senior scrum master

ABOUT THE CLIENT

Our customer is an international trade organization established over 70 years ago by a group of airlines. The organization represents around 330 airlines, accounting for more than 80% of the world's air traffic.

PROJECT DETAILS

Our customer, a global organization in the aviation sector, is launching a strategic revamp of its Statistics program to modernize how aviation data is collected, processed, and delivered. The initiative aims to establish a more scalable, modular, and automated architecture. You will play a key role in helping define and implement the technical foundations of this transformation, contributing to the future of the organization's data infrastructure and delivery models.

YOUR TEAM

The team consists of around 30 Engineers working in a Scrum setup across multiple projects internationally. From Brightgrove side, the team includes 3 Senior Software Engineers and a Scrum Master, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

• Interview process that respects people and their time
• Professional and open IT community
• Internal meet-ups and resources for knowledge sharing
• Time for recovery and relaxation
• Bright online and offline events
• Opportunity to become part of our internal volunteer community

RESPONSIBILITIES

This role goes beyond traditional Scrum facilitation: you will work closely with Product Owners, Solution Architects, Technical Leads, and Developers to translate business needs into clear technical requirements in Jira, ensuring both frontend (React/Angular)and backend (Java Spring Boot microservices) teams deliver high-quality solutions efficiently.

Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills are essential to foster collaboration, remove impediments, and help teams continuously improve.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings.
• Foster an environment where questions, challenges, and experimentation are encouraged to help teams solve complex issues.
• Ensure teams are fully functional and productive, enabling them to achieve sprint goals.
• Guide and coach the Scrum Team on Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
• Help the Product Owner and Technical Lead translate business requirements into clear, technical Jira stories with definedacceptance criteria and Definition of Done.
• Coach the Scrum Team in self-organization and cross-functionality.
• Remove impediments to the team's progress and ensure scrum events are productive and timeboxed.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information.
• Support and educate the Product Owner on backlog grooming and prioritization.
• Provide servant leadership and lead by example, fostering collaboration and accountability.
• Track and report on Agile metrics (velocity, burndown, lead time) to support continuous improvement.

SKILLS

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master in software development teams.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent Agile certification.
• Proven knowledge of Agile techniques such as User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.
• Experience with frontend projects in Angular and backend projects in Java Spring Boot microservices.
• Moderate to high technical awareness — expected to understand tech stacks, APIs, CI/CD, and architecture concepts.
• Strong understanding of servant leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, and transparency.
• Excellent communication, mentoring, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to distinguish between what is Scrum and what is not Scrum.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience working with distributed or remote teams.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Previous hands-on experience in software development or QA engineering.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and microservices orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Exposure to enterprise-scale Agile frameworks such as SAFe or LeSS.

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