Alignment Health

Senior Scrum Master

Alignment Health

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $98,550 - $147,825 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Azure.NET

About the role

  • Serve as Scrum Master for multiple concurrent Scrum or Kanban teams, ensuring Agile principles are understood and practiced consistently.
  • Facilitate all core Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
  • Coach teams on story sizing, flow efficiency, definition of ready/done, and iterative delivery.
  • Drive continuous improvement and team performance through metrics such as throughput, cycle time, WIP, team capacity, and predictability.
  • Partner with Product Owners to ensure backlogs are prioritized, decomposed, and delivery-ready.
  • Provide hands-on coaching to engineers, product managers, and leaders to strengthen Agile mindset and practices.
  • Support cross-team coordination, dependency management, and enterprise planning activities.
  • Champion a culture of psychological safety, empowerment, accountability, and transparency.
  • Collaborate with DevOps and engineering leads to advance CI/CD automation, pipeline optimization, and shift-left quality practices.
  • Understand team workflows within .NET development environments, Azure DevOps, and GitHub to ensure smooth execution of sprints and releases.
  • Partner with engineering managers to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and systemic issues affecting delivery performance.
  • Communicate project risks, dependencies, and progress updates to leadership and stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead, or Agile Coach.
  • Proven experience managing multiple Agile teams in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong familiarity with .NET development, modern software engineering workflows, and DevOps practices.
  • Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, and CI/CD pipeline practices.
  • Deep understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP) and the ability to apply them pragmatically.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive measurable improvements in team performance.
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, and servant-leadership skills.
  • Effective at coaching teams at varying levels of Agile maturity.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development opportunities

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
ScrumKanbanAgileCI/CDDevOps.NETstory sizingflow efficiencymetricsAgile frameworks
Soft skills
communicationfacilitationconflict resolutionservant-leadershipcoachingempowermentaccountabilitytransparencypsychological safetycollaboration