Scrum Master

Charles Schwab Corporation; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles Schwab Corporation in Texas seeks a Scrum Master to lead Agile delivery across software teams. You will facilitate planning, ensure backlog readiness, manage dependencies, and remove blockers to ensure reliable and high-quality software delivery.

Working with engineering, product, and quality teams, you will apply Agile fundamentals and analytics to improve alignment and outcomes. The role emphasizes on-site collaboration in Southlake, TX with opportunities to leverage AI-enabled tooling

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a Scrum Master, Agile facilitator, project coordinator, or delivery professional.
• Experience supporting software development teams and collaborating across engineering, product, quality, and business functions.
• Experience using Agile lifecycle management platforms (Rally, Jira, Azure DevOps or similar).
• Demonstrated facilitation, communication, problem solving, and decision making to remove impediments.
• Experience using analytics and reporting to evaluate team effectiveness and delivery outcomes.
• Ability to learn and apply AI-enabled tools and automation for planning and coordination.

Responsibilities

• Help software development teams deliver reliable, resilient, and modern technology solutions.
• Facilitate planning and execution, strengthen backlog readiness, coordinate dependencies.
• Identify and remove delivery impediments to improve outcomes.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and quality teams to improve alignment and decisions.
• Apply delivery metrics and AI-enabled tools to support work decomposition and progress tracking.

Skills

Agile fundamentals

Sprint planning

Backlog management

Dependency management

Continuous improvement

Facilitation

Communication

Problem solving

Decision making

Analytics & reporting

AI-enabled tools

Delivery coordination

Tools

Rally

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

As a Scrum Master, you will help software development teams deliver reliable, resilient, and modern technology solutions. You will create an effective Agile environment by facilitating planning and execution, strengthening backlog readiness, coordinating dependencies, and removing impediments that could affect delivery outcomes.

Working across engineering, product, and quality teams, you will use Agile Fundamentals, Facilitation, Stakeholder Management, and Problem Solving to improve alignment and help teams make informed decisions. You will also apply delivery metrics and AI-enabled tools to support work decomposition, progress tracking, and continuous improvement.

Your impact will be reflected in stronger team effectiveness, predictable delivery, and improved software quality. Success requires collaborative leadership, sound decision-making, and the adaptability to guide teams through changing priorities while advancing modern engineering and automation practices.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile team facilitator, project coordinator, or related delivery professional.
• Working knowledge of Agile Fundamentals, sprint planning, backlog management, Dependency Management, and continuous improvement practices.
• Experience supporting software development teams and collaborating across engineering, product, quality, and business functions.
• Experience using Agile lifecycle management platforms such as Rally, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Demonstrated Facilitation, Communication, Problem Solving, and Decision Making skills with the ability to identify and remove delivery impediments.
• Experience using Analytics & Reporting to evaluate team effectiveness and improve delivery outcomes.
• Ability to learn and apply AI-enabled tools and automation techniques that improve planning, coordination, and delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying Artificial Intellidence (AI) tools to backlog management, work decomposition, reporting, or team productivity.
• Experience coordinating delivery across multiple teams, shared dependencies, or program-level planning activities.
• Familiarity with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or other approaches to Agile delivery at scale.
• Exposure to software development, quality engineering, product management, or technical delivery environments.
• Experience using performance metrics, analytics, or automation to support Process Improvement.
• Interest in developing broader delivery orchestration, Release Train Engineer, or engineering enablement capabilities.
• Adaptability and commitment to Continuous Learning as delivery practices and technologies evolve.

In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.