Job ID: JOB_ID_6243
Job Summary:
We are seeking a Senior Scrum Master to support Data & AI teams across the company spanning cloud data platform engineering, data integration, analytics, and AI/ML initiatives. In this role, you will serve as a servant leader who enables teams to deliver meaningful business value through Agile principles, strong collaboration, and continuous improvement.
You will partner with Product Owners, engineers, and stakeholders to create an environment where teams can focus on outcomes, improve how work flows through the system, and deliver impactful data and AI capabilities to the organization. As an Agile coach and facilitator, you will help teams and stakeholders grow in Agile maturity while navigating complex, cross-functional work.
This role supports multiple Data & AI engineering teams delivering shared data platforms, analytics capabilities, and AI solutions across the enterprise.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Agile Leadership & Team Enablement: Serve as a servant leader for Data & AI teams, creating an environment where teams can focus on delivering value, improving continuously, and taking ownership of outcomes. Coach teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders in Agile principles and practices while fostering psychological safety, accountability, and collaboration.
- Agile Practices & Facilitation: Guide teams in applying Agile practices such as Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid approaches in ways that support effective delivery rather than rigid adherence to ceremony. Facilitate key team ceremonies including daily stand-up, planning, reviews, and retrospectives to drive alignment, transparency, and learning.
- Backlog & Value Delivery: Partner closely with Product Owners, engineers, and stakeholders to maintain healthy, well-refined backlogs aligned to business outcomes. Help teams break down work into deliverable increments, clarify priorities, and maintain a sustainable pace of delivery.
- Flow Metrics & Continuous Improvement: Use delivery metrics such as cycle time, throughput, and flow trends to help teams understand how work moves through the system and identify opportunities to improve predictability and delivery effectiveness. Facilitate retrospectives and learning loops that lead to actionable improvements.
- Impediment & Systemic Problem Resolution: Proactively identify and address obstacles impacting team effectiveness. Work with leadership and cross-functional partners to resolve systemic impediments and improve organizational processes that affect delivery.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Foster strong collaboration across platform engineering, data engineering, analytics, and business teams. Help teams manage dependencies, improve communication, and align around shared goals to enable smooth delivery of complex data and AI initiatives.
- Agile Tooling & Transparency: Support teams in effectively using Agile tooling such as Azure DevOps (boards, sprints, dashboards) to maintain transparency into priorities, work progress, and delivery outcomes. Encourage practices that provide visibility while keeping tools lightweight and supportive of team workflows.
Technical Context:
- Data & AI Literacy: Ability to understand and facilitate work involving data pipelines, cloud platforms (Snowflake, Azure), ETL/ELT, analytics, and AI/ML initiatives (you don’t need to build them, but you need to speak the language).
- CI/CD & DevOps Awareness: Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, and engineering workflows sufficient to identify process bottlenecks and facilitate planning conversations.
- Cross-Team Coordination: Experience managing dependencies and facilitating delivery across platform, data engineering, analytics, and business teams working on shared infrastructure and data products.
Experience:
- 5-8+ years as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach, with at least 2+ years supporting data engineering, platform, or AI/ML teams.
- CSM, PSM II, SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent certification preferred.
Special Requirements
Hybrid onsite 3-4 days. Financial or banking background preferred. Interview virtual. USC, GC, GC EAD only. Supports Data & AI teams. Experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Azure), ETL/ELT, analytics, AI/ML, CI/CD, and DevOps is beneficial.
Compensation & Location
Salary: $50 – $50 per year
Location: West Des Moines, IA
Recruiter / Company – Contact Information
Email: l@rulesiq.com
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