Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Facilitate all Agile ceremonies — Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.
• Coach teams on Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and broader Agile practices to raise delivery maturity.
• Proactively identify and remove impediments so teams can meet their sprint commitments.
• Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and high performance.
• Monitor sprint progress, velocity, and team capacity to drive predictable, sustainable delivery.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, budgets, and resource allocations.
• Coordinate cross‑functional partners across Product, Engineering, QA, Architecture, Operations, and business stakeholders.
• Track deliverables and ensure timely execution against roadmap commitments.
• Manage scope, risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests with clear mitigation plans.
• Drive release planning and delivery governance across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and key decisions to leadership in a timely, transparent manner.
• Provide executive‑level reporting and metrics on project health and team performance.
• Facilitate decision‑making and alignment across technical and business teams.
• Manage vendor and third‑party partner coordination where applicable.
• Ensure initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Establish and track KPIs including sprint velocity, burndown trends, release predictability, and quality metrics.
• Drive process improvements that optimize quality, productivity, and customer outcomes.
• Support continuous integration, release planning, and deployment‑readiness activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Project Manager, or Agile Program Manager.
• Proven track record managing software development projects in Agile environments.
• Expertise with Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or other Agile frameworks.
• Hands‑on experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar Agile management tools.
• Strong understanding of the SDLC, software development practices, and release management.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, organizational, and stakeholder‑management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), PMI‑ACP, or SAFe certification.
• PMP certification.
• Experience leading cloud, digital transformation, mobile, web, or enterprise platform initiatives.
• Experience leading distributed and offshore teams.

Pay

$60‑$70 per hour, depending on experience level.

Schedule

Contract position, 40 hours per week.

About the Company

Peterson Technology Partners (PTP) is an IT staffing and recruiting firm based in Park Ridge, IL, with over 28 years of experience and more than 500 employees and consultants. PTP focuses on matching professionals with IT jobs and helping clients make informed hiring decisions.