Job Description
About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Scrum Master -Workday Platform with 7+ years of experience as a Scrum Master (or Agile Delivery Lead) on software/product teams.
Requirements
- Demonstrated success delivering complex work across multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Experience supporting Workday platform delivery
- Strong facilitation skills: you run meetings that produce decisions, accountability, and momentum.
- Strong written communication (clear status, crisp risks, actionable next steps).
- Familiarity with Agile tooling (Jira and/or Azure DevOps, Confluence) and using dashboards to keep stakeholders aligned.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies across Workday delivery teams: sprint planning, daily standups, refinement, demos, and retrospectives.
- Partner with Product Owners to maintain a clean, prioritized backlog with clear acceptance criteria and Definitions of Ready/Done.
- Track progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery metrics (e.g., throughput, sprint predictability); drive continuous improvement with data.
- Remove impediments and coordinate across teams and functions (business, Workday Admin/Dev, QA, security, data/integrations, and change management).
- Ensure user stories include acceptance criteria, test approach, and early identification of dependencies (integration touchpoints, data needs, access/security reviews).
- Support operational excellence: triage production issues, coordinate incident response, manage prioritization of defects vs. features, and improve support workflows.
- Support release execution: UAT readiness, sandbox/environment planning, deployment/change coordination, release notes, and post-release validation/follow-up.
