Senior Scrum Master

Job Description

The Scrum Master ensures that the Scrum team’s primary focus is on delivering value effectively. To achieve this, the team embodies the Agile values and principles, exhibits Agile behaviors and follows the events, artifacts, roles and good practices of Scrum and other frameworks as they are applicable to their situation. They are a Servant Leader, guiding, coaching and teaching team members. They are a liaison between the Scrum team and people or teams outside the Scrum team. With their experience, they are accountable for a Scrum team’s effectiveness, by helping them remove impediments or blockers within the team, other teams, and across the organization.  They support the Product Owner, sharing techniques to define the product goal and better manage the product backlog. Their coaching helps the Product Owner to establish an empirical process for product planning. They are conversant in the purpose and the logic of the product/service, its architecture, and the technologies that the team uses. As a change agent, they are responsible to lead the organization in implementing Scrum through training, coaching, and advising. A primary focus here is helping the organization adopt an empirical approach. They facilitate interactions between stakeholders and the Scrum team to foster openness, respect, and learning. As with any leading role, Scrum Masters are representatives of Capgemini. By nurturing Agile processes and delivery efficiency, they also ensure the discovery of new business opportunities together with the client.

Job Description - Grade Specific

Senior Scrum Master – A Senior Scrum Master is a Scrum master who can handle more complex delivery circumstances, e.g. during an Agile Transformation. They can handle multiple teams, and exhibit Lean-Agile leadership in a scaled environment. They remove team delivery blockers and enhance Agile Mindset and Behaviours. They support teams by introducing them to applicable practices of Scrum and other frameworks like XP, Kanban. They contribute to the growth of the Scrum Master community, mentoring new SMs. They support learning and development by running knowledge sharing sessions.