Scrum Master
RemoteBelgium
Job Summary
Facilitate Scrum events including Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective while removing impediments to sprint progress. Coach the team and organization on agile practices, Scrum roles, and continuous improvement to ensure alignment with PM2 agile principles. Support the Product Owner in backlog management, prioritization, and creating clear user stories, while monitoring sprint progress using Jira boards, burndown charts, and sprint reports. Document the agile way of working for the team and coordinate with Product Owners, managers, business users, and external vendors. Lead meetings effectively to guide the team without direct management, ensuring iterative delivery, flexibility, and transparency.
Required Qualifications
- University degree in IT
- Relevant IT professional experience of minimum 8 years
- Excellent knowledge of one of the agile frameworks: roles, events, artifacts, sprint cycles, and Scrum principles
- Excellent knowledge of scaled agile concept
- Ability to support iterative delivery, flexibility, transparency, and continuous improvement
- Ability to lead meetings such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospective effectively
- Ability to guide the team, Product Owner, and stakeholders without directly managing them
- Excellent knowledge of JIRA and hands-on experience working with boards, sprint reports, backlogs, and burndown charts
- Understanding of software development processes and enough technical awareness to understand team challenges and delivery flow
- Ability to coordinate with Product Owners, managers, business users, and external vendors
- Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I, PSM II, PSM III)
- SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)
- Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A CSM)
- Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster (CSP-SM)
- EXIN Agile Scrum Master
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI ACP)
- Scrum Master Accredited Certification Offered by the International Scrum Institute
- Excellent command of the English language
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