Senior Scrum Master

About the role

The Senior Scrum Master role is responsible for guiding and coaching teams on Agile practices, facilitating team alignment, maintaining delivery flow, and driving continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate daily team alignment through stand-ups, ensuring progress, risks, and blockers are surfaced.
• Maintain delivery flow using Scrum or Kanban practices, including monitoring WIP limits and cycle time.
• Partner with the Product Owner to ensure a clear, prioritized, and groomed backlog.
• Remove impediments by coordinating with cross-functional teams, leadership, and support groups.
• Coach teams on Agile practices like Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban to improve delivery predictability.
• Maintain transparency through clean boards, dashboards, and proactive stakeholder communication.
• Drive continuous improvement through feedback loops, observations, and retrospectives.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and issues effectively.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum practices including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives.
• Proficiency with Jira for backlog management, dashboards, and metrics tracking.
• Understanding of DevOps fundamentals, quality practices, and the Definition of Done.
• Ability to leverage flow metrics such as cycle time, WIP, and throughput to drive improvements.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills across cross-functional teams.
• Servant leadership mindset with a focus on coaching and impediment removal.
• Strong problem-solving, adaptability, and stakeholder management skills.
• Leadership and coaching experience across distributed teams.
• Experience with executive status reporting using tools like PowerPoint and Excel.
• Familiarity with Jira Align for enterprise planning and multi-team coordination.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with scaled Agile frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, or Nexus.
• Strong influencing skills and the ability to build partnerships across teams without formal authority.
• Experience with Jira Align for enterprise planning and multi-team coordination.
• Experience working in regulated industries, such as financial services, and within compliance frameworks.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, and modern engineering practices.
• Ability to connect team delivery with business outcomes and product metrics.
• Prefered certifications: PSM II, A-CSM, SASM, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF, KMP, or equivalent.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans, an ESPP (employee stock purchase program), a 401K program with a company match, a Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan, a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program, and other discounts. Professional development includes an on-demand training program, access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars, and certification discounts and other perks to associations like CompTIA and IIBA. For additional information, refer to the 'Welcome Packet' provided by an Everforth Apex team member.

Pay

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Schedule

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