IT - Consultant | Cloud Platform | Azure API Gateway

Job Title: Senior Scum Master

Location: Raleigh, NC 27601 (Onsite - Hybrid)

Duration: 12+ months

Job Description:

Must Have Skills:
? SAFe
? Senior Scrum Master Leadership
? Scrum & Kanban
? Improved Sprint & PI Predictability
? DevOps & CI/CD
? Azure DevOps

Nice to Have Skills:
? JIRA
? Rally
? VersionOne
? Azure DevOps

Detailed Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced SAFe Senior Scrum Master to lead Agile delivery for distributed Scrum teams and support Agile Release Train execution in a large-scale enterprise environment. The ideal candidate will be a servant-leader with strong experience in improving sprint and PI predictability, resolving cross-team blockers, enabling Agile maturity, and driving continuous improvement across teams. The role requires strong facilitation skills, stakeholder engagement, Agile metrics-based reporting, and the ability to coach teams and Product Owners on Agile best practices.

Key Responsibilities
? Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, Retrospective, PI Planning, and Inspect & Adapt sessions.
? Support SAFe / ART-level execution, including PI objectives, risks, dependencies, and cross-team coordination.
? Improve sprint predictability, PI predictability, velocity trends, cycle time, burndown, and delivery health through effective metrics tracking and reporting.
? Remove impediments, resolve dependencies, and proactively manage blockers impacting team delivery.
? Coach Scrum teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile mindset, Scrum principles, backlog readiness, estimation, and INVEST-based story development.
? Drive transparency through dashboards, information radiators, Agile reporting, and stakeholder communication.
? Partner with business and technology stakeholders to support release planning, scope alignment, and value-driven delivery.
? Promote team self-organization, accountability, psychological safety, continuous learning, and sustainable delivery practices.
? Support DevOps adoption and collaborate with teams to improve release reliability through CI/CD practices.

Required Skills
? Strong hands-on experience as a Scrum Master / Senior Scrum master's in enterprise Agile delivery.
? Practical experience with SAFe framework, Agile Release Trains, PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, risks, dependencies, and PI objectives.
? Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Agile metrics, release execution, and program-level delivery tracking.
? Experience improving delivery outcomes using metrics such as velocity, cycle time, burndown, flow, sprint predictability, and program predictability.
? Strong experience with Agile tools such as JIRA, Rally, VersionOne, or Azure DevOps.
? Ability to work with distributed teams and manage cross-functional collaboration across business, product, development, QA, and DevOps teams.
? Excellent communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, coaching, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications
? SAFe Scrum Master certification preferred.
? Professional Scrum Master certification preferred.
? Experience in regulated, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, insurance, or large-scale transformation environments is an advantage.
? Prior experience supporting DevOps / CI-CD adoption and improving release reliability is preferred.
? Minimum Years of Experience: 8+ years

Certifications Needed:
? SAFe Scrum Master and PSM II certifications

Interview Process (Is face to face required?)
? Virtual