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Insight Global
Sr. Scrum Master - Digital Engineering
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A Scrum Master serves as the facilitator on an Agile team, helping them to achieve their delivery goals using the Agile methodology, a product development process, most commonly used in software development that focuses on iterative improvements.
$105,536 / year median in California
+2% projected growth
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- Run sprint ceremonies (planning, standups, retros, backlog refinement) across multiple Product Engineering teams, keeping cadences aligned when releases, migrations, and major sporting events touch multiple teams at once.
- Keep priority initiatives on track by ensuring delivery milestones, sprint goals, and roadmap commitments are progressing as planned across multiple interconnected teams.
- Coordinate cross-team production releases and post-release validation across impacted teams — tracking ownership, managing downstream dependencies, driving accountability, and unblocking issues in real time.
- Own JIRA/epic hygiene: correctly structured epics and children, actionable reporting, and clean handoffs between engineering, QA, and product.
- Track, analyze, and improve team delivery metrics, ensuring sprint health and team effectiveness continue to improve over time.
- Facilitate feature-flag rollout coordination and staged testing windows across assigned teams.
- Surface and help resolve blockers spanning GitHub access, environment availability, backend/API dependencies, and QA/SDET coordination.
- Provide both project management and program management support across multiple teams, helping teams navigate roadmap execution while maintaining visibility into the broader business objectives.
- Identify risks early and proactively drive mitigation plans before delivery timelines or business-critical milestones are impacted.
- Track and report sprint health, release risk, dependency risk, and delivery metrics to Product Engineering leadership.
- Help teams adapt agile practices as AI coding agents change the unit of work and drive innovation through AI-enabled delivery processes.
- Act as a highly proactive delivery leader who can influence teams, motivate stakeholders, communicate effectively with leadership, and drive alignment in a fast-paced hybrid environment.
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https://insightglobal.com/workforce-privacy-policy/. Skills and Requirements- 6+ years of Scrum Master and/or Technical Project Manager experience supporting software engineering teams.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating work across multiple Agile teams with inter-team dependencies.
- Strong expertise with Jira, backlog management, sprint reporting, release coordination, and Agile delivery metrics.
- Experience working closely with engineering teams that build and support backend systems and APIs.
- Ability to understand technical dependencies and effectively partner with developers to remove blockers and manage delivery risks.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills.
- Comfortable operating in highly visible, hard-date-driven environments with rapidly changing priorities.
- Experience leveraging AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, or similar AI-enabled productivity tools to improve reporting, team effectiveness, and delivery processes.
- Familiarity with subscription/commerce platforms, authentication/identity systems, or entitlement platforms.
- Experience working within media, streaming, entertainment, or consumer-facing digital products.
- Experience scrum-mastering through live, high-traffic events (major sporting tournaments, breaking news cycles) where release windows are inflexible.
- Prior experience balancing responsibilities across Scrum Master, Release Management, and Agile Program Management functions.