The Senior Scrum Master at Censis is a key role responsible for driving strong agile execution and delivery consistency across multiple development teams. This role provides full-time Scrum leadership to 2–3 agile teams, improving predictability, strengthening agile discipline, and enabling sustainable delivery.
The Senior Scrum Master goes beyond facilitating ceremonies by actively coaching teams, removing impediments, managing cross-team dependencies, and using data to guide continuous improvement. This role also includes hands-on Jira administration to ensure delivery visibility, consistency, and tooling effectiveness.
Specific Responsibilities Scrum Leadership & Delivery Execution:
- Serve as the dedicated Scrum Master for 2–3 agile teams
- Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives
- Coach teams on accountability, ownership, and agile best practices
- Ensure clear sprint goals, readiness, and realistic commitments
- Identify, track, and remove blockers and impediments
- Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and escalations
- Partner with Product Owners and Engineering leaders to improve backlog readiness and flow
- Improve sprint predictability, throughput, and delivery consistency
Agile Practices & Continuous Improvement:
- Ensure effective backlog refinement and story readiness
- Drive actionable retrospectives with clear follow-through
- Promote consistent agile practices while adapting to team needs
- Identify systemic delivery challenges and lead improvement initiatives
Jira Administration & Reporting:
- Act as a Jira Administrator / Power User for assigned teams
- Configure and maintain Jira workflows, boards, dashboards, and reports
- Ensure consistent Jira usage and data integrity across teams
- Provide delivery dashboards and metrics for team and leadership visibility
Metrics, Risk & Communication:
- Own and monitor delivery metrics and flow indicators
- Surface delivery risks early through inspection and data analysis
- Communicate delivery health, risks, and progress clearly to stakeholders
Qualifications
- Scrum Master certification required (CSM, PSM, SAFe SSM, or equivalent)
- 5+ years of experience in software development environments
- 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
- Experience supporting multiple agile teams simultaneously
- Hands-on experience administering Jira
- Experience working with global or distributed teams
Skills
The Senior Scrum Master must demonstrate strong servant leadership, facilitation, and coaching skills. This individual must communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, use data to drive delivery improvements, and enforce agile discipline with a pragmatic, outcome-focused mindset.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
About UsFortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About the TeamSkills Required
- Scrum Master certification required (CSM, PSM, SAFe SSM, or equivalent)
- 5+ years of experience in software development environments
- 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
- Experience supporting multiple agile teams simultaneously
- Hands-on experience administering Jira
- Experience working with global or distributed teams
Fortive Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fortive and has not been reviewed or approved by Fortive.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is fully paid for 12 weeks for all parents, with fertility coverage via Progyny and generous adoption/surrogacy support. Backup child and adult care plus inclusive eligibility extend support across diverse family structures.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple PPO and HSA medical options include telemedicine and second-opinion services, alongside robust mental-health access through Spring Health with no‑cost therapy sessions. The breadth of medical and behavioral health resources is highlighted as a strength.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) provides a competitive employer match each pay period, with an additional company retirement contribution after one year of service. Financial wellness tools and an employee stock purchase plan further bolster long‑term savings.
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What We Do
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions. We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions. We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact. At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference. At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone. At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating. Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
