Job Details

Scrum master

Remote

$55/hr

No H1Bs

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Job Description

- Promote team health, agility, and delivery excellence through continuous improvement and coaching.

- Foster self-organization, ownership, accountability, and strong team dynamics.

- Provide agile coaching to assigned teams and support agile maturity across the organization.

- Lead all core Scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Refinement, Review, Retrospective), ensuring process integrity, efficiency, and time-boxing.

- Ask critical questions that challenge assumptions and continuously evolve agile practices.

- Manage team capacity and support reliable forecasting for predictable sprint and program delivery.

- Take accountability for sprint success by proactively identifying, removing, or escalating blockers.

- Hold teams accountable to performance expectations, team agreements, and agile best practices.

- Help manage delivery risks, dependencies, and impediments at the team and cross-team level.

- Build strong, collaborative stakeholder relationships that promote transparency and shared ownership.

- Coordinate cross-team and enterprise-wide dependencies to minimize delivery risk.

- Facilitate feedback loops and alignment through agile ceremonies and structured checkpoints.

- Create, modify, publish, and leverage standardized agile metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown, workflow health) to drive transparency and continuous improvement.

- Develop dashboards and reporting for team and leadership visibility.

- Maintain a single source of truth for delivery tracking, metrics, and documentation.

- Partner closely with engineering and QA teams to ensure timely, stable, and high-quality releases.

- Hands-on experience with agile lifecycle management tools, including Jira, Target Process, Confluence, and related reporting dashboards.

- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, release coordination, build processes, and DevOps practices.

- Working knowledge of common software development languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript) and frameworks.

- Familiarity with development environments and version control systems (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitLab).

Qualifications

- 5 years of experience.

- Certified Scrum Master with experience supporting Agile teams and driving continuous improvement.

- Strong facilitator of Scrum ceremonies; removes blockers and improves delivery flow.

- Proficient with Jira/Confluence; experienced in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and team coordination.

- Effective communicator who bridges technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Basic understanding of software development concepts, APIs, cloud environments, and SDLC; able to collaborate closely with engineers and translate technical needs into actionable work.