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Scrum Master

PhotonCleveland, OH🇺🇸United States

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior

Work modeHybrid

LocationCleveland, OH, United States

Stakeholder ManagementScrumConfluenceContinuous ImprovementJiraAgile

Job description

Job Description:

Experienced Scrum Master to coordinate and manage two workstreams supporting its vulnerability remediation initiative. The successful candidate will facilitate Agile delivery, coordinate cross-functional teams, track remediation progress, manage dependencies and risks, and ensure timely completion of committed deliverables.

The Scrum Master will work closely with developers, technical leadership, and business stakeholders to maintain delivery transparency, address impediments, and support effective execution of remediation activities.

Key Responsibilities

Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions across two workstreams.
Coordinate sprint activities and track vulnerability remediation progress to ensure deliverables are completed within agreed timelines.
Identify and remove impediments, manage cross-team dependencies, and proactively address risks and issues affecting sprint delivery.
Track sprint progress, team velocity, burndown charts, sprint commitments, and delivery metrics to monitor team performance and predictability.
Facilitate continuous improvement initiatives and track retrospective action items to improve team effectiveness and delivery quality.
Support release planning and execution, coordinate release activities, and communicate release status and deployment updates to stakeholders.
Collaborate with technical leadership and stakeholders to communicate sprint progress, delivery risks, dependencies, and key milestones.
Maintain RAID logs and track risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies through resolution.
Support Program Increment (PI) Planning to align delivery priorities, dependencies, and milestones.
Promote Agile principles, collaboration, accountability, transparency, and team self-organization.
Provide regular status updates and escalate blockers that may affect remediation timelines or delivery commitments.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Proven experience as a Scrum Master supporting Agile software development teams.
Experience managing multiple workstreams and coordinating cross-functional delivery activities.
Strong understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies, sprint execution, backlog management, and delivery metrics.
Experience tracking risks, issues, dependencies, and action items through closure.
Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Jira Align, and Xray.
Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to coordinate technical teams, manage competing priorities, and maintain delivery accountability.
Experience supporting release coordination and communicating delivery status to technical leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification.
Experience supporting vulnerability remediation, application security, or technology risk initiatives.
Experience coordinating security remediation activities across multiple development teams.
Experience with Program Increment (PI) Planning and enterprise Agile delivery practices