Hybrid Scrum Master & Agile Coach

DLA Piper; Fort Lauderdale (FL); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

DLA Piper is seeking a Scrum Master to serve as a servant leader and Agile coach. The role focuses on establishing team and value stream effectiveness, leveraging Kanban principles to improve delivery speed and value realization.

The Scrum Master will improve delivery flow, remove impediments, and optimize collaboration within the value stream, ensuring work aligns with value-driven priorities and business outcomes. This position offers a hybrid work schedule across U.S. offices.

Qualifications

• Experience with cross-team coordination or scaled delivery.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to lead without formal authority through influence and servant leadership.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience fostering continuous improvement and team maturity.
• Comfortable working in complex enterprise environments with multiple stakeholders.
• Coaching mindset is critical.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate team and value stream ceremonies as appropriate (e.g. stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives), adapting practices to support successful delivery
• Identify and remove impediments that limit team or value stream effectiveness or disrupt flow of delivery.
• Foster a culture of transparency, collaboration, accountability, and psychological safety for continuous improvement within the team.
• Enable effective work intake, refinement, and prioritization in partnership with TPMs and QA Leads, ensuring alignment to value-driven outcomes (without owning scope or priorities).
• Shield teams from unnecessary external disruption while promoting appropriate stakeholder engagement and alignment.
• Track and help teams use appropriate Agile metrics (e.g. cycle time, WIP, throughput) to support learning and improvement, not performance scoring.
• Facilitate coordination and collaboration across teams within the value stream to improve end‑to‑end delivery and reduce dependencies.
• Contribute to broader Agile adoption by partnering with other Scrum Masters, TPMs, QA Leads, coaches, and leadership.

Skills

Scrum & Agile

Facilitation & Coaching

Influence without authority

Communication & Interpersonal skills

Continuous improvement mindset

Stakeholder management

Cross-team coordination

Ambiguity handling

Education

High School or GED

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

PSM I / PSM II / CSM / A-CSM / SAFe Scrum Master certifications preferred

Job description

DLA Piper is seeking a Scrum Master to serve as a servant leader and Agile coach. The role focuses on establishing team and value stream effectiveness, leveraging Kanban principles to improve delivery speed and value realization.

The Scrum Master will improve delivery flow, remove impediments, and optimize collaboration within the value stream, ensuring work aligns with value-driven priorities and business outcomes. This position offers a hybrid work schedule across U.S. offices.