Scrum Master

DLA Piper is a firm built on bold, exceptional, collaborative, and supportive values. Our people are the backbone of our success, and we offer a place to engage in meaningful work and grow your career at any stage of your professional journey.

About the role

The Scrum Master is a servant-leader and Agile coach accountable for establishing and enabling team and value stream effectiveness, leveraging Kanban principles to improve delivery speed, predictability, and value realization. The role focuses on how work is performed and flows through the system, not on scope or budget. The Scrum Master is responsible for improving delivery flow, removing impediments, and optimizing team collaboration within the value stream to deliver measurable business outcomes. This includes managing work in progress, improving cycle time, and ensuring alignment with value-driven priorities.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate team and value stream ceremonies (e.g., stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives), adapting practices to support successful delivery.
• Identify and remove impediments that limit team or value stream effectiveness or disrupt flow of delivery.
• Foster a culture of transparency, collaboration, accountability, and psychological safety for continuous improvement within the team.
• Enable effective work intake, refinement, and prioritization in partnership with TPMs and QA Leads, ensuring alignment to value-driven outcomes (without owning scope or priorities).
• Shield teams from unnecessary external disruption while promoting appropriate stakeholder engagement and alignment.
• Track and help teams use Agile metrics (e.g., cycle time, WIP, throughput) to support learning and improvement, not performance scoring.
• Facilitate coordination and collaboration across teams within the value stream to improve end-to-end delivery and reduce dependencies.
• Contribute to broader Agile adoption by partnering with other Scrum Masters, TPMs, QA Leads, coaches, and leadership.

Skills

• Understanding of Scrum and Agile frameworks and principles.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to lead without formal authority through influence and servant leadership.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience fostering continuous improvement and team maturity.
• Comfortable working in complex enterprise environments with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience working across teams and stakeholders.
• Comfort with ambiguity and evolving operating models.
• A coaching mindset (not task management) is critical.

Qualifications

• Minimum education: High School or GED.
• Preferred education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Certifications: PSM I / PSM II, CSM / A-CSM / Kanban, or SAFe Scrum Master certifications preferred.
• 10+ years of experience with cross-team coordination or scaled delivery.

Essential Job Expectations

• Effectively communicate, verbally and in writing, with clients, lawyers, business professionals, and third parties.
• Produce deliverables, answer phone calls, and reply to correspondence in an efficient and responsive manner.
• Provide timely, accurate, and quality work product.
• Successfully meet deadlines, expectations, and perform work duties as required.
• Foster positive work relationships.
• Comply with all firm policies and practices.
• Engage in both physical and sedentary activity, such as working at a computer for extended periods, participating in digital/virtual conference calls, and attending meetings as needed.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
• Perform all other duties, tasks, or projects as assigned.

Physical Demands

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.

Work Environment

This position offers a hybrid work schedule and can be based in any of our U.S. office locations.

Pay

The firm’s expected hiring range for this position is $149,276 - $237,355, depending on the candidate’s geographic market location, experience, skills, educational and professional background, and overall qualifications.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including medical, dental, vision insurance, and 401(k).