Genesis10 is currently seeking a Scrum Master for a hybrid position (3 days onsite per week required) with a Global Financial Institution located in Chandler, AZ or Charlotte, NC or Plano, TX. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity. This role is responsible for optimizing the flow of work and the value delivered by one or more Agile teams. The position is focused on serving the needs of the team to drive performance, predictability, and continuous improvement. This role supports transformation execution by helping teams maintain healthy backlogs, improve delivery discipline, and align work to agreed priorities and outcomes, ensuring impediments are resolved quickly and there is strong collaboration between teams and stakeholders.
Responsibilities: - Guide and coach one or more teams on Scrum practices and help strengthen their understanding of Agile principles and delivery discipline
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and other delivery routines as needed
- Help teams maintain a healthy backlog of deliverables, epics, and stories in collaboration with workstream leads and relevant stakeholders
- Promote structured backlog readiness by helping ensure work is sufficiently defined, sequenced, and understood before team commitment
- Facilitate dependency management, risk management, and impediment removal to support delivery timelines and team effectiveness
- Promote communication and collaboration within and across teams to support completion of transformation deliverables and sprint commitments
- Provide visibility into delivery plans, team progress, blockers, and risks to stakeholders, delivery leads, and transformation leadership
- Help the team define and reinforce working agreements, including definitions of ready and done, team norms, and execution expectations
- Enable teams to improve performance through continuous improvement practices, retrospectives, and a focus on measurable execution outcomes
- Track delivery, maturity, and performance metrics and review them with the team to identify improvement opportunities and execution risks
- Coordinate with adjacent teams and stakeholders to manage cross-team dependencies and support integrated delivery across the broader transformation
- Support the orderly advancement of work from planning through execution by helping teams stay aligned to priorities, commitments, and target outcomes
- Escalate material delivery risks, blockers, or misalignment issues in a timely manner and help drive resolution
- Mentor more junior Scrum Masters or delivery participants where appropriate and help promote stronger Agile practices across the organization
Requirements: - Strong knowledge of Scrum and Agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and dependency management
- Experience facilitating Agile delivery for technology programs, products, or transformation initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and evolving priorities
- Ability to coordinate the flow of work across deliverables, epics, and stories to support incremental and predictable delivery
- Strong facilitation skills with the ability to run effective team ceremonies, working sessions, and cross-team alignment meetings
- Experience managing team dependencies, delivery risks, impediments, and escalation paths in a structured and timely manner
- Ability to maintain a healthy and prioritized backlog in partnership with delivery leads, workstream leads, or sponsoring stakeholders
- Strong communication skills with the ability to provide clear visibility into plans, progress, blockers, and delivery risks
- Experience using delivery metrics to assess team performance, delivery health, and opportunities for continuous improvement
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to promote effective communication across business, technology, and transformation stakeholders
- Ability to coach teams on Agile ways of working and reinforce agreed norms, definitions, and team practices
- Experience working in a fast-paced and complex environment with evolving priorities and cross-functional dependencies
- Working knowledge of Agile tooling and workflow tracking practices used to manage stories, sprint commitments, and delivery progress
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through in support of execution discipline
- Ability to support delivery of transformation initiatives without requiring deep specialization in the underlying technical domain
- Strong problem-solving skills and judgment in helping teams navigate delivery friction and competing priorities
Pay range: $63.94 - $71.94 per hour
Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position. If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply! Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10: - Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
- The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
- Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
- Behavioral Health Platform
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
- 401K
- Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
- Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)
For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.
Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
