Scrum Master - Local to Houston TX

Spring, TX, US • Posted 11 hours ago • Updated 11 hours ago
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Skills

  • Scrum Master
  • Scrum Master Certification
  • ADO
  • ServiceNow
  • Agile

Summary

Responsibilities:
Promotes Flow and Delivery Excellence
  • Owns execution and dependency management within and across teams, proactively escalating and motivating the team to resolve blockers.
  • Collaborates with Product Owners, Architects, and Project Managers to align on priorities and delivery risks.
  • Analyzes bottlenecks using tools like Value Stream Mapping, Cumulative Flow Diagrams, and Dependency Management to improve throughput.
  • Has decision rights to raise and address team capacity constraints to ensure sustainable delivery.
Stewards' Iteration Execution
  • Drives consistent and prioritised work intake aligned with team capacity and PI objectives.
  • Ensures all work is visible in ADO with high data quality, clear acceptance criteria, and traceability by holding team accountable.
  • Owns Agile ceremony outcomes (daily stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives) and team engagement.
  • Provides timely and insightful status updates to stakeholders, promoting transparency and trust.
Champions Continuous Improvement
  • Encourages the team to own implementation of retrospective action items and tracks their impact.
  • Proactively interprets delivery metrics to identify flow improvement opportunities and owns their implementation.
Builds a High-Performing Agile Team
  • Strengthens relationships with stakeholders, including Product Owners, Project Managers, and Architects, to align on goals and execution.
  • Promotes psychological safety and fosters a collaborative, inclusive team culture.
  • Coaches the team in Agile mindset, principles, and practices, tailored to their maturity level.
  • Conducts skills and maturity assessments to ensure team is equipped to deliver on demand.
Leads PI Planning Preparation and Execution
  • Has sufficient domain knowledge to guide accurate work estimation and planning.
  • Ensures dependencies and risks are understood, identified, incorporated, and managed throughout the PI cycle.
  • Collaborates with RTEs, Product Owners, and Project Managers in PI planning events to align across teams and projects.
Operational Excellence and Role Stewardship
  • Maintains team tools and artifact storage (e.g., SharePoint, Compass, ADO) and encourages the team to create and update artifacts as needed to support visibility and governance.
  • Ensures that core ADO fields are completed, and the backlog is groomed regularly to support technical excellence measured through quality metrics.
  • Leads & coordinates incident management & operational change management.
  • Participates in Communities of Practice and mentoring programs to share knowledge and grow expertise.
  • Stays current with continuing education in the P&P Job Family and contributes to role evolution.
Top 3 skills:
  1. Solid knowledge of Agile processes, working proficiency with ADO, and familiarity with ServiceNow
  2. Assertive and able to provide constructive feedback and/or redirection to individuals when needed
  3. Shows initiative to improve team efficiency and metrics
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  • Dice Id: 10110117
  • Position Id: 8939095
  • Posted 11 hours ago

Company Info

About Pantheon

Pantheon Inc. was founded in 1997 as a full service software engineering company, engaged in: Software product development, Software development support and consulting services, and Turnkey software development.

Pantheon was founded by technology and business experts who are pioneers in the field of software engineering, both in the commercial space and academia.

Our flagship product Odyssey is used by many Fortune 500 multi-national companies around the world. Odyssey is actively used in 13 countries spanning many continents.

Pantheon puts science to work by creating innovative products and solutions that have proved to be increasingly critical to business success. This is accomplished by helping organizations manage change, manage lifecycle of information assets, and meet compliance and audit challenges. Our aim is to help our customers meet their goals through expertise, efficiency and sound decision-making in everything we do. We have the ability to innovate in response to market needs, drawing on our experience and top quality technical talents.

What do we look for?

We look for talented and creative professionals who are capable of being adaptive and responsive to the needs of our customers. The environment is challenging and dynamic, providing many opportunities for displaying one's drive, commitment and energy, all of which are necessary to keep us moving forward. If you think you possess these qualities and strive for challenges, then go ahead and apply to be part of the team at Pantheon.

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