EPMA

Senior Scrum Master

EPMA

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Houston • Texas • United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Establish and reinforce effective sprint cadence, timeboxing, and team operating rhythm
  • Coach business leads, team members, and stakeholders on Scrum roles, ceremonies, and agile ways of working
  • Help teams translate business work into clear backlog items, user stories, and acceptance criteria
  • Keep teams focused on incremental outcomes rather than reverting to traditional project and deliverable-based habits
  • Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
  • Identify and escalate impediments, risks, and delivery drift that affect sprint performance and team progress
  • Support multiple capability cluster teams as they work toward defined business capabilities and measurable outcomes
  • Partner with Operational Excellence leadership and program governance to maintain alignment across teams
  • Promote continuous improvement through inspection, adaptation, and stronger execution discipline
  • Help create consistency in how teams plan, execute, and evaluate work across the program

Requirements

  • Experience serving as a Scrum Master in agile environments
  • Strong knowledge of Scrum principles, lifecycle, and ceremonies
  • Demonstrated ability to facilitate planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and sprint execution
  • Experience coaching teams or stakeholders who are new to agile ways of working
  • Strong communication, facilitation, and organizational skills
  • Ability to enforce timeboxes, maintain sprint discipline, and keep teams focused on outcomes
  • Experience helping teams break work into clear user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Ability to work effectively across business stakeholders, delivery teams, and program leadership
Benefits
  • Strong client results and company growth focused on personal growth for every employee
  • Regular reviews and measurable development plans
  • On-the-job learning
  • Professional development programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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

Hard Skills & Tools
ScrumAgile methodologiesBacklog refinementUser storiesAcceptance criteriaSprint planningSprint executionRetrospectivesIncremental outcomesImpediment identification
Soft Skills
CoachingCommunicationFacilitationOrganizational skillsTeam collaborationStakeholder engagementContinuous improvementAdaptationExecution disciplineFocus on outcomes