Scrum Master

• Organize and facilitate agile activities and ceremonies including daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and product backlog refinement sessions;
• Ensure that all meetings are positive, productive, stay on topic, and are kept within the timebox;
• Collaborate closely with the product owner to manage the backlog;
• Coach team and Product Owner on empiricism, value‑based backlog slicing, and incremental delivery;
• Track and radiate flow metrics (velocity, sprint burndown, iteration burn rate) and guide the team in 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, shared vision, psychological safety, collaborative decisions (e.g., Fist‑of‑Five);
• Uphold Definition of Done, quality gates, and compliance with organisational standards;
• Communicate with other SCRUM masters and product owners across the organization to ensure transparency into delivery progress, challenges, and risks;
• Utilize team feedback and metrics (e.g., quality, delivery, cadence, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and work with team to continuously improve;
• Support the team in using agile planning and development tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Confluence);
• Experiment with new practices and frameworks to improve team outcomes;
• Actively participate in learning opportunities such as communities of practice or conferences to improve skills and better support the team;
• Contribute to the advancement and improvement of agile practices within the organization.

Scrum Master – Information Technology, Software

Scrum Master – 18 Month FTC