Scrum Master
First seen by Alion on Sep 21, 2026.
Position Objective :
Looking for an experienced Scrum Master to facilitate Agile delivery across cross-functional technology teams. The ideal candidate will be responsible for enabling Scrum practices, removing impediments, improving team effectiveness, and ensuring successful delivery of business and technology objectives.
Key Responsibilities :
- Serve as the Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives.
- Coach teams on Agile principles, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement.
- Remove or facilitate the resolution of impediments that affect team productivity and delivery.
- Work closely with Product Owners to maintain a healthy and prioritized product backlog.
- Ensure the team maintains appropriate sprint goals, commitments, and delivery plans.
- Track sprint progress, velocity, burndown, and other Agile delivery metrics.
- Identify delivery risks, dependencies, and issues and ensure timely resolution.
- Facilitate collaboration between development, QA, business, architecture, and other cross-functional teams.
- Promote transparency and provide regular delivery updates to stakeholders and leadership.
- Identify opportunities to improve team productivity, quality, predictability, and overall Agile maturity.
- Support dependency management across multiple teams and programs.
- Help teams adopt effective estimation, planning, and capacity management practices.
- Ensure Agile processes are followed while avoiding unnecessary process overhead.
Unique Knowledge & Skill Requirement :
- 8+ years of experience in Agile delivery, with significant experience as a Scrum Master.
- Strong hands-on experience with Scrum framework, Agile principles, and Agile ceremonies.
- Experience facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospective sessions.
- Proven experience in identifying and removing impediments and managing delivery risks.
- Strong experience working with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, QA teams, and other stakeholders.
- Experience managing cross-functional and distributed Agile teams.
- Strong knowledge of backlog management, story refinement, estimation, sprint planning, and release planning.
- Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence.
- Experience tracking Agile metrics such as velocity, burndown, sprint progress, and team capacity.
- Strong understanding of dependencies, risks, issues, and escalation management.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, conflict-resolution, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to coach teams and individuals on Agile practices and continuous improvement.
- Experience working in enterprise-level technology programs is preferred.
- Experience with SAFe or other scaled Agile frameworks is an added advantage.
- Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated industries is preferred.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- SAFe Scrum Master certification
- PMI-ACP certification
- Experience working with globally distributed teams.
- Experience supporting multiple Scrum teams or large-scale Agile programs.
Skills
Scrum, Agile, IT Project Delivery, Project Management, Delivery Management, Jira, Confluence