Senior Scrum Master

at Purple Wave Auction House in Manhattan, Kansas, United States

Job Description

Are you an experienced Agile leader who thrives on empowering teams, removing roadblocks, and driving meaningful change? As a Senior Scrum Master, you’ll go beyond facilitating ceremonies—you’ll influence Agile practices across teams, mentor others, and help shape a culture of continuous improvement. This role is ideal for someone ready to lead with independence, broaden their impact, and help teams deliver customer value with greater focus, flow, and confidence.

The Senior Scrum Master builds upon the foundational Scrum Master role by operating with greater independence, broader scope, and deeper influence across teams. While continuing to empower Scrum teams to deliver customer value efficiently and effectively, this role also contributes to improving Agile practices across the department.

Senior Scrum Master practitioners serve as experienced Agile leaders who adapt frameworks to team context, resolve complex impediments, and guide teams toward higher levels of autonomy and delivery maturity. They act as trusted partners to Product Owners and Software Engineering Managers, helping teams interpret delivery data, improve collaboration, and continuously evolve their ways of working.

This role expands beyond individual team facilitation to include mentorship, Agile training, cross-team coordination, and contribution to the Scrum Master practice at Purple Wave.

Responsibilities:

• Advanced Agile Coaching
• Coach teams beyond basic Scrum mechanics, helping them apply Agile principles to real delivery challenges.
• Adapt and blend Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean based on team maturity and workflow needs.
• Guide teams toward increased autonomy, ownership, and self-organization.
• Strategic Facilitation
• Facilitate Scrum events with intentional design, adapting formats to encourage deeper discussion and meaningful outcomes.
• Help teams move beyond surface-level process issues to identify root causes and systemic improvements.
• Facilitate cross-team ceremonies or retrospectives when initiatives span multiple teams.
• Backlog & Delivery Partnership
• Proactively partner with Product Owners and Software Engineering Managers to improve backlog health and delivery predictability.
• Surface risks related to dependencies, unclear requirements, or workflow inefficiencies.
• Help teams maintain sustainable delivery pace while balancing business priorities.
• Complex Impediment Resolution
• Resolve cross-team or systemic impediments independently whenever possible.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and leadership to address blockers affecting multiple teams or initiatives.
• Escalate strategically when broader organizational support is required.
• Identify recurring impediment patterns and propose systemic improvements to prevent future blockers.
• Data-Driven Team Improvement
• Analyze team metrics such as cycle time, throughput, velocity trends, and delivery predictability.
• Interpret metrics to guide improvement discussions rather than simply reporting data.
• Coach teams to think in outcomes rather than outputs, and support the Product Owner in connecting the team's work to customer and business value.
• Mentorship & Practice Leadership
• Mentor Scrum Master I practitioners and share facilitation techniques, coaching approaches, and improvement practices.
• Contribute to the Scrum Master community of practice through knowledge sharing and collaboration.
• Support the evolution of Agile practices, tooling, and facilitation approaches used across the department.
• Organizational Agile Contribution
• Partner with the Agile Coach and engineering leadership to help mature Agile practices across Purple Wave.
• Lead or contribute to cross-team improvement initiatives, workshops, or retrospectives.
• Serve as a trusted voice in discussions about delivery processes, team health, and Agile culture.
• Undertake additional assigned duties as requested.
  
  
  

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Working Settings:

• Full-time Salaried Exempt, not eligible for overtime.
• Office hours are 8am-5pm, Monday through Friday, Central Time zone, additional hours may be required depending on priorities.
• This position is remote work eligible within the United States. Please be aware: the first week of employment includes mandatory in-person training. Remote start arrangements are not available.
• Also mandatory: One week a year of in-person training with the department.
• Potential for 10% travel.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.