Scrum Master-Tennessee Locals Only(No Relocation)

Role: Scrum Master-Tennessee Locals Only(No Relocation)

Location: Remote

Job Description:
• Promote team health, agility, and delivery excellence through continuous improvement and coaching.
• Foster self-organization, ownership, accountability, and strong team dynamics.
• Provide agile coaching to assigned teams and support agile maturity across the organization.
• Lead all core Scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Refinement, Review, Retrospective), ensuring process integrity, efficiency, and time-boxing.
• Ask critical questions that challenge assumptions and continuously evolve agile practices.
• Manage team capacity and support reliable forecasting for predictable sprint and program delivery.
• Take accountability for sprint success by proactively identifying, removing, or escalating blockers.
• Hold teams accountable to performance expectations, team agreements, and agile best practices.
• Help manage delivery risks, dependencies, and impediments at the team and cross-team level.
• Build strong, collaborative stakeholder relationships that promote transparency and shared ownership.
• Coordinate cross-team and enterprise-wide dependencies to minimize delivery risk.
• Facilitate feedback loops and alignment through agile ceremonies and structured checkpoints.
• Create, modify, publish, and leverage standardized agile metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown, workflow health) to drive transparency and continuous improvement.
• Develop dashboards and reporting for team and leadership visibility.
• Maintain a single source of truth for delivery tracking, metrics, and documentation.
• Partner closely with engineering and QA teams to ensure timely, stable, and high-quality releases.
• Hands-on experience with agile lifecycle management tools, including Jira, Target Process, Confluence, and related reporting dashboards.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, release coordination, build processes, and DevOps practices.
• Working knowledge of common software development languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript) and frameworks.
• Familiarity with development environments and version control systems (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitLab).

Qualifications:
• 8 years of experience.
• Certified Scrum Master with experience supporting Agile teams and driving continuous improvement.
• Strong facilitator of Scrum ceremonies; removes blockers and improves delivery flow.
• Proficient with Jira/Confluence; experienced in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and team coordination.
• Effective communicator who bridges technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Basic understanding of software development concepts, APIs, cloud environments, and SDLC; able to collaborate closely with engineers and translate technical needs into actionable work.