Senior Scrum Master POST NUMBER: 475580

Vaco is partnering with a national financial services organization to hire a Senior Scrum Master supporting multiple engineering teams across a large-scale, distributed technology environment. This role plays a key part in driving delivery execution, improving Agile maturity, and ensuring alignment across teams working on a shared advisor platform.

This is a high-visibility role within a growing Agile organization where success depends on your ability to guide teams, remove friction, and bring structure to complex, cross-team delivery. The ideal candidate brings a strong balance of Agile leadership, technical understanding, and the ability to influence without authority.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Support multiple software development teams operating within Scrum and Kanban frameworks
• Lead Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and release planning
• Drive alignment across dependent teams, managing risks, dependencies, and delivery sequencing
• Facilitate collaboration across distributed teams spanning multiple time zones
• Remove impediments and enable teams to deliver high-quality products predictably
• Partner with Product Owners and engineering teams to improve backlog health and delivery outcomes
• Leverage Jira and Confluence to maintain accurate, transparent tracking of work, metrics, and team performance
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting to monitor delivery trends and identify improvement opportunities
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement through inspect-and-adapt cycles
• Mentor team members and Product Owners on Agile best practices and process maturity
• Drive accountability, ownership, and transparency across teams
• Support the evolution of Agile practices across the broader organization

Required Experience

• 5 or more years of experience as a Scrum Master in Agile software development environments
• Experience supporting distributed teams across multiple time zones
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban
• Hands-on experience using Jira and Confluence for workflow management, reporting, and metrics
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Ability to manage cross-team dependencies and coordinate delivery across complex environments
• Strong communication and facilitation skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to Have

• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries
• Prior programming or technical background
• Experience translating business requirements into structured technical requirements (BDD or similar)
• Experience supporting large-scale Agile environments or release trains

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary up to $140,000 annually
• Performance-based bonus
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with employer match
• Additional insurance offerings and employee benefits

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.