Scrum Master - Agile transformation environment

Search Partner Group; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Search Partner Group, LLC is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to support a fast-paced technology organization in Arlington, TX. This hands-on leadership role focuses on coaching teams, removing impediments, and enforcing Agile practices to improve delivery predictability.

You will partner with product management, QA, and engineering leaders to manage priorities, dependencies, and testing as the organization undergoes digital transformation. Onsite Monday–Friday.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience as a Scrum Master or Agile lead.
• Strong knowledge of Scrum principles, ceremonies, artifacts, and iterative software development.
• Experience removing impediments, managing risks, and coordinating dependencies.
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, communication, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to interpret delivery metrics and drive continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives; establish goals, commitments, and working agreements.
• Collaborate with Product Managers/Owners to clarify requirements and align priorities with business objectives.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and coordinate testing, release planning, and delivery readiness.
• Coach teams and stakeholders on Agile practices and drive continuous improvement across the organization.
• Develop understanding of backend services and system architecture to support delivery decisions.
• Maintain Agile artifacts and dashboards to provide transparent delivery status to leadership.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile delivery

Facilitation

Coaching

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Scrum Master - Agile Transformation Environment

Location: Arlington, TX | Onsite Monday-Friday

Compensation: $120,000-$135,000 Base Salary + Annual Bonus

This Corporate is seeking an experienced, hands-on Scrum Master to support a high-performing, rapidly growing technology organization focused on developing and delivering scalable backend software services. These services power customer-facing web and mobile applications, making reliable delivery, effective testing, technical coordination, and cross-team collaboration critical to success. This role is ideal for a Scrum Master who is passionate about Agile as both a framework and a mindset, understands the realities of software product development, and can help teams deliver value in a fast-paced, evolving environment. The successful candidate will work closely with software engineers, product management, quality assurance, technology leaders, and dependent teams to improve delivery predictability, manage competing priorities, remove impediments, and strengthen Agile practices. The organization is undergoing significant digital transformation and continuing to evolve its Agile operating model. The Scrum Master will have the opportunity to influence how teams work, coach individuals and stakeholders, and help establish effective delivery practices as the organization scales. This is a hands-on leadership role, not simply a meeting facilitation or project administration position. The ideal candidate combines strong Scrum fundamentals with practical technical understanding, sound judgment, emotional intelligence, and the confidence to guide teams through complex challenges and changing priorities.

Key Responsibilities

1. Agile Facilitation and Team Leadership Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement. Establish clear sprint goals, realistic commitments, shared accountability, and effective working agreements. Promote self-management, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement. Identify and address ineffective meetings, unclear ownership, excessive work in progress, and recurring team challenges. Foster constructive communication, conflict resolution, and a culture of continuous learning.


2. Delivery Management and Execution Partner with Product Managers and Product Owners to clarify requirements, improve backlog readiness, and align priorities with business objectives. Monitor sprint progress, manage competing priorities, and identify delivery risks early. Help teams balance urgent requests, technical work, dependencies, and planned commitments. Coordinate testing, release planning, and delivery readiness across engineering, QA, product, and stakeholders. Promote realistic planning, sustainable delivery, quality, and business value rather than focusing solely on velocity.


3. Cross-Team Collaboration and Dependency Management Coordinate dependencies across Scrum Masters, engineering teams, product stakeholders, and technology leaders. Identify blockers, integration challenges, and delivery risks before they affect timelines or dependent applications. Facilitate prioritization and sequencing of shared backend services and competing demands. Communicate delivery impacts, clarify ownership, and drive resolution of cross-team impediments. Maintain alignment without creating unnecessary meetings or administrative overhead.


4. Agile Coaching and Continuous Improvement Coach team members, product stakeholders, and technology leaders on Scrum principles, Agile values, and effective delivery practices. Adapt Agile practices to team maturity, technical context, and business priorities. Use retrospectives, team feedback, and delivery metrics to identify root causes and implement measurable improvements. Help teams navigate organizational change, evolving responsibilities, and inconsistent processes. Share effective practices and support broader Agile transformation, applying scaled Agile concepts where useful.


5. Technical Collaboration and Quality Focus Develop a working understanding of backend services, software architecture, development workflows, testing, and release processes. Partner with engineering and QA to identify technical dependencies, integration risks, testing bottlenecks, and technical debt. Translate technical constraints into clear delivery risks and implications for priorities and timelines. Strengthen coordination between backend teams and the web and mobile application teams that consume their services. Remove organizational and process barriers while respecting engineering and architecture ownership.


6. Metrics, Transparency, and Stakeholder Communication Maintain accurate Agile artifacts, delivery dashboards, and reporting to support informed decisions. Monitor sprint goal completion, velocity trends, predictability, work in progress, cycle time, impediment resolution, and carryover work. Use metrics to identify trends and guide improvement rather than measure individual performance in isolation. Communicate delivery status, capacity, risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities to stakeholders and leadership. Promote data-informed decisions while accounting for team maturity, delivery context, and sustainable performance.


7. Organizational Agility and Transformation Help evolve Agile delivery practices, team structures, working agreements, and coordination as the organization grows. Improve workflows, clarify responsibilities, and strengthen accountability and decision-making across teams. Adapt practices to different team needs and levels of Agile maturity. Apply lessons from previous transformations to navigate organizational change and common adoption challenges. Foster experimentation, adaptability, continuous learning, and measurable improvement.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience as a Scrum Master, Agile delivery facilitator, or similar Agile team leadership role.


• Strong knowledge of Scrum principles, Agile values, ceremonies, artifacts, and iterative software development.


• Experience removing impediments, managing delivery risks, coordinating dependencies, and navigating changing priorities.


• Excellent facilitation, coaching, communication, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.


• Ability to interpret delivery metrics and use data to drive continuous improvement.


• Practical understanding of software development, testing, integration, and release processes.


• High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, adaptability, and the ability to balance servant leadership with accountability.


• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage competing demands in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience

• Experience supporting digital products, backend services, APIs, shared platforms, or distributed systems.


• Experience coordinating multiple development teams and managing cross-team dependencies.


• Experience with Agile transformations, organizational change, or rapidly growing technology organizations.


• Background in software engineering, QA, product management, or technical delivery.


• Experience in financial technology, banking, payments, or other complex, reliability-focused environments.


• Familiarity with scaled Agile frameworks and multi-team planning.


• Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I, or equivalent); comparable practical experience is also valued.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.