Scrum Master

• Must be local to Chicago, IL. Position is 2 days a week in downtown Chicago.
• 6+ years as a Scrum Master
• Experience working in Scaled Agile Environment.
• Extensive experience in Insurance domain
• Experience with JIRA align
• AI experience

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
-Managing daily scrum ceremonies.
-Have to timebox discussions, want someone who can take accountability for action items.
-Encourage participating without dominating convos.
-Help drive agile principles and values.
-Mentor and coach team members and product and business on best practices.
-Help identify and mitigate blockers.
-Collaborate with integrated technologies and teams.
-Serves, leads, coaches, and supports multiple Agile Scrum Teams on complex initiatives, with teams consisting of internal & external (onshore and offshore) as well as business and technical resources in the delivery of IT and business products and solutions.
-Responsible for product delivery.
-Facilitates Scrum ceremonies and agile practices (such as daily standups, sprint review meetings, retrospective meetings, cross-team coordination, and etc.), alongside the product owner, ensuring that Scrum Teams adhere to the Scrum values of courage, focus, commitment, respect and openness in delivering IT solutions.
-Identifies and resolves delivery impediments to optimize delivery flow.
-Appropriately leads resolution of complex impediments and escalates impediments.
-Manages risks and issues and acts to ensure they do not recur.
-Fosters an environment of continuous improvement / learning and drives substantial improvement to the team (e.g., via the retrospective process).
-Guides team members in achieving maturity in Agile principles and Scrum practices, developing a proven track record of driving consistent velocity and velocity increases on mature teams.
-Proactively monitors and assesses team health and project needs.
-Serves as recognized Agile subject matter expert, thought leader, and mentor with extensive knowledge of Agile processes, tools, best practices, and standards.
-Provides guidance to more junior Scrum Masters on Agile Reviews and provides feedback on potential new tools / processes in the Agile space and is a visible champion for adopting them once ratified.
-Creates a strong team environment, with high team morale and cohesion
-Supports the Product Owner in managing backlog and guides the Product Owner / Scrum Team in prioritization, including maintaining relevant metrics.
-Maintains strong relationships within their Agile team, particularly with the Product Owner.
-Coordinates interactions within and outside the Scrum Team.
-Builds a trusting and safe environment within the team, Product Owners, and other stakeholders.
-Facilitates and manages conflict resolution within the team and key stakeholders; escalates more serious conflicts to leadership.
-Promotes practices that ensure delivery of quality products, ensuring that transparency is maintained around delivery progress, quality and schedule.
-May perform additional duties as assigned.
Skills:
-Skills, Knowledge & Abilities Prior experience with Agile Scrum methodology in a Scrum Master role.
-Solid experience acting as a servant -leader with strong coaching and mentoring skills; ability to get work done without assigning out / dictating tasks.
-Experience on teams delivering modern software for enterprises using Agile methodologies.
-Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with peers and team members.
-Excellent personal organizational skills and prior experience using Agile management tools such as Jira Proven track record of experience applying App. Dev. best practices on an initiative (e.g., automation, CI/CD pipelines) and consistently adopts these best practices as appropriate
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Chicago, IL.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $70.00 - $80.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Chicago,IL.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Nov 14, 2025.
>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.