Scrum Master
EmpiRx Health
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Drive Delivery & Flow (Primary Focus)
- Ensure that teams consistently deliver value within two-week sprints (or Kanban flow, where applicable).
- Facilitate daily progress tracking and promptly identify and resolve blockers.
- Assist teams in forecasting, planning, and executing work with precision and accountability.
- Promote flow metrics such as cycle time, lead time, velocity, and WIP limits to enhance performance.
- Collaborate regularly with functional managers to ensure shared understanding, alignment, and execution of Product and leadership initiatives.
- Azure DevOps (ADO) Excellence
- Own the team’s ADO hygiene and workflow practices: Ensure backlog clarity and readiness, working with the Product Owner.
- Facilitate sprint planning helping the team set goals each sprint on the value they plan to deliver.
- Board configuration and WIP visibility
- Keep the team’s dashboard update to communicate goals and progress.
- Ensure that every team’s work is visible, actionable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
- Guide teams in utilizing dashboards, queries, analytics views, widgets, and sprint reviews to increase transparency and learning.
- Facilitate Core Agile Ceremonies
- Lead sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews (with Product Owner), and retrospectives with a focus on outcomes, not rituals.
- Drive retrospectives that produce measurable improvements, not generic action items.
- Coach Product Owners and teams to improve backlog quality and goal clarity.
- Improve Team Practices & Predictability
- Help teams adopt consistent sprint cadences, review structures, and goal-setting practices that tie directly to value delivery.
- Identify delivery bottlenecks and implement practical solutions (process, communication, tooling).
- Establish team norms aligned with enterprise-level agile standards and templates.
- Support Organizational Agile Maturity
- Collaborate with other Scrum Masters and Agile Leaders to ensure consistency across teams.
- Provide mentorship to newer teams or teams with limited Agile experience, emphasizing practical application and the effectiveness of Agile methodologies in enhancing delivery rather than theoretical concepts.
- Help scale patterns that create transparency, accountability, and flow.
- Strengthen Visibility Across the Organization
- Ensure all sprint reviews follow the standardized structure, cadence, and publishing of assets.
- Build trust with leadership by providing concise reporting on progress, risks, capacity, and delivery velocity.
- Ensure that teams are consistently visible, eliminating the notion that their activities are unknown.
Requirements
- 7 + years working as a Scrum Master in a software engineering environment.
- Strong working knowledge of Azure DevOps boards, dashboards, queries, analytics views, and project structures.
- Proven track record of improving delivery performance in real teams.
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate, influence, and coach without authority.
- Strong understanding of Agile practices (Scrum / Kanban) with the ability to apply them pragmatically.
- Excellent communication, clarity, and problem-solving skills.
Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- a 401(k) program
- Health Insurance including Dental & Vision coverage
- Student Loan Reimbursement
- Health Savings Account
- Employee Assistance Program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Agile practicesScrumKanbandelivery performance improvementbacklog managementgoal settingsprint planningretrospectivesforecastingWIP limits
Soft Skills
facilitationinfluencecoachingcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationmentorshipaccountabilitytransparencytrust building