaboration, innovation, and self-organization in fast-paced environments.
About the Job
As a Scrum Master supporting Supply Chain Data initiatives, you will serve as a servant leader and Agile coach for cross-functional teams delivering complex technology solutions. You will facilitate Agile practices, remove delivery impediments, and help teams achieve sustainable, high-quality outcomes. You will partner closely with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and technical teams to promote transparency, continuous improvement, and effective program execution across large-scale enterprise initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead and facilitate Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning activities.
- Coach, mentor, and motivate teams to improve Agile maturity, team effectiveness, and delivery performance.
- Remove obstacles and proactively address risks that may impact team commitments, timelines, or quality objectives.
- Partner with Product Owners to support backlog refinement, prioritization, and effective delivery planning.
- Foster a psychologically safe environment where team members can openly discuss challenges, resolve conflicts, and collaborate effectively.
- Facilitate decision-making, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional coordination across multiple teams and programs.
- Monitor and communicate team progress, delivery metrics, and key performance indicators to leadership and stakeholders.
- Participate in Scrum of Scrums and collaborate with other Scrum Masters to address dependencies and improve program outcomes.
- Ensure adherence to Agile SDLC practices, team working agreements, tools, standards, and best practices.
- Promote Agile principles including transparency, accountability, collaboration, prioritization, and continuous improvement.
- Enable teams to self-organize, make realistic commitments, and consistently deliver business value.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives through retrospectives, performance analysis, and iterative process enhancements.
- Support an environment of innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence across Supply Chain Data programs.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available to qualified candidates who meet eligibility requirements.