Healthcare Data & AI Scrum Master — Remote

UST; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer matching

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

UST is seeking an experienced Technical Scrum Master to lead agile delivery for healthcare data and AI initiatives. You will partner with engineers, data scientists, and product owners to drive efficient sprint cycles and clear, testable stories.

The role emphasizes strong facilitation, governance of backlogs, and coordination across data engineering, cloud, and ML teams. This remote-US position offers competitive benefits and growth.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Agile/Scrum delivery supporting technical teams.
• 4+ years in US healthcare sector experience preferred.
• Experience with data engineering, cloud analytics, or AI/ML teams.
• Strong understanding of Scrum and Agile methodologies.
• Experience managing complex technical dependencies across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of AWS and cloud environments.
• Knowledge of data engineering and data pipeline architectures.
• Familiarity with healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7, X12/EDI).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Scrum Master and Agile delivery leader for one or more technical data/AI teams.
• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Agile ceremonies.
• Partner with Product Owners to maintain a healthy, prioritized, and technically actionable backlog.
• Ensure stories have clear acceptance criteria, dependencies, estimates, and appropriate technical detail before sprints.
• Drive predictable sprint execution and continuously improve team velocity, quality, and delivery.
• Identify and proactively resolve impediments affecting team productivity and delivery.
• Track and communicate sprint, release, milestone, dependency, and delivery risks.
• Facilitate cross-team coordination where multiple data, application, infrastructure, or ML teams have dependencies.

Skills

Agile/Scrum

Healthcare domain

AWS

Databricks

SQL

Jira

Stakeholder mgmt

Executive comms

Team facilitation

Data engineering

ML pipelines

Cloud environments

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Tools

Databricks

Spark/PySpark

SQL

Jira

Confluence

GitHub

Azure DevOps

AWS

Job description

UST is seeking an experienced Technical Scrum Master to lead agile delivery for healthcare data and AI initiatives. You will partner with engineers, data scientists, and product owners to drive efficient sprint cycles and clear, testable stories.

The role emphasizes strong facilitation, governance of backlogs, and coordination across data engineering, cloud, and ML teams. This remote-US position offers competitive benefits and growth.