Scrum Master IV

About the role

Lead Scrum Master for a multi‑year data transformation program moving the on‑premises data warehouse to AWS, working with Agile Working Groups across customer, finance, HR, and Enterprise Asset Management areas. The role involves working with multiple and/or larger‑scale teams, driving solutions to complete issues across teams, and ensuring Agile framework integrity with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Ensures the Team is fully functional and productive, shielding them from external interfaces.
• Exemplifies a servant leadership style; role models situations and behaviors for their teams, including removing barriers and impediments that prevent the team from completing work.
• Captures metrics to monitor Team and project health (Burn‑Down Chart, velocity, etc.); mentors Team members and promotes Agile thinking, ensuring adherence to the process.
• Facilitates estimation activities (story points, Planning Poker).
• Maintains the backlog and physical Scrum (task) board in partnership with the Team and Product Owner.
• Ensures artifact quality.
• Captures and tracks impediments, risks and dependencies until resolution.
• Updates the team’s improvement backlog with commitments from the Retrospective.
• Completes and shares the team’s Commitment report and End of Sprint Report based on the Demo and Product Owner acceptance.

Requirements

• Graduation from a four‑year college or university or 7+ years experience in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years experience with project concepts and practices.
• 3+ years of Scrum Master experience (in addition to degree).
• Scrum Master certification (CSM).

Skills

• Experience moving teams and organizations from waterfall to Agile methodologies.
• Excellent written, verbal, and electronic communication skills.
• Ability to interact effectively with others at all levels of the organization and make persuasive, informative presentations.
• Data experience (Jira data) is a big plus.
• Ability to plan, organize, and develop metrics to assist in sprint planning and sprint management.

Benefits

No PTO or traditional benefits; ACA‑compliant supplemental package available for enrollment.

Pay

$78.00‑$88.00 per hour; W2 contract.