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Scrum Master Jobs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at EJADA
Title: Scrum Master
Company: EJADA
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Job Purpose:
We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master to drive Agile delivery excellence across cross-functional technology teams. The role is responsible for facilitating Scrum ceremonies, removing delivery impediments, coaching teams on Agile best practices, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery.
Key Accountabilities:
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
- Coach development teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile principles, Scrum practices, and team collaboration.
- Remove impediments and proactively resolve blockers impacting sprint commitments and delivery.
- Promote transparency through effective backlog management, sprint metrics, burndown charts, and team reporting.
- Foster continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance team performance, delivery quality, and Agile maturity.
- Support Product Owners with backlog refinement, prioritization, and sprint readiness.
- Track sprint progress, team velocity, and delivery health while ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to strengthen communication, accountability, and self-organization.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM I/II) is preferred.
Minimum Experience:
- +4 years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or Agile Delivery professional.
- Proven experience supporting Agile software delivery teams in enterprise environments.
Job-Specific Skills:
- Scrum & Agile Frameworks
- Sprint Planning & Agile Ceremonies
- Agile Coaching & Team Facilitation
- Backlog Refinement & Sprint Management
- Impediment & Risk Resolution
- Agile Metrics, Velocity & Burndown Tracking
- Stakeholder & Product Owner Collaboration
- Continuous Improvement & Agile Maturity
- Tools: Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Miro (or similar Agile collaboration tools)
- Experience supporting one or more of the following delivery towers: Application Development & Integration (Frontend, Backend, APIs, Microservices), Digital & Customer Experience, Cloud & Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and ServiceNow (ITSM, ITOM, CSM, SPM)