Scrum Master

Facilitate Agile ceremonies: standups sprint planning backlog refinement retrospectives and reviews with preparation cleartime-boxing anda consistentbias toward outcomes over process.

Build the trust and psychological safety that makes retrospectives honest and improvement actions credible.

Shift sprint planning from in-meeting discovery to in-meeting alignment by doing the administrative and readiness work including ticket review agenda setting and Jira cleanup.

Maintain backlog health: ensure work is properly categorized sized structured and ready for commitment before it enters a sprint.

Apply and reinforce standardized ticket structures: consistent issue types field usage user story and acceptance criteria formats spike success criteria bug reproduction steps.

Track analyze and communicate sprint metrics including velocity rollover trends and estimated versus actual effort; surface patterns that improve planning accuracy over time.

Facilitate root-cause analysis of blockers and rollover; ensure carryover discussions result in specific corrective actions.

Identifyand actively pursue impediments that cross team boundaries escalating to the Agile Practice Lead when resolution requires broader organizational action.

Contribute to overall delivery standards by sharing what is working flagging what is not and helping build the playbooks and templates thatbenefitall teams.

Prior experience as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead supporting cross-functional product or technology teams.

The interpersonal skills to build trust quickly on teams that may be skeptical fatigued or in conflict. You know that facilitation is only as effective as the relationships beneath it.

Strong Jira skills: backlog management workflow configuration automation dashboard and reporting development and the discipline to keep data clean and meaningful.

Comfortoperatingacross multiple teams simultaneously including managing schedule complexity and adapting your approach to teams at different maturity levels.

A diagnostic mindset: you notice patterns ask good questions and distinguish between a team problem a process problem and an organizational problem before deciding how to respond.

Experience standing up or scaling Agile practices in maturing organizations.

Experience supporting technology data or platform teams where delivery involves significant cross-team dependencies and technical complexity.

Demonstrated ability to create durable templates guides and operating standards.

Experience working within a structured Agile practice under apracticelead or within a center of excellence where craft standards are set at a level above the individual team.