Scrum Master

Job#: 3033556

Job Description:
Scrum Master

Location: Naperville, Illinois, St. Paul MN or Irving Tx

Employment Type: Contract

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Scrum Master who combines deep Agile expertise with a forward-thinking mindset around AI-enabled delivery. This role supports two engineering teams and plays a critical part in evolving how we plan, execute, and continuously improve our work. The ideal candidate is confident, adaptable, technically fluent, and excited to leverage AI tools to elevate team performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as Scrum Master for two cross-functional engineering teams, partnering closely with Product Owners and technical leads.
• Facilitate all Agile ceremonies and continuously refine team processes, including experimenting with new approaches.
• Act as a strong, constructive voice, challenging the team when needed and inviting challenge in return without defensiveness.
• Champion the adoption of AI tools to streamline delivery, such as summarizing weekly activity and analyzing defects.
• Lead Agile delivery across the teams, facilitating sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting in Azure DevOps (ADO) to track defects, severity trends, and ownership patterns.
• Help teams improve ticket quality and development workflows.

Required Qualifications

Experience: 7+ years as a Scrum Master in technology-related environments such as Digital, ERP, Mobile & Web, or Data Science & Engineering. Experience across multiple teams and workflows is required.

Technical Skills: Strong experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) for backlog management, sprint facilitation, and delivery tracking is required. Candidates must also have experience with AI platforms such as Claude or similar tools (e.g., Copilot) to analyze backlogs, build prompts, and improve team workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AI-driven analytics, automation, or workflow optimization.
• An early adopter mindset with a passion for AI-augmented Agile delivery.
• Exposure to mobile and ERP environments.

This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.