Job#: 3029481 Job Description: Scrum Master
Location: Irving, TX or Charlotte, NC (Hybrid - 3x/week)
Employment Type: 12 Months Contract
Pay Rate: $61.10 and $64.10 per hour
Role Overview
We are seeking a Scrum Master who demonstrates a strong leadership presence with the ability to drive outcomes, influence without authority, and proactively escalate risks and impediments. This role requires an individual who is comfortable operating in ambiguity, exercising sound judgment, and engaging the right stakeholders at the right time to protect delivery commitments and reduce enterprise risk.
Key Responsibilities
- Actively drive resolution of team impediments, cross-team dependencies, and delivery risks by influencing Product Owners, technology partners, and leaders through clear, fact-based communication.
- Identify, assess, and escalate risks early to ensure leadership has timely visibility into issues that may impact scope, schedule, quality, or compliance.
- Escalate with intent and clarity, providing actionable context, options, and recommendations.
- Demonstrate ownership and accountability for surfacing concerns, challenging assumptions, and advocating for the team when delivery is at risk.
- Maintain a leadership presence during ceremonies and stakeholder interactions, confidently navigating conversations and reinforcing agile discipline.
- Operate as a trusted escalation partner, ensuring transparency into decision points, tradeoffs, and process overrides, while reinforcing enterprise agile and risk management standards.
- Facilitate the scrum process for moderately complex projects, non-projects, or maintenance work.
- Guide scrum teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
- Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities and achieve higher levels of team performance.
- Collaborate with product owners and project managers to communicate delivery of work, escalate key risks, and remove impediments.
Required Qualifications
Experience: 4+ years of Agile Scrum Master experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education.
Technical Skills:- Influential Leadership
- Risk & Dependency Management
- Executive Escalation
- Enterprise Agile Delivery
- Delivery Accountability
Compensation & Benefits
The pay rate for this position is between $61.10 and $64.10 per hour. Our organization offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans. We also provide an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) and a 401K program. Additional resources include a Health Savings Account (HSA), an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and access to professional development and training programs.
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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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join 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. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: 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. 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, 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. 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 Apex team member can provide.
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