Senior Scrum Master
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Job description
About the Position
We are looking for a Senior Scrum Master to act as a Release Train Engineer, guiding large-scale Agile teams through complex projects while ensuring alignment, transparency, and continuous improvement across all levels of the organization.
Responsibilities
- Serve as RTE for 17-20 teams (250-300 people) using Agile methodology and scrum practices
- Facilitate PI Planning sessions
- Raise, track, communicate, and escalate risks
- Maintain deep involvement in team's and project's day-to-day activities
- Remove blockers and coach the team to eliminate impediments
- Collect and report on metrics
- Facilitate meetings and ensure their effectiveness
- Manage scope and work closely with product owners to ensure backlog health
- Manage stakeholders and their expectations
- Ensure customer satisfaction
- Resolve conflicts and issues as they occur
- Support the scrum team in achieving higher levels of scrum maturity
- Provide coaching and training to the team where needed
- Maintain communication with various levels of stakeholders
Requirements
- 10+ years of prior experience as RTE managing 10+ teams with complex dependencies
- Knowledge of and experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Sense of ownership and responsibility as a team-player
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and mentoring skills
- Ability to adapt to changing environments
- Self-motivation and ability to stay focused amid distraction
- Ability to analyze and think quickly
- Ability to prevent and resolve conflicts and misunderstandings
- Knowledge of techniques to fill in gaps in the Agile/Scrum framework
- Experience with successful Agile techniques
- Working knowledge of Jira
- Proficiency in AI
- Advanced proficiency in English (C1+)
Nice to Have
- Prior experience in financial services
- Prior experience in a project or company that went through Agile transformation, with direct involvement in the process
- Working knowledge of Aha! and Easy Agile
We Offer
- Remote work in Mexico
- Opportunity to work with large-scale Agile teams
- Professional growth and development
About the Company
EPAM Systems is a global software engineering and product development company, delivering digital platforms and solutions to the world's leading companies.
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