Senior Scrum Master | Lean-Agile Coach & Delivery Lead

First American Trust, F.S.B.

Santa Ana (CA)

Remote

USD 112,000 - 150,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401k

PTO/paid sick leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

First American Trust, F.S.B. in California seeks an experienced Senior Scrum Master to enable Lean-Agile delivery across software teams. You will coach teams, facilitate Scrum ceremonies, and remove impediments to improve predictability and value.

The role requires CSM/SAFe Advanced and Jira proficiency, offering a comprehensive benefits package and on-site work in Santa Ana, CA. The Senior Scrum Master will partner with Product Owners, Delivery Teams, and leadership to strengthen Agile

Qualifications

5-7 years of experience applying Scrum and Agile methods as scrum master of an agile software delivery team.
Certified ScrumMaster or SAFe Advanced Scrum Master certification is required.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, or related fields.

Responsibilities

Facilitate and drive effective Scrum and Agile events, including daily sync, backlog refinement, iteration planning, iteration reviews, and retrospectives.
Ensure events are purposeful, well prepared, inclusive, and result in clear decisions, actions, or improvement commitments.
Coach teams in Scrum, Kanban, Lean-Agile principles, self-organization, collaboration, continuous improvement, and effective delivery practices.
Build a safe, trusting, and inclusive team environment where concerns can be raised openly and addressed through problem solving.
Partner with Product Owners to improve backlog health, prioritization, refinement, sprint readiness, PI Planning readiness and alignment to customer and business outcomes.
Help teams establish meaningful sprint goals and improve delivery predictability, quality, flow, and accountability.
Independently identify, understand, track, escalate, and help remove impediments, risks, dependencies, and organizational barriers.
Lead structured problem-solving conversations that help teams and stakeholders address the causes of delivery challenges.
Protect the team from unnecessary interruptions while maintaining appropriate transparency with stakeholders and leadership.
Use Jira and other Agile tools to maintain accurate delivery information and communicate relevant metrics, trends, risks, dependencies, and progress.
Use delivery metrics to support transparency, learning, and improvement rather than individual performance evaluation.
Facilitate retrospectives that produce meaningful, documented improvement actions and coach team to follow through on those commitments.
Coordinate with engineering leaders, managers, architects, business partners, and other Scrum Masters to resolve cross-team challenges.
Represent the team in Coach Sync, ART Sync, and other ART-level coordination events.
Help teams prepare for and participate effectively in PI Planning, including readiness, planning inputs, objectives, dependencies, risks, and commitments.
Collaborate with other Senior Scrum Masters and Agile practitioners to share effective practices, lessons learned, facilitation techniques, and approaches for improving team and organizational agility.
Contribute to the Lean-Agile Office’s business agility roadmap and the continued evolution of First American Trust’s Agile operating model.
Demonstrate servant leadership, situational awareness, emotional intelligence adaptability, and a growth mindset.