Senior Scrum Master

We are looking for a Senior Scrum Master to act as a Release Train Engineer, guiding large-scale Agile teams through complex projects while ensuring alignment, transparency, and continuous improvement across all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Serve as RTE for 17-20 teams (250-300 people) using Agile methodology and scrum practices
• Facilitate PI Planning sessions
• Raise, track, communicate and escalates risks
• Maintain deep involvement in team's and project's day to day activities
• Remove blockers and coach the team to eliminate impediments
• Collect and report on metrics
• Facilitate meetings and ensure their effectiveness
• Manage scope and work closely with product owners to ensure backlog health
• Manage stakeholders and their expectations
• Ensure customer satisfaction
• Resolve conflicts and issues as they occur
• Support the scrum team in achieving higher levels of scrum maturity
• Provide coaching and training to the team where needed
• Maintain communication with various levels of stakeholders

Requirements

• 10+ years of prior experience as RTE managing 10+ teams with complex dependencies
• Knowledge of and experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Sense of ownership and responsibility as a team-player
• Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills
• Ability to adapt to changing environments
• Self-motivation and ability to stay focused amid distraction
• Ability to analyze and think quicklyAbility to prevent and resolve conflicts and misunderstandings
• Knowledge of techniques to fill in gaps in the Agile/Scrum framework
• Experience with successful Agile techniques
• Working knowledge of Jira
• Proficiency in AI
• Advanced proficiency in English (C1+)

Nice to have

• Prior experience in financial services
• Prior experience in a project or company that went through Agile transformation, with direct involvement in the process
• Working knowledge of Aha! and Easy Agile