Sebastian Pauer

Scrum Master

Sebastian Pauer
Leipzig, Germany

Experience

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

Scrum Master

Telefónica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG

Supporting the RAITT large scale transformation as agile expert in the mass market program management team

  • Acted as scrum master and facilitator for a new portfolio management team
  • Facilitating team kickoff, regular team events, workshops and retrospectives
  • Coaching the team in establishing and continuously improving their roles and working mode
  • Setup and support of the process framework, requirement artifacts and dashboards in Jira
  • Close collaboration with way of working team, tribe leads, product owners and other roles to support the delivery of program goals by optimizing scaled agile processes (eg. PI planning)
  • Supported 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

Scrum Master

DB Systel GmbH

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)
  • Developed 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 2018 - Oct 2021
3 years 4 months
Aachen, Germany

Scrum Master

Amadeus Leisure IT GmbH

  • Coached multiple teams (distributed, english speaking) as Scrum Master to become self-managing, cross-functional DevOps teams
  • Coaching scrum framework and agile mindset
  • Facilitating scrum events
  • Managing impediments and dependencies
  • Helping establish team vision and focus
  • Supporting transition to DevOps and new tech stack
  • Coached Product Owners (backlog management, story mapping, impact mapping, vision boards)
  • Introduced and continuously improved agile practices, e.g.: feedback workshops, team self-selection, team health checks, open spaces, tribe level retrospectives
  • Support and facilitation of 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
  • Workshop facilitation (training, setup of new teams, PI planning)
  • Coaching a scrum team within the release train as certified SAFe Scrum Master
  • Supported the reorganisation and kick-off of the scaled organization
  • Custom scaled model with elements of SAFe and Spotify tribes
  • Taught and supported the use of Jira & Confluence (workflows, boards, automation)
  • Supported and facilitated the initial transformation to agile teams
  • Facilitating workshops to reorganise and kick-off new teams
  • Conducting agile/scrum training sessions
Jul 2014 - Jun 2018
4 years
Aachen, Germany

Project Manager

Amadeus Leisure IT GmbH

  • Managed several internal IT projects (classic PMI methodology)
  • Topics: product development, internationalization, security, tech stack migration
  • Drove the agile transformation as change agent and member of agile transformation task groups
  • Certified as Scrum Master and switched first projects to scrum framework
  • Co-founded the Scrum Master community of practice
  • Coordinated and optimized a multi-kanban system for seven operations teams
  • Identifying bottlenecks and removing impediments
  • Tracking and visualizing metrics
  • Facilitating retrospectives
  • Adapting the process to improve flow and lead time
  • Interfacing with business and development teams

Summary

Scrum Master with over 10 years of experience in IT projects and agile transformation. I join teams on their agile journey to learn, grow and succeed together.

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

Certified SAFe 6 Agilist

Scaled Agile Inc

Certified SAFe 6 Scrum Master

Scaled Agile Inc

Coaching Agile Transformations

ICAgile

Enterprise Agile Coaching

ICAgile

Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Master I

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Master II

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Product Owner I

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum with Kanban

Scrum.org

Scaled Professional Scrum

Scrum.org