Scrum Master - Manufacturing

Overview

At Capgemini Engineering, we bring together a global team of engineers, scientists, and architects to help world-leading companies unleash their potential. We provide unique R&D and engineering services across all industries, with opportunities to work on autonomous cars, life-saving robots, and more.

We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to coordinate the work of an Agile development team and support the end-to-end product development lifecycle. This role is responsible for planning, facilitating, and optimizing Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, backlog reviews, and retrospectives. This role partners closely with clients, end users, product management, and development leadership to ensure business requirements are understood and Agile best practices are applied.

Acting as a servant leader, this role proactively identifies and removes impediments and promotes continuous improvement to help the team meet delivery goals and milestones.

• Plan, facilitate, and lead all Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Guide the decomposition of epics and stories into sub-stories, tasks, spikes, and other actionable items.
• Coach the team on Scrum principles and ensure adherence to Agile processes to enable a high-performing, self-organizing team.
• Ensure stories progress through all required workflow steps to maintain transparency and delivery momentum.
• Identify, remove, and escalate impediments that impact team productivity, while encouraging focus on committed sprint work.
• Partner with Development Managers to support effective planning, prioritization, and capacity management.
• Conduct retrospectives and facilitate continuous improvement initiatives based on team feedback and performance insights.
• Schedule and facilitate backlog grooming sessions to ensure readiness of upcoming work.
• Support the development of delivery timelines and schedules in collaboration with PMO, including capacity planning, resource loading, and forecasting.
• Assess resource capacity and proactively identify gaps or the need for additional resources; support resource balancing strategies as needed.
• Collaborate with clients and end users to clarify business requirements and align development output with needs.
• Act as liaison between development teams and product management to ensure project processes, governance, and delivery standards are followed.
• Monitor risks and delivery issues, escalating concerns when needed and driving resolution through appropriate management channels.

• Overall 10+ years’ experience with a minimum of 5+ years in Robotic / Embedded / Manufacturing environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical or engineering field OR equivalent work experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Agile methodologies and the Scrum framework.
• Hands-on experience with Scrum and Agile tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, JAMA).
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills; proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional and distributed teams.
• Scrum Master Certification (e.g., Certified Scrum Master – CSM) preferred.

Works in the area of Software Engineering, encompassing development, maintenance, and optimization of software solutions. Applies scientific methods to analyze and solve software engineering problems. Responsible for development and application of software engineering practice and knowledge in research, design, development, and maintenance. Collaborates with other software engineers and stakeholders to reach standard software engineering skills expectations for the applicable role.

The base compensation range for this role is $65,200 – $158,550 per year. This range may be adjusted in accordance with applicable laws and local policy. The actual compensation offered may fall outside the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors, including location, qualifications, and experience.

Capgemini offers a comprehensive benefits package to all regular, full-time employees. Available…