🚀 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
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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)