Agile Facilitator

About you

You are someone who wants to influence your own development. You’re looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests and be able to grow professionally. 

You bring to Applaudo the following competencies:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Strong hands-on experience as a Scrum Master, acting as the main Agile facilitator for development teams.
• Solid Business Analysis fundamentals, including requirements gathering, refinement, and stakeholder alignment.
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
• Experience facilitating local and remote Agile teams.
• Proven coaching and mentoring capabilities.
• Strong background promoting Agile mindset, values, and culture.
• Knowledge of additional Agile frameworks or methods (e.g., Kanban, XP, Lean).
• Deep experience with refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity tracking, retrospectives, and other Agile techniques.
• Good understanding of software development practices such as TDD, BDD, unit testing, test automation, version control, and CI/CD.
• Advanced English is required, as you will work directly with US-based clients.

You will be accountable for the following responsibilities:

• Act as the primary Scrum Master, ensuring Agile values, principles, and practices are consistently applied.
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies and support effective team decision-making.
• Coach and mentor Scrum teams to continuously improve delivery, collaboration, and predictability.
• Partner with the Product Owner to support backlog refinement, prioritization, and clarity of requirements.
• Apply Business Analysis skills to help translate business needs into clear, actionable user stories when needed.
• Identify and remove impediments, dependencies, and delivery blockers.
• Promote cross-team collaboration and eliminate siloed ways of working.
• Enable data-driven continuous improvement through metrics, insights, and retrospectives.
• Ensure goals, scope, and priorities are clearly understood across the team.
• Support effective demos, reviews, and product/system testing activities.
• Facilitate alignment between technical teams and business stakeholders when challenges arise.