What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Scrum Master position at Centric Consulting?
Job Level: W2T Consultant
Job Location: Hybrid, St. Louis
Travel Expectations: 25%
Job Classification: Full-Time, Temporary (W2T)
Join Centric Consulting – A Culture You’ll Love
At Centric Consulting, we've cultivated a unique approach to business. Our business is built on three fundamental principles: Enjoy the people you work with, have fun, and do great work. These principles define our consulting model and have crafted one of the most vibrant cultures in the consulting industry – celebrating individuals, collaboration, and lifelong friendships.
In this role, you will:
We proudly offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive and well-rounded benefits package for full-time employees that have been designed to nourish your well-being, such as health coverage, wellness programs, 401K company match, self-managed PTO, and other unique incentives that celebrate your accomplishments.
Discover more about our benefits by exploring additional details here benefits .
Who We Are:
Founded in 1999 with a remote workforce, we combine the benefits of experience, flexibility, and cost efficiency to create tailored solutions centered on what’s best for businesses. Now numbering more than 1,400 employees in the U.S. and India, we’re committed to solving clients’ toughest problems and delivering on our mission of providing unmatched experiences.
Our purpose at Centric Consulting is to bring unmatched experiences to clients and employees. These aren't just words we use — it's how we became a company and who we are today. Providing an unmatched experience means we approach each other as human beings and lead with empathy and humility. It means we work diligently to ensure we are a place where everyone can create a sense of belonging and feel respected for who they are.
What Makes Centric a Great Place to Work?
We know that creating and sustaining an authentically welcoming culture requires that we all play a part in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion , from our business practice to how we show up for employees and communities. This is how we bring our mission and core values to life, working together to provide the highest quality services to our clients while allowing our employees to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the application or interview process.
Job Location: Hybrid, St. Louis
Travel Expectations: 25%
Job Classification: Full-Time, Temporary (W2T)
Join Centric Consulting – A Culture You’ll Love
At Centric Consulting, we've cultivated a unique approach to business. Our business is built on three fundamental principles: Enjoy the people you work with, have fun, and do great work. These principles define our consulting model and have crafted one of the most vibrant cultures in the consulting industry – celebrating individuals, collaboration, and lifelong friendships.
In this role, you will:
- As a Senior Scrum Master, you will facilitate the exchange of information within agile development teams, between teams, and throughout the organization.
- You will be expected to facilitate all agile ceremonies, create supporting artifacts, and coach the organization on continuous improvement through the use of agile principles and values.
- Utilizing metrics, coaching techniques, transparency, experimentation, and servant leadership, the Senior Scrum Master guides the continual delivery of business and customer value.
- Partners with the product team in applying agile practices to achieve business value in each sprint.
- Assists the Product Owner in managing the backlog.
- Manages team agile processes to ensure effectiveness and predictability.
- Coaches the Delivery Team(s) in agile methodologies.
- Facilitates all team ceremonies.
- Provides metrics such as team velocity and throughput to improve team performance.
- Coaches the Delivery Team(s) on continuous improvement.
- Removes impediments for the Delivery Team(s).
- Escalates issues and risks identified by the Delivery Team to the Product Owner and Project Manager.
- Protects the Delivery Team(s) from outside influence.
- Monitors and ensures team workflows and processes are followed.
- Works with Delivery Team(s) to create team agreements.
- Performs other duties as assigned or requested.
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years of related work experience, or Associate's degree and a minimum of 7 years of related work experience, or High school diploma and a minimum of 9 years of related work experience.
- Agile certification(s) (CSM, PSM I/II preferred)
- Agile Methodologies (Scrum/Kanban/Scaled solutions)
- Agile tooling experience (Azure DevOps (TFS), Jira, Confluence, etc.)
- Ability to work within/develop an agile work environment utilizing Scrum methodologies.
- Ability to teach agile concepts and apply practices in a context-sensitive manner.
- Highly collaborative with ability to work cohesively across the organization.
- Servant leadership, self-management, and taking ownership and accountability.
- Provide effective, timely feedback through open and transparent communication.
- Worked in hybrid environments where organizations are at different levels of maturity in their agile journey.
- Local to the St. Louis area
We proudly offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive and well-rounded benefits package for full-time employees that have been designed to nourish your well-being, such as health coverage, wellness programs, 401K company match, self-managed PTO, and other unique incentives that celebrate your accomplishments.
- Remote and Hybrid Work
- Time Off When You Need It
- Benefits That Flex
- Professional Development
Discover more about our benefits by exploring additional details here benefits .
Who We Are:
Founded in 1999 with a remote workforce, we combine the benefits of experience, flexibility, and cost efficiency to create tailored solutions centered on what’s best for businesses. Now numbering more than 1,400 employees in the U.S. and India, we’re committed to solving clients’ toughest problems and delivering on our mission of providing unmatched experiences.
Our purpose at Centric Consulting is to bring unmatched experiences to clients and employees. These aren't just words we use — it's how we became a company and who we are today. Providing an unmatched experience means we approach each other as human beings and lead with empathy and humility. It means we work diligently to ensure we are a place where everyone can create a sense of belonging and feel respected for who they are.
What Makes Centric a Great Place to Work?
We know that creating and sustaining an authentically welcoming culture requires that we all play a part in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion , from our business practice to how we show up for employees and communities. This is how we bring our mission and core values to life, working together to provide the highest quality services to our clients while allowing our employees to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the application or interview process.
