Scrum Master

Duration: 11+ Months

Location: IA- Des Moines, Hybrid 3-4 days onsite

Overview: Every consultant belongs to a practice, an internal group of consultants and leaders with shared experience and expertise. Each of these practices aligns to one of the core services Turnberry offers to clients. As a Scrum Master, you will join Turnberry's Business Agility practice. Turnberry's Business Agility practice provides ways-of-working assessments with supporting improvement recommendations, Product Management and Agile Delivery education opportunities, team and enterprise-level Product and Agile coaching, and strategic staffing for each of the skills required to drive Agile and/or Project to Product transformation journeys.

Responsibilities:

Run the Architecture Team's Agile System (Flow + Cadence)

Facilitate the team's operating cadence: standups, planning, refinement, reviews/demos, retros, and syncs with stakeholders

Implement flow practices that work for architecture work (mix of intake, discovery, design review, enablement, and "as-needed" consults)

Manage and continuously improve the team's Kanban/Scrum hybrid approach (WIP limits, classes of service, SLA expectations)

Architecture Intake, Triage, and Prioritization

Run the architecture intake process (from epics/features/requests) with clear entry criteria

Partner with Product/Portfolio/Solution leadership to prioritize architecture work based on value, risk, dependencies, and delivery timing

Ensure architecture work is visible, sized appropriately, and sequenced to support PI outcomes and product roadmaps

Shift-Left Enablement (Make Architecture Easy to Consume)

Drive adoption of "shift-left" behaviors: early engagement, lightweight design reviews, and reusable patterns

Help architects package outcomes as consumable assets: reference architectures, golden paths, templates, checklists, guardrails, ADRs

Dependency and Stakeholder Management (Cross-ART)

Coordinate dependencies across ARTs, platform teams, security, data, and operations

Facilitate working sessions that resolve integration decisions and architecture direction quickly

Build strong partnerships with RTEs, Product Managers, System Teams, and Engineering leaders

Metrics and Transparency (Prove Value Without Vanity Metrics)

Create and maintain dashboards that show architecture throughput and impact, such as:

Lead time from intake ? decision/asset delivered

% of epics/features receiving architecture engagement

Bottleneck analysis and aging work

Rework avoided/defects reduced (where measurable)

Adoption of standards/patterns/golden paths

Prepare executive-ready summaries and highlight risks, tradeoffs, and constraints

Team Health and Continuous Improvement

Coach architects (and stakeholders) on lean-agile behaviors and pragmatic planning

Drive continuous improvement experiments and document working agreements

Protect focus time for deep architecture work while maintaining responsiveness

Qualifications:

4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master/Agile Team Coach (or equivalent)

Demonstrated experience supporting platform, architecture, engineering enablement, or enterprise enablement teams (not only product feature teams)

Strong proficiency with Kanban flow metrics and WIP management (lead time, cycle time, throughput, aging WIP)

Experience working with senior technical stakeholders and translating ambiguity into executable work

Strong facilitation skills: conflict navigation, decision-making sessions, and stakeholder alignment

Experience with agile tooling (Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.) and building operational dashboards

Preferred Qualifications:

SAFe experience in a scaled environment (ARTs, PI planning, dependencies); SAFe certs are a plus (SSM, SASM)

Background working with architecture artifacts (ADRs, reference architectures, standards, threat modeling checkpoints, NFRs)

Experience supporting governance-lite architecture processes (fast decisions, clear guardrails, minimal bureaucracy)

Familiarity with cloud-native delivery, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and event-driven/API patterns

The salary range for this role is $105,000 to $150,000 or the hourly equivalent. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, Turnberry Solutions offers benefits such as a comprehensive healthcare package (medical, dental, vision), disability and group term life insurance, health and flexible spending accounts, a utilization bonus, 401(k) with match, flexible time off for salaried employees, parental leave for salaried employees, and flexible work arrangements (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with Turnberry, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

At Turnberry, inclusion is one of our core values. We are committed to creating a positive and connected work environment for all and are fully invested in and focused on hiring and growing a diverse team of high performers. We believe that uniqueness in ideas, experiences, and backgrounds make us a better Turnberry: Turnberry is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of age, ancestry, family medical or genetic information, gender identity and expression, marital, military, or veteran status; national and ethnic origin; physical or mental disability; political affiliation; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; and any other protected characteristics.

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