EU remote
Scrum Master
About this role
About the Role We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master who can independently guide agile teams through the full delivery lifecycle while acting as a trusted partner to both engineering and business stakeholders. You will facilitate agile ceremonies, remove delivery blockers, coach teams on Scrum/Agile best practices, and ensure smooth collaboration between developers, product owners, and clients across software projects.
The role requires close collaboration with engineering teams to track progress, surface risks early, and keep delivery predictable and transparent. Responsibilities Facilitate Scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review, and retrospectives, ensuring they are focused and time-boxed. Track team velocity, burndown/burnup charts, cycle time, and other delivery metrics; surface risks and blockers early to keep the team on track.
Work closely with Product Owners and client-side stakeholders to maintain a healthy, well-groomed backlog, ensure clear, actionable user stories, and provide transparent status reporting and sprint demos. Coach the team and stakeholders on Agile/Scrum principles, helping the team continuously improve its process maturity. Facilitate retrospectives that produce concrete, actionable improvement items, championing a kaizen (continuous improvement) mindset within the team.
Identify and remove impediments to the team's progress, escalating cross-team or organizational blockers as needed. Coach engineering managers and leadership on Agile/Scrum values and empirical process control, supporting Agile adoption beyond the immediate team. In multi-team environments, coordinate dependencies and facilitate collaboration across Scrum teams (e.g., under SAFe, LeSS, or Nexus). Support cross-functional coordination between developers, QA, and designers.
Maintain project artefacts: sprint plans, backlogs, retrospectives notes, and risk logs. Support onboarding of new team members into the team's Agile way of working. Protect the team from scope creep, unplanned work, and organizational interference during sprints, ensuring sprint commitments remain realistic. Requirements 5+ years of experience working as a Scrum Master or in an Agile delivery role. Experience facilitating Scrum for at least 2 software development teams/projects.