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Scrum Master / Delivery Manager (Staff) - Remote Contract Opportunity [ FastWater Staffing ]

Pinnacle Method Consulting · United States · 1 wk ago
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About the role

The ideal candidate is a highly organized delivery leader who excels at keeping teams aligned, managing dependencies, and maintaining visibility into execution progress. They are comfortable operating in fast-paced modernization programs and have a proven track record of helping teams deliver successfully under tight timelines.

Responsibilities

  • Lead sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives across multiple workstreams
  • Track team velocity, burndown metrics, and overall delivery progress against approved Levels of Effort (LOE)
  • Identify, escalate, and remove delivery impediments and blockers
  • Cook up dependencies and handoffs between workstreams and delivery teams
  • Maintain backlog hygiene, sprint boards, reporting dashboards, and delivery documentation
  • Ensure agile best practices and delivery governance are consistently followed
  • Support planning activities for migration and modernization initiatives

Requirements

  • Lead concurrent workstreams under aggressive delivery timelines
  • Strong facilitation, stakeholder communication, and team coordination skills
  • Proven ability to manage dependencies, risks, and delivery reporting
  • Experience supporting migration, modernization, or transformation-focused programs
  • Familiarity with migration-style backlogs, including:- Wave planning, per-application delivery tracking, per-object or work-item burndown management

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Delivery Manager, or Agile Project Manager within software delivery organizations
  • Strong understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent Agile certification
  • Experience supporting cloud migration, application modernization, or large-scale transformation initiatives
  • Strong proficiency with Jira and/or Azure DevOps
  • Experience working within multi-team or multi-pod delivery environments

Skills

  • Strong understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent Agile certification
  • Experience supporting cloud migration, application modernization, or large-scale transformation initiatives
  • Strong proficiency with Jira and/or Azure DevOps
  • Experience working within multi-team or multi-pod delivery environments

Benefits

N/A

Pay

TBD - based on skills and experience

Schedule

Immediate start

Location

Fully Remote (Maryland, U.S.)

Employment Type

Contract

Important Screening Requirements

We are seeking a Scrum Master / Delivery Manager (Staff) to drive agile execution across multiple modernization workstreams. This individual will be responsible for maintaining delivery momentum, facilitating agile ceremonies, managing dependencies, and ensuring transparency into progress against an accelerated delivery timeline.

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