Sr. Scrum Master - Hybrid

Description

EPMA is supporting a client in the energy/operations sector hiring a Scrum Master to support a large-scale business transformation program. This role focuses on helping business-led teams adopt agile practices and deliver measurable outcomes through structured, disciplined sprint execution.

Type - Long Term Contract
Location - Houston, TX / Princeton, NJ (Hybrid: Mon - Thu onsite, Fri Remote)
Industry - Power & Utilities
W2 employment only

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Establish and reinforce effective sprint cadence, timeboxing, and team operating rhythm
• Coach business leads, team members, and stakeholders on Scrum roles, ceremonies, and agile ways of working
• Help teams translate business work into clear backlog items, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Keep teams focused on incremental outcomes rather than reverting to traditional project and deliverable-based habits
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Identify and escalate impediments, risks, and delivery drift that affect sprint performance and team progress
• Support multiple capability cluster teams as they work toward defined business capabilities and measurable outcomes
• Partner with Operational Excellence leadership and program governance to maintain alignment across teams
• Promote continuous improvement through inspection, adaptation, and stronger execution discipline
• Help create consistency in how teams plan, execute, and evaluate work across the program

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience serving as a Scrum Master in agile environments
• Strong knowledge of Scrum principles, lifecycle, and ceremonies
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and sprint execution
• Experience coaching teams or stakeholders who are new to agile ways of working
• Strong communication, facilitation, and organizational skills
• Ability to enforce timeboxes, maintain sprint discipline, and keep teams focused on outcomes
• Experience helping teams break work into clear user stories and acceptance criteria
• Ability to work effectively across business stakeholders, delivery teams, and program leadership

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting non-technical or business teams in an agile delivery environment
• Experience in agile transformation, operating model change, or organizational change initiatives
• Familiarity with operational excellence, continuous improvement, lean, or process transformation
• Experience working in large enterprise organizations with complex stakeholder environments
• Exposure to business capability-based planning or value stream-oriented operating models

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document.

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