Senior Scrum Master
Summit Companies · Mendota Heights, MN · 1 wk ago
Information TechnologyFull-time
About the role
The Senior Scrum Master will lead the Salesforce team in Agile practices to deliver high-quality solutions for a large-scale enterprise environment supporting 5,000+ users.
Responsibilities
- Lead Agile ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring consistent cadence, engagement, and continuous improvement.
- Facilitate backlog refinement sessions by partnering with IT leadership, business stakeholders, and vendors to ensure user stories are clearly defined, properly sized, and ready for development.
- Drive sprint execution by removing impediments, managing dependencies, and ensuring work progresses efficiently through the development lifecycle to meet sprint commitments.
- Act as a central point of coordination between internal teams and vendors to ensure alignment on priorities, scope, and delivery expectations.
- Ensure all work meets established Definition of Done standards, including testing, validation, and documentation, to support stable and scalable technology solutions.
- Coach team members on Agile best practices, MVP thinking, and iterative delivery while identifying opportunities to improve team performance, processes, and overall delivery quality.
Qualifications
- High school diploma, or equivalent, required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, or related field, preferred.
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent demonstrated Scrum Master experience, required.
- 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master leading Agile teams, with strong knowledge of Scrum principles, backlog refinement, and sprint execution, highly preferred.
- Experience supporting or working within Salesforce environments (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and/or Field Service), highly preferred.
- Hands-on experience managing work in Azure DevOps (or similar tools such as Jira), including Epics, User Stories, tasks, and sprint tracking, preferred.
- Proven ability to work effectively with business stakeholders, technical teams, and external vendors to align priorities and drive delivery outcomes.
- Strong ability to identify and remove impediments, manage competing priorities, and maintain focus on delivering high-quality, business-aligned outcomes.
- Experience supporting release management and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including testing, deployment support, and post-release validation in collaboration with technical teams, required.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into clear business language and effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office 365, Teams, and SharePoint for documentation and collaboration, required.
- Familiarity with Agile reporting and delivery metrics, including sprint burndown, velocity, throughput, and team capacity tracking, preferred.
- Understanding of Agile delivery frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid Agile methodologies, preferred.
- Experience supporting Agile delivery within complex enterprise platforms such as Salesforce and Oracle ERP/HCM environments, preferred.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, release coordination, and DevOps concepts in enterprise software delivery environments, preferred.
Other duties as assigned.
Pay
Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
Schedule
Full-time, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM.
Benefits
- Paid Vacation and Holidays
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Plan with Company Match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Long-Term Disability – Employer Paid
- Short-Term Disability – Employer Paid
- Additional Voluntary Ancillary Benefits such as Accident and Hospital Indemnity Life Insurance for Team Members and Dependents
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Referral Program