Scrum Master — California, United States

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Role: Scrum Master

Location: Irvine, CA

Duration: Full time

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Job Description:

Scrum Master

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

As a Scrum Lead, you will act as an Agile practitioner and advocate, responsible for leading teams across the organization to adopt an Agile mindset and implement Agile ways of working. Under supervision from senior Agile Practice team members, this role will provide Agile leadership to teams of associates to enable them in development of the Agile mindset and maturing their ways of working. In partnership with other Agile experts, this Agilist continues to develop and improve our teams’ Agility and shares best practices as part of the Workday program.

• You have at least 8 years of experience working in an Agile delivery environment, including a minimum of 4 year as a full-time or part-time Scrum Lead (Scrum Master), or a comparable role.

• You have experience in Agile methodologies, frameworks, and practices. Optionally, you are certified in Agile (CSM, PSM-I, SAFe Scrum Master).

• You have at least 4 years of experience using Atlassian Jira.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

• Guide the team in applying Scrum and Agile principles consistently and practically.

• Work with the Product Owner to maintain a healthy, prioritized, and well-understood product backlog.

• Identify and help remove blockers, dependencies, and delivery impediments affecting the team.

• Track sprint execution using Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar Agile tools, including velocity, burndown, and completion trends.

• Protect the team from unnecessary interruptions and help maintain focus on the Sprint Goal.

• Coordinate dependencies and communication across business, technology, product, QA, and other Scrum teams.

• Encourage self-organization and accountability rather than directly assigning or managing individual team members.

• Facilitate discussions around risks, issues, priorities, and delivery commitments, escalating when necessary.

• Support continuous improvement by converting retrospective feedback into specific improvement actions.

• Promote transparency through accurate reporting of sprint progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery health.

• Coach team members and stakeholders on effective Agile/Scrum ways of working.

• Help ens ure stories meet agreed Definition of Ready and Definition of Done criteria.

• Partner with Product Owners and delivery leadership on release and capacity planning.

• Foster a collaborative environment focused on predictable delivery, quality, and continuous improvement.

Suneetha K

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