Sprint Lead MSM Level

Sprint Lead Job Description

Responsibilities:

Facilitate all Agile ceremonies including Daily Scrum Sprint Planning Backlog Refinement

Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives etc. ensuring consistent cadence clear objectives and strong

team engagement.

Partner with Architects Business Leads Data Leads Developers and Testers to create refine

and maintain a highquality sprint backlog composed of welldefined user stories acceptance

criteria and tasks aligned to business and technical value.

Provide coaching and guidance to Agile teams and delivery leaders on Agile principles and

practices across SAFe Scrum and Kanban frameworks.

Drive continuous improvement by identifying and removing impediments optimizing team flow

and reinforcing Agile best practices that enhance delivery predictability and overall team

performance.

Increase Agile maturity across teams by fostering a culture of transparency collaboration

accountability and datadriven decision making.

Track analyze and communicate team performance metrics to stakeholders using tools such as

Jira dashboards and Power BI for visibility and progress reporting.

Coordinate crossteam dependencies aligning sprint goals across product engineering QA and

business stakeholders to ensure smooth and predictable delivery cycles.

Act as the primary escalation point for sprintlevel risks blockers and scope concerns driving

timely resolution through collaboration with leaders and support teams.

Strengthen relationships with product technical and business partners through consistent

communication expectation setting and alignment on sprint priorities.

Champion Agile delivery discipline within hybrid distributed and multitimezone teams to

maintain consistency effectiveness and highquality delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

X-YY years of relevant experience in Agile delivery roles (Scrum Master Sprint Lead Release

Train Engineer or Agile Project Manager) with at least Z years facilitating Agile ceremonies in a

complex multiteam environment.

Demonstrated expertise in SAFe Scrum and Kanban methodologies with prior experience

coaching teams and leaders to improve Agile maturity.

Strong facilitation skills with the ability to guide discussions resolve conflicts and drive

alignment across technical and business stakeholders.

Handson experience with Agile delivery tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps including creating

dashboards managing sprint boards and supporting backlog refinement.

Experience leveraging analytics and Agile metrics (velocity burndown flow metrics etc.) to

enhance performance identify bottlenecks and support continuous improvement.

Ability to thrive in fastchanging ambiguous environments with a strong bias for action and a

commitment to driving clarity prioritization and delivery focus.

Excellent communication interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to influence

without authority.

Demonstrated ability to balance multiple workstreams manage crossteam dependencies and

coordinate across distributed or hybrid teams.

Prior experience supporting digital transformation or cloudrelated delivery initiatives is a plus.

Agile certifications preferred (e.g. CSM SAFe Scrum Master SAFe Practitioner PMI-ACP) but

not required.