Senior Scrum Master Job Portsmouth area,New Hampshire USA,IT/Tech

We are seeking an experienced Senior Scrum Master to lead Agile delivery across multiple teams while providing leadership and guidance to a team of Scrum Masters. The ideal candidate will be a servant leader with strong Agile expertise, exceptional stakeholder management skills, executive-level reporting capabilities, and proven experience managing cross-team dependencies in complex enterprise environments.

This role will not only facilitate Agile ceremonies and team effectiveness but will also act as a strategic partner to Product Owners, Delivery Leaders, Program Managers, and senior executives to ensure successful delivery of business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Agile Leadership &

Coaching:

Serve as Lead Scrum Master across multiple Agile teams.
Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to 2 to 3 Scrum Masters.
Drive consistent Agile and Scrum practices across teams.
Coach teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile principles and continuous improvement.
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous learning.

Team Facilitation:

Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including:

Sprint Planning
Daily Standups
Sprint Reviews
Sprint Retrospectives

Ensure teams maintain healthy Agile metrics and predictable delivery.

Create psychologically safe environments that promote innovation and collaboration.

Identify, track, and manage cross-team, cross-program, and external dependencies.

Proactively remove impediments impacting delivery.

Maintain visibility of risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies (RAID).

Escalate critical blockers to leadership with mitigation recommendations.

Stakeholder Management:

Collaborate with:

Product Owners
Business Stakeholders
Architects
Program Managers
Delivery Leadership Teams

Facilitate decision-making and conflict resolution.

Manage stakeholder expectations through effective communication and transparency.

Executive Reporting & Governance:

Prepare and present delivery updates to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.

Develop and maintain Agile dashboards and reporting frameworks.

Track and report:

Sprint Progress
Velocity Trends
Predictability Metrics Release Readiness

Deliver concise executive summaries highlighting delivery health, risks, and action plans.

Support governance reviews, Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), PI Planning, and leadership review meetings.

Scaling Agile Delivery:

Coordinate activities across multiple Agile teams.

Facilitate Scrum of Scrums and cross-team planning sessions.

Support SAFe, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Scrum@Scale, or other scaled Agile frameworks.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives at program and organizational levels.

Mentoring & Capability Development:

Mentor Scrum Masters to improve Agile maturity.

Conduct coaching sessions, workshops, and knowledge-sharing forums.

Support Agile transformation initiatives.

Contribute to Agile Community of Practice and organizational capability development.

Required Qualifications:

Experience:

10+ years of IT experience.
5+ years of Scrum Master experience in Agile environments.
Experience leading multiple Agile teams simultaneously.
Experience managing or mentoring Scrum Masters.
Strong experience working within large enterprise programs.
Proven track record managing cross-team dependencies and stakeholder engagement.

Certifications:

Preferred::

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)
SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Agile & Delivery Expertise:

Scrum
SAFe
Lean Agile Practices
Agile Metrics & Reporting
Program Increment (PI) Planning
Release Planning

Tools:

Jira
Confluence
Microsoft Teams
Excel and Executive Reporting Dashboards

Leadership:

Influencing Without Authority
Coaching & Mentoring
Organizational Agility

Communication:

Executive Presentation Skills
Stakeholder Management

Delivery Management:

Roadmap Alignment
Strategic Planning

Business Acumen:

Outcome-based Delivery
Value Stream Thinking
Client Relationship Management

Success Measures:

Delivery predictability and sprint success rate.
Effective resolution of cross-team dependencies.
Agile maturity improvement across teams.
Leadership satisfaction with reporting quality and transparency.
Improvement in team health and stakeholder engagement.
Successful mentoring and development of Scrum Masters.
Reduced delivery risks and improved release outcomes.

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $31.78/hour - $49.66/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an…