🚀 Senior Scrum Master (Onsite, Belgium – Leading Banking Institution)

📍 Leuven, Belgium | 💼 Freelance/Contract | 🕐 Start: ASAP

🧩 About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Scrum Master to support a multidisciplinary Agile team within a well-established banking institution. You will play a key role in guiding teams through Agile delivery, promoting a high-performance culture, and improving collaboration in a data-driven environment.

This position involves working closely with experts including functional analysts, developers, and business stakeholders across IT and business units.

🎯 Key Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize Scrum processes and Agile rituals
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos
• Support the Product Owner with backlog prioritization and sprint readiness
• Remove impediments and coach teams to self-organize and improve continuously
• Drive alignment across development, operations, and stakeholders
• Champion Agile principles and lead workshops to embed Agile best practices

✅ Your Profile

• 5+ years of proven experience as a Scrum Master in Agile environments
• Strong understanding of Agile principles, SAFe, and cross-functional team collaboration
• Excellent facilitator and communicator, both written and verbal

Must-Have Technical Skills:

• Jira
• Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe)
• Incident management & root cause analysis
• Basic understanding of database environments

Soft Skills:

• Proactive & self-driven
• Clear, structured, and persuasive communicator
• Strong team player and mentor
• Results-oriented with a focus on quality and punctuality
• Creative, pragmatic, and flexible mindset
• Capable of working independently while maintaining an end-to-end perspective

🌍 Languages

• Dutch (Fluent)
• English (Fluent)