Scrum Master Lead
Allianz
Posted on Jan 9, 2026
About the Job
As a Scrum Master Chapter Lead, you’ll be the driving force behind Agile excellence. You’ll lead a community of Scrum Masters, set the standards for best practices, and ensure squads deliver value with agility and purpose.
This role blends leadership and hands-on expertise: half your time shaping the chapter—coaching, staffing, and fostering growth; the other half working within a product team to stay close to delivery.
If you’re passionate about empowering people, building high-performing teams, and championing Agile transformation, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.
What you do
- Lead the Chapter (50% of your time): Build the profession, set the bar for practices and templates, and host chapter ceremonies that spread best practices, innovation, and knowledge.
- Practice your craft (50% of your time): Act as a senior Scrum Master (or Agile Coach) within a product team to keep your skills sharp and stay close to delivery.
- Talent development & coaching: Mentor chapter members, grow their careers and capabilities, and foster an Agile mindset grounded in values and principles.
- Staffing & capacity: Staff squads and tribes with the right mix of internal/external talent; balance workloads so teams are effective—not overworked.
- Performance & feedback: Run feedback cycles, recognition, and development plans; mediate conflicts with empathy and fairness.
- Community & communication: Keep open channels; run engaging chapter sessions that drive innovation and actionable knowledge sharing.
- Admin & budget oversight: Manage budgets, compensation inputs, and compliance with local regulations.
- Agile advocacy & change: Be a change agent—aligning with Tribe and Squad leaders to unlock performance and embed Agile ways of working.
What you bring
- Deep Agile expertise: Strong hands‑on experience as a Scrum Master/Agile Coach, with the ability to define, teach, and scale practices.
- Leadership & mentoring: A track record of developing people and building high‑trust, high‑performance teams.
- Communication & collaboration: Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management across product, tech, and business.
- Resource planning: Pragmatic capacity and prioritization skills to match talent with outcomes.
- Quality & process mindset: You raise the bar for craftsmanship, flow, and continuous improvement.
- Change leadership: Comfort guiding teams and leaders through change—grounded in Agile values and principles.
What we offer
- We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
- We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
- From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
- Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.
