Senior Product Specialist
Boeing
Azure
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
Azure
About the role
- Organize and facilitate agile activities and ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and backlog refinement
- Ensure meetings are positive, productive, on-topic, and timeboxed
- Collaborate closely with the Product Owner to manage the backlog and value-based backlog slicing
- Coach team and Product Owner on empiricism and incremental delivery
- Track and radiate flow metrics (velocity, sprint burndown, iteration burn rate) and guide data-driven improvement
- Champion and facilitate adoption of agile standards, tools, and best practices
- Proactively identify and resolve impediments to team progress
- Promote empowered, self-organising teams, psychological safety, and collaborative decision-making
- Uphold Definition of Done, quality gates, and compliance with organizational standards
- Communicate with other Scrum Masters and Product Owners to ensure transparency into delivery progress, challenges, and risks
- Utilize team feedback and metrics to identify improvement opportunities and support continuous improvement
- Support the team in using agile planning and development tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Confluence)
- Experiment with new practices and frameworks and participate in communities of practice and conferences
- Contribute to the advancement and improvement of agile practices within the organization
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- A Master’s degree in a relevant field is a strong asset
- At least 10 years of relevant experience (including any completed Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degrees)
- At least 3 years of dedicated experience working as a Scrum Master at SM2 level or above
- Possession of Scrum Master certifications: PSM II (or higher) and SAFe 5/6 Agilist
- Experience leading at least 2 production teams through full sprint cycles (planning, review, retrospective, and refinement)
- Experience implementing data-driven continuous improvement initiatives (e.g., increasing team velocity or reducing lead time)
- Experience coordinating cross-team work via Scrum-of-Scrums or PI Planning events
- Experience with one or more scaled Agile frameworks (SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, etc.)
- Experience supporting Agile transformations or change initiatives within medium to large organizations
- Tool proficiency in Azure DevOps (preferred) or Jira (acceptable), particularly in backlog management, dashboards, and workflow configuration
- Deep knowledge of the Scrum Guide and Agile Manifesto principles and values
- Good knowledge of facilitation techniques (e.g., Fist of Five, participatory decision-making, Liberating Structures)
- Good knowledge of systems-thinking and process tailoring to fit complex or evolving environments
- Good knowledge of team motivation and stakeholder engagement
- Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the EU
- Candidates must be able to provide a recent certificate of good conduct (no older than 3 months)
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken
