Agile Scrum Master

US Company is searching for a couple of Agile Scrum Masters into a complex, enterprise-level project for building sophisticated Agentic Systems, Adaptive RAG engines, capable of autonomous research to solve complex, real-world problems. Interesting project with cutting edge technologies, distributed team, full-time, an official contract. Remote work, flexible schedule.

Brief project description:

• The product is SaaS, which allows multiple functions for sustainability & operational risk management.

Responsibilities:

• Assessing the Agile Maturity of the squad coaching them to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team.
• Conduct training for establishing Agile fundamentals in software development teams.
• Introduce new techniques for retrospectives to keep teams energized and improving.
• Coach leadership and teams in identifying and removing impediments to delivering quality products.
• Lead Agile workshops for both development and functional teams, as well as key stakeholders.
• Promote and advocate a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and being accountable for them.
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values.
• Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization.
• Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
• Able to coach our Agile teams in Root Cause Analysis sessions.
• Able to run and coach Agile Product leaders in value mapping sessions.
• Supporting and educating Product Owners, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

Required skills (must have):

• Scrum/Agile master - 5+ years, preferably on enterprise level projects
• Experience in playing the Agile Coach role for at least three years for a software development team that was diligently applying Agile principles, practices, and theory.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Agile approach (example: numerous Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
• Being main facilitator of different Agile games/workshops.
• Aware of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, SaFe, etc
• Extremely good spoken and written English
• Following EU business hours with readiness to cover evening hours for Canada based teams

Would be considered as a plus:

• Ability to remain flexible and respond to changing organizational and business demands.
• Any Agile/Scrum Master certifications

Work conditions:

• 100% remote work.
• Full-time (40 hours per week).
• Official contract: salary, sick-leave days, holidays, vacations.
• Flexible schedule, adopted to EU business hours.

Interviewing / Hiring process:
Step 1 - preliminary interview (main questions) - 30-40 mins
Step 2 - tech interview with principal engineer - 30-60 mins