SR. Consultant Scrum Master

About the Role

Alfanar is seeking a SR. Consultant Scrum Master to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time role focuses on driving the adoption of Agile and Scrum practices across IT and digital transformation initiatives. The successful candidate will enable effective delivery, foster high-performing teams, promote continuous improvement, and enhance organizational Agile maturity.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the adoption and implementation of Agile and Scrum methodologies across projects and transformation initiatives.
• Introduce Agile practices, frameworks, tools, and standards to improve delivery effectiveness.
• Establish and maintain Scrum processes, guidelines, and ways of working.
• Support teams transitioning to Agile and drive continuous improvement.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and ensure effective execution of Sprint activities.
• Monitor sprint progress, backlog delivery, capacity, risks, dependencies, and impediments.
• Partner with Product Owners and delivery teams on backlog management, prioritization, and refinement.
• Coach Scrum teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile principles and practices.
• Identify and resolve team, process, and organizational impediments.
• Monitor Agile metrics including velocity, throughput, cycle time, backlog health, and sprint performance.
• Support the implementation and effective use of Agile tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, and similar platforms.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Technical Leads, Developers, QA teams, and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to enterprise Agile transformation and organizational change initiatives.

Role Accountabilities

• Maintain updated soft and technical skills relevant to the job.
• Perform planned activities to meet operational and development targets as per delivery schedules.
• Utilize resources effectively to achieve objectives within efficient cost and time.
• Provide periodic reports detailing deviations and execution of planned tasks.
• Solve related problems and escalate complex operational issues.
• Ensure quality requirements are met to develop effective quality control and processes.
• Coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automation opportunities.
• Comply with relevant policies, procedures, and work instructions.
• Ensure compliance with relevant safety, quality, and environmental management procedures and controls.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 5 to 10 years of relevant experience is required for this role.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.