Scrum Master

ALTEN Romania is part of the ALTEN Group, Leader in IT and Engineering Consulting. We develop innovative and durable technical solutions that fulfill the needs of our local and international partners.

About the Role:

The Scrum Master plays a crucial role in facilitating agile practices within the development team,

ensuring team success through host leadership and a strong commitment to agile values.

The role includes both internal and external responsibilities—coaching team members, supporting product owners, fostering psychological safety, and protecting the team from external interruptions.

A typical day might include the following:

Serve as a host leader and orchestrate an agile culture within the team.

• Lead and facilitate all team agile rituals and events, ensuring process mastery.

• Proactively identify and remove impediments and dependencies to maintain flow.

• Collaborate with and mentor the Product Owner (PO) to manage and prioritize the team’s backlog.

• Guide the team to use effective product management and quality practices.

• Visualize all work, measure and optimize value flow within the team.

• Foster a high-performing team environment, supporting psychological safety, transparency, and

collaboration.

• Support the development of T-shaped capabilities within the team to promote cross-functionality

and reduce dependencies.

• Ensure accurate reporting and update of team activities in tools like Jira and Confluence.

• Represent the agile team in Agile Release Train (ART) meetings and events including PI Planning and

Scrum of Scrums (SoS).

• Provide visibility on team contributions, delivery metrics, and progress (e.g., burndown charts,

velocity).

• Perform management activities by delegation, including leave validation and hours logging for

capitalization and progress measurement.

• Gather and capitalize data on team capacity before PI Planning (leaves, extra hours, training hours).

To ensure success in this role, you need the following experience and skills:

• Deep understanding of agile and lean values, principles, and practices.

• Experience in facilitating agile ceremonies and team events.

• Proficiency in using agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, and other reporting tools.

• Ability to coach teams and Product Owners in backlog refinement, product management, and buildin quality practices.

• Skilled in identifying and proactively removing impediments and dependencies.

• Experience with performance assessment and development of team skillsets, including T-shaped

skills for software engineering (SE), software (SW), and IVV work.

• Capability to report using engineering data and delivery metrics (burndown chart, velocity,

predictability, etc.).

• Recognized problem-solving expertise

• Agile & SAFe methodologies

• PSM certification.

Only eligible candidates will be contacted in a maximum of 2 weeks. Any information you provide is confidential.