
Senior Scrum Master- (Hybrid)
Citi Careers
Irving, Texas, United States of America
Full-time, Hybrid
Posted Sep 03, 2025
Hybrid
About the role
The Scrum Master plays a meaningful role in delivering high-quality modern software as part of a cross-functional Agile Scrum Team. This role will be accountable for acting as a servant leader to the Scrum Team, acting to surface and resolve team-level sprint risks and roadblocks while facilitating Scrum ceremonies. This role will also act as a change agent, evangelizing the tenets of Agile and Scrum across Global Functions Technology.
Responsibilities
- Act as a Change Agent with a passion for supporting teams to transform their behaviors toward an agile environment.
- Facilitate Scrum processes and events, enabling team maturity.
- Leverage performance data to drive outcomes and continuous improvement.
- Create an agile mindset with focus on agile values and principles, leading with transparency, inspection, and adaptation, resulting in delivery of high-value increments which meet the Definition of Done.
- Enable teams through servant leadership skills to develop sprint goals, robust product backlogs, acceptance criteria, and definitions of done / ready.
- Facilitate program-level agile ceremonies to include dependency mapping, release planning, and scope alignment across Product teams.
- Enable the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress.
- Facilitate communication and partnership inside and outside the team, including stakeholder engagement.
- Enables empirical product planning for a complex environment.
- Protect the team from distractions, allowing for focus to meet sprint and program commitments.
- Promote self-organization and cross-functionality of the team, coaching each role to enable high performance of the team.
- Leads, trains, and coaches the organization in its agile adoption.
Requirements
- 5+ years working in an agile environment as a development team member, Scrum Master, or Product Owner.
- Experience in managing agile & lean values and standards.
- Experience in the Scrum Master or Agile Coach role of distributed Agile team; tech domain preferred.
- Mindset consistent with Scrum core values: openness, courage, respect, focus, and commitment.
- Demonstrated understanding of lean agile values and principles, including the 3-5-3 structure of Scrum.
- Expert in facilitation, problem-solving, and influencing outcomes.
- Strong knowledge of best practices in value-driven development (requirements management, prototyping, hypothesis-driven development, usability testing).
- Expert knowledge of agile tool suites including Atlassian, Agility Health Radar, MS Teams, or similar agile management tooling.
- Scrum Master and Agile Certifications.
Benefits
- 401(k) matching
- Health insurance
- Flight privileges
- Wellness programs
About the Company
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Job Details
Salary Range
$96,400 - $146,600/yearly
Location
Irving, Texas, United States of America
Employment Type
Full-time, Hybrid
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