Senior Scrum Master - Agile Coach & Delivery Lead

infini-tek; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

infini-tek seeks a Scrum Master/Sr. Scrum Master to coach, mentor, and facilitate agile practices within a cross-functional team.

You will lead sprint planning, removal of impediments, and foster high-performing team dynamics, driving continuous improvement and on-time delivery of sprint goals and PI objectives. The role emphasizes collaboration with Product Owners and Managers, supporting release planning, tracking metrics like velocity and burn-down, and coordinating across teams to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field
• 5 years of IT work experience and 1 year of scrum execution in an IT or software development setting
• Knowledge of multiple agile development methodologies and frameworks
• Understanding of the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• Leading teams
• PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe, or equivalent certification preferred
• Experience using agile tools, including Jira, Jira Align, and Confluence
• Scrum, ScaledAgile, experience

Responsibilities

• Plans, leads, organizes, and coaches one or more cross-functional teams on how to implement and improve Agile practices
• Leads the coordination and facilitation of sprint planning and task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review and retrospectives
• Acts as a primary communication hub between program and product management teams and the application development team to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time
• Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution by encouraging transparency and building trust among team members
• Works with Product Owners and Managers to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution
• Partners with program and release managers in production deployment activities
• Leads the development, analysis, tracking, and communication of team's agile adoption and progress metrics, including velocity, burn-down, cycle time, and other quality metrics
• Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team
• Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner, and other scrum teams
• Manages and resolves dependencies across scrum teams
• Works with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog health and prepared for execution
• Drives cross-functional projects of medium to complex projects
• Coaches the agile team on user story sizing and acceptance criteria definition
• Coaching the team on how to implement and improve its Agile practices
• Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities
• Works with other Scrum Masters in coordinating scrum-of-scrum activities across teams.

Skills

Leading teams

Jira

Jira Align

Confluence

PMI-ACP

CSM

SAFe

Agile tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Systems/Business Administration

Tools

Jira

Jira Align

Confluence

Job description

infini-tek seeks a Scrum Master/Sr. Scrum Master to coach, mentor, and facilitate agile practices within a cross-functional team.

You will lead sprint planning, removal of impediments, and foster high-performing team dynamics, driving continuous improvement and on-time delivery of sprint goals and PI objectives. The role emphasizes collaboration with Product Owners and Managers, supporting release planning, tracking metrics like velocity and burn-down, and coordinating across teams to ensure