Scrum Master/Agile

Support, enhance, and develop innovative IT systems that power financial solutions across distributed, mainframe, and cloud platforms. As a key facilitator, you will lead Agile practices across multiple cross-functional teams delivering critical capabilities, helping to streamline delivery, foster collaboration, and drive continuous improvement.

What You'll Do

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including planning, daily stand-ups, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring they are engaging, purposeful, and time-effective.
• Maintain clarity of sprint goals and orchestrate cross-team synchronization to align dependencies and priorities.
• Track and resolve impediments related to environments, integration, data, and approvals across platforms, ensuring smooth delivery flow.
• Coach Product Owners, Business Analysts, and technical leads on backlog refinement, prioritization, and slicing user stories into small vertical slices, ensuring readiness.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and integration points, such as deployment schedules and batch windows, to minimize delays.
• Promote transparency via visual dashboards and radiators highlighting sprint goals, impediments, experiments, and key metrics such as goal attainment and backlog health.
• Drive continuous improvement by proposing and leading 1–2 small experiments per team each sprint, ensuring measurable progress.
• Foster a positive, inclusive environment by encouraging psychological safety, rotating spokespeople, and creating space for quiet voices through silent ideation rounds.
• Ensure healthy team dynamics by managing meeting participation and keeping ceremonies energetic and valuable, not rote routines.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Experienced in facilitating Agile methodologies across 3–5 development teams simultaneously in complex environments.
• Skilled at quickly understanding technical and business requirements, translating technical jargon and industry acronyms into clear communication for all organization levels.
• Proficient in Agile tools such as VersionOne or equivalent platforms for boards, dependencies, impediments, and lightweight reporting.
• Adept at engaging stakeholders with energetic, participatory ceremonies that drive value and team cohesion.
• Successful in reducing backlog carryover, aging blockers, and decision latency without resorting to heavy processes.
• Capable of coaching teams on backlog readiness, sizing, and sustainable pacing.

Tools & Processes

• Mastery of VersionOne (or comparable tools) for boards, dashboards, dependencies & impediments
• Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines (preferred)

Preferred Certifications & Experience

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent (higher certifications welcome but not mandatory)
• Experience in informal scaling practices, such as Scrum of Scrums and quarterly alignment sessions
• Familiarity with flow analytics like cycle time scatter plots and aging WIP snapshots

Publishing Pay Range: $48.00 - $50.00 Hourly