Senior Scrum Master (Remote)

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Philippines

Description

Your responsibilities will include:

• Facilitate effective communication among team members.  
• Actively monitor the team's progress on commitments, taking proactive measures to ensure they are on track, and keeping all parties updated on progress and changes. 
• Champion Agile values, principles, and practices within the organization.
• Champion change management across Scrum teams and the broader LegalMatch organization.  
• Continuously evaluate and enhance Agile practices to improve software delivery effectiveness.  
• Steward the team’s Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, working agreements, and estimation practices, while ensuring cross-team dependencies are identified and considered during planning and delivery.  
• Facilitate effective Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions.  
• Support Product Owners in refining, organizing, and optimizing product backlogs, including helping ensure that team goals and OKRs are aligned with business stakeholder priorities.  
• Remove roadblocks that can hinder team progress.  
• Help the Scrum team, Release and Incident Management, and the broader engineering team coordinate release planning and deployment activities.  Onboard, train, and mentor Scrum team members.
• Monitor the team's progress and health, applying strategies for ongoing improvement.  
• Coach team members to increase team effectiveness and organizational impact.
• Guide the team toward driving results at an organizational level.  
• Facilitate self-organization within teams, empowering team members to take ownership and drive initiatives.  
• Work closely with HR and Practice Leads to manage the performance evaluation of probationary team members.  
• Develop coaching plans for team members to support continuous learning and professional development.  
• Promote the effective use of AI-powered tools to improve team productivity, Agile delivery, documentation, planning, and knowledge sharing.  
• Identify opportunities to streamline Scrum processes through automation and AI-assisted workflows while maintaining quality and governance.  
• Leverage AI tools to support task performance, team collaboration, delivery tracking, documentation, and continuous improvement, while promoting practical and responsible AI adoption across the Scrum team and broader organization.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar Agile leadership role.  
• Demonstrates servant leadership by setting a positive example, acting proactively, and helping teams solve problems effectively.  
• Strong working knowledge of Agile methodologies, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum and Kanban.  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.  
• Agile Scrum Master Certification and/or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Certification is preferred but not required.  
• Good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).  
• Experience with AI tools (such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini) to enhance Agile delivery, collaboration, documentation, planning, development workflows, or automation.  
• Ability to evaluate and adopt emerging AI tools that enhance team productivity while ensuring responsible and effective use.  
• Encourage the practical and responsible use of AI tools by helping teams apply them in ways that improve productivity, protect quality, and support sound engineering and governance practices. 
• Advanced proficiency in Jira and Confluence, including JQL, automation rules, dashboards, reporting, and delivery metrics such as velocity, cycle time, and throughput.