Senior Scrum Master
6 month contract
Dublin City Centre
Hybrid 3 days a week on site
Day rate per day
Senior Scrum Master to lead a cross-functional team supporting and enhancing a SharePoint-based and cloud applications work. This role involves coaching teams to improve Agile maturity, facilitating key ceremonies, collaborating with Product Owners to align delivery with business goals, and driving continuous improvement through metrics and proactive problem-solving.
You'll be the driving force behind agile delivery, ensuring smooth sprint execution, backlog refinement, and continuous improvement. The team manages development and support tickets via
Azure DevOps, so familiarity with that ecosystem is essential.
Key Responsibilities
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Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
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Coach and support multiple Scrum teams to improve Agile maturity, foster self-organisation, and maintain sustainable delivery pace.
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Manage and optimise the Azure DevOps backlog, ensuring tickets are well-defined, prioritised, and actionable
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Assist the development teams in the solutioning of problems, resolution of issues/dependencies and removal of blockers
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Collaborate with Product Owners, stakeholders, and developers to align priorities and expectations
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Monitor and report on team performance metrics (velocity, burndown, cycle time)
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Ensure compliance with governance and documentation standards
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Drive process improvements and automation opportunities across the support lifecycle.
Required Skills & Experience
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Proven experience as a Scrum Master in a technical environment (3+ years preferred)
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Proven ability to lead and facilitate agile ceremonies, both virtually and in person
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Hands-on experience with
Azure DevOps
for backlog management, sprint tracking, and reporting
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Strong leadership and coaching skills, guiding teams toward self-organisation, continuous improvement, and Agile mindset adoption.
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Proactively identify and remove impediments, enabling teams to stay focused and deliver consistent value.
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Good proven organisational & interpersonal skills to work with a variety of different skills and cultures
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Have previously worked in a complex and very decentralised organisation
Desired Skills and Experience
Senior Scrum Master
6 month contract
Dublin City Centre
Hybrid 3 days a week on site
Day rate per day
Senior Scrum Master to lead a cross-functional team supporting and enhancing a SharePoint-based and cloud applications work. This role involves coaching teams to improve Agile maturity, facilitating key ceremonies, collaborating with Product Owners to align delivery with business goals, and driving continuous improvement through metrics and proactive problem-solving.
You'll be the driving force behind agile delivery, ensuring smooth sprint execution, backlog refinement, and continuous improvement. The team manages development and support tickets via Azure DevOps, so familiarity with that ecosystem is essential.