Sr. Scrum Master
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Job description
As a Sr. Scrum Master, you will: Lead all Scrum ceremonies:
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Sprint Planning
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Quarterly planning
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Daily Stand ups (Daily Scrum)
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Sprint Review (Demo)
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Sprint Retrospective
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Resource capacity tracking and forecast
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Ensure adherence to Scrum framework and Agile principles
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Facilitate backlog refinement (grooming) with Product Owners
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Support empirical process control (inspect and adapt)
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Manage sprint execution and track progress against goals
Monitor delivery using Agile metrics:
- Velocity
- Sprint burndown/burnup
- Cycle time / throughput
- Identify and remove team impediments and blockers
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies and risks
Technical Enablement:
- Understand system architecture, APIs, integrations, and dependencies
- Help teams assess technical feasibility and complexity during planning
- Support technical discussions
Assist with identifying and managing:
- Technical debt
- Environment and infrastructure issues
- Release and deployment risks
- Software/Hardware End of Life management
- Vulnerability Management effort tracking and prioritization
- Partner with Product Owners on backlog prioritization
- Engage engineering leads and architects on delivery risks
- Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes to leadership
- Shield the team from distractions and unplanned work
- Coach teams on Agile and Scrum practices
- Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives
- Promote self-organization and accountability within teams
Requirements
- Scrum (primary)
- Kanban (flow-based work management)
- Scrum of Scrums
Agile Delivery Tools:
- Jira (boards, backlog, sprint tracking, reporting)
- Confluence (documentation, retrospectives, knowledge base)
- SharePoint o MS Office and Teams expertise
- Sprint-based delivery (time-boxed iterations)
- Backlog management and refinement
- Definition of Ready (DoR) / Definition of Done (DoD)
- Story sizing (Planning Poker, Fibonacci estimation)
- Incremental and iterative delivery
- Agile SDLC workflow
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent
- Experience with enterprise platforms (cloud, data platforms, DevOps environments)
Good to have:
- Prior engineering, QA, or development background
- Experience in large-scale enterprise or multi-team delivery environments
Benefits & conditions
Benefits: Innova Solutions offers benefits( based on eligibility) that include the following: Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).