Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to facilitate Agile delivery for software, IT, engineering, and digital transformation projects within the semiconductor/manufacturing environment. The Scrum Master will work closely with cross-functional teams to remove delivery impediments, facilitate Scrum ceremonies, improve team performance, and ensure projects are delivered according to agreed timelines and quality standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams supporting semiconductor-related IT, software, engineering, or manufacturing projects.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including:
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint Review / Demo
- Sprint Retrospective
- Backlog Refinement
- Coach and mentor team members on Scrum principles, Agile practices and continuous improvement.
- Work closely with Product Owners to ensure the Product Backlog is properly prioritised, refined and ready for development.
- Track sprint progress, velocity, burndown/burnup charts and other Agile metrics.
- Identify, track and remove blockers, impediments, dependencies and delivery risks.
- Coordinate with Engineering, IT, Software Development, QA, Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Business teams.
- Facilitate collaboration between software/IT teams and semiconductor engineering or manufacturing stakeholders.
- Ensure effective communication between technical teams, Product Owners, Project Managers and senior stakeholders.
- Monitor sprint and release commitments and proactively highlight potential delays or risks.
- Support release planning, roadmap planning and cross-team dependency management.
- Identify opportunities to improve team productivity, delivery processes and Agile maturity.
- Facilitate conflict resolution and help the team become increasingly self-organising and cross-functional.
- Maintain Agile project documentation, dashboards and reports using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Work with management to provide visibility of project status, risks, dependencies and delivery progress.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across the organisation.
- Ensure Agile practices are aligned with the organisation's quality, security, compliance and manufacturing processes.
Semiconductor Domain Exposure
Experience supporting projects in areas such as:
- Semiconductor manufacturing
- Wafer fabrication / Fab operations
- Assembly and test
- Semiconductor equipment and automation
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Factory automation
- Equipment integration
- Production systems
- Engineering applications
- Quality management systems
- Supply chain / inventory systems
- Product lifecycle management
- Data analytics and reporting
- IoT / Industry 4.0
- Digital transformation
- Cloud and enterprise applications
Required Skills
- Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies
- Practical experience as a Scrum Master
- Sprint and release planning
- Backlog management
- Stakeholder management
- Risk, issue and dependency management
- Facilitation and conflict resolution
- Team coaching and Agile transformation
- Continuous improvement
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience with Jira, Confluence or similar Agile tools
- Ability to work with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Software Engineering or a related discipline.
- 3–7+ years of IT/software/project delivery experience, with relevant Scrum Master experience.
- Experience in the semiconductor, electronics, manufacturing or engineering industry is highly preferred.
- Scrum certification such as CSM, PSM I/II, SAFe Scrum Master or equivalent is an advantage.
- PMP, PMI-ACP or other Agile/project management certifications are advantageous.
- Experience working with software development, IT applications, manufacturing systems or engineering teams is preferred.