Sebastian Pauer

Freelance Scrum Master & Agile Coach

Leipzig, Germany

Experience

Nov 2022 - Dec 2025
2 years 2 months
Munich, Germany

Freelance Scrum Master & Agile Coach

Self-Employed

Worked as a Freelance Scrum Master & Agile Coach for Telefónica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG in the Telecommunications sector.

Key engagement details:

  • Role: Transformation Program Management & Scrum Master.
  • Objective: Supporting the RAITT large scale transformation as an agile expert in the mass market program management team (an internationally distributed 1000+ person digital transformation program).
  • Acted as scrum master and facilitator for a new portfolio management team.
  • Facilitated team kickoff, regular team events, workshops, and retrospectives.
  • Coached the team in establishing and continuously improving their roles and working mode.
  • Set up and supported the process framework, requirement artifacts, and dashboards in Jira.
  • Collaborated closely with the way of working team, tribe leads, product owners, and other roles to support the delivery of program goals by optimizing cross-team coordination and scaled agile processes based on SAFe (e.g. PI planning).
  • Supported the management and resolution of dependencies, risks, and impediments.
  • Trained and enabled program members to leverage Jira and Confluence capabilities (Scrum Masters, Product Owners, program management, testers, ...).
  • Provided program-wide transparency via Jira-based metrics and automated dashboards (Jira structure and eazyBI).
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
8 months
Frankfurt, Germany

Freelance Scrum Master & Agile Coach

Self-Employed

Worked as a Freelance Scrum Master & Agile Coach for DB Systel GmbH in the Information Technology & Services sector.

Key engagement details:

  • Role: Scrum Master / Agile Coach.
  • Objective: Scaling and optimization of the TRAVIO mobile app development project with multiple distributed scrum and kanban teams.
  • Coached agile mindset and practices across teams and project roles (Product Owner, Scrum Master, architects, dev-team members, stakeholders).
  • Facilitated cross-team events and workshops (e.g. PI planning, retrospectives).
  • Designed, introduced, and optimized the agile scaling framework based on SAFe practices.
  • Established an agile community and promoted active participation across teams and roles to drive change and foster continuous improvement.
  • Supported project growth and onboarding of new teams as coach and facilitator.
  • Kicked off and coached a new scrum team as Scrum Master.
  • Managed the Jira and Confluence setup for the project.
Jul 2014 - Oct 2021
7 years 4 months
Aachen, Germany

Scrum Master & Project Manager

Amadeus Leisure IT GmbH

Key responsibilities and projects included:

As Scrum Master (2016-2021):

  • Engaged in multiple application development projects, product internationalization/market expansion, agile transformation and scaling, tooling, and architecture/tech stack migration.
  • Coached multiple software delivery teams (distributed, English speaking) as Scrum Master to become self-managing, cross-functional DevOps teams.
  • Coached scrum framework and agile mindset.
  • Facilitated scrum events.
  • Managed impediments and dependencies.
  • Helped establish team vision and focus.
  • Supported transition to DevOps and new tech stack.
  • Coached Product Owners in areas such as backlog management, story mapping, impact mapping, and vision boards.
  • Introduced and continuously improved agile practices, e.g.: feedback workshops, team self-selection, team health checks, open spaces, tribe level retrospectives, OKRs.
  • Supported and facilitated the agile community of practice / scrum master guild.
  • Facilitated and optimized portfolio planning processes on tribe level, e.g.: planning & review workshops, Jira portfolio setup.
  • Supported the kick-off and operation of a SAFe release train.
  • Facilitated workshops for training, setup of new teams, and PI planning.
  • Coached a scrum team within the release train as a certified SAFe Scrum Master.
  • Supported the reorganisation and kick-off of the scaled organization, utilizing a custom scaled model with elements of SAFe and Spotify tribes.
  • Taught and supported the use of Jira & Confluence, including workflows, boards, and automation.
  • Supported and facilitated the initial transformation to agile teams.
  • Facilitated workshops to reorganise and kick-off new teams.
  • Conducted agile/scrum training sessions.

As Project Manager & Kanban SDM (2014-2016):

  • Managed multiple internal IT projects using classic PMI methodology, with topics including product development, internationalization, security, and change management.
  • Drove the agile transformation as a change agent and member of agile transformation task groups.
  • Became certified as a Scrum Master and transitioned initial projects to the scrum framework.
  • Co-founded the Scrum Master community of practice.
  • Coordinated and optimized a multi-kanban system for seven operations teams.
  • Identified bottlenecks and removed impediments.
  • Tracked and visualized metrics.
  • Facilitated retrospectives.
  • Adapted processes to improve flow and lead time.
  • Interfaced with business and development teams.

Summary

Scrum Master/Agile Coach with over 10 years of experience in IT projects and agile transformation. Hands-on agile pract i t ioner with focus on del iver ing outcomes and enabl ing sustainable agil i ty across organizat ions.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2010 - Jun 2013

TU Braunschweig

Master of Science · Business Information Systems · Braunschweig, Germany

Oct 2006 - Jun 2009

VWA Stuttgart/ IBM Deutschland GmbH

Bachelor of Science · Business Information Systems · Stuttgart, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)

ICAgile

Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)

ICAgile

Certified SAFe 6 Agilist

Scaled Agile Inc

Certified SAFe 6 Scrum Master

Scaled Agile Inc

Coaching Agile Transformations (ICP-CAT)

ICAgile

Enterprise Agile Coaching (ICP-ENT)

ICAgile

Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills (PSFS)

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK I)

Scrum.org

Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS)

Scrum.org