Scrum Master - Hybrid

Smart IMS Inc; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 114,616,000 - 229,233,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart IMS Inc. in Austin, TX seeks an experienced Scrum Master to lead multiple scrum teams in a fast-paced tech environment. This hybrid contract role focuses on facilitating agile ceremonies, improving delivery, and coordinating with product owners and stakeholders to ensure timely, high-quality software releases.

The position requires CSM with 8+ years, Jira/Confluence proficiency, and a strong ability to coach teams, manage dependencies, and remove impediments across programs.

Qualifications

• Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years Scrum Master Experience.
• Proficient in Jira and Confluence; able to drive Scrum boards.
• Experience with large-scale agile, multi-team programs.
• Strong communication and negotiation abilities.

Responsibilities

• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other meetings.
• Influence team members to apply agile software development practices.
• Coordinate with product owner and stakeholders to ensure high-quality delivery on time and budget.
• Track dependencies and risks; establish mitigation plans.
• Communicate team velocity and sprint progress; maintain process docs.
• Remove impediments and support teams; partner with senior/project managers.
• Assist team with story selection, task definition, and commitment; drive focus on sprint goals.

Skills

CSM

Agile methods

Facilitation

Stakeholder mgmt

Team leadership

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Rally

Job description

Job Title: Scrum Master - Hybrid

Duration (Contract): 2-3 Months

Client Location: Austin, TX

Location Preference: Hybrid

As a Scrum Master, you will lead multiple scrum teams at the same time. Ideal candidates must thrive in a fast-paced team environment and have a strong passion for technology and innovation. As a scrum master you will be responsible for working within a scrum team to enhance messaging applications, and to support business critical internal integration projects.

Responsibilities:

• Execute on Scrum Master responsibilities that include organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other meetings
• Influence team members to leverage, follow, and support agile software development practices
• Interface with product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA, and Technology Operations to ensure high-quality delivery of software projects on time and budget
• Track internal and external Project dependencies
• Identify gaps/risks early and establish mitigation plans
• Track and communicate team velocity, sprint/release progress and maintain process documentation
• Provide accurate and succinct updates and escalations (with business impacts)
• Serve and support team by removing impediments and partnering with Senior Managers and Project Managers
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition; Identify and remove impediments; prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal; Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
• Empower the teams to self-organize; improve the productivity of the sprint teams; ensure that the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable
• Utilize scrum tools and frameworks to achieve efficiency both internally and externally
• Ensure the coordination of individual team deliverable are synchronized as necessary to achieve product releases

Required Skills, Experiences, Education and Competencies:

• Must be a Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years Scrum Master Experience
• Rally experience would be a plus
• Experience using Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) and maintaining Scrum Boards including feature break down to Epics, User Stories, Tasks and Subtasks
• Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values and procedures
• Must be an excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate
• Experience working with agile methodology on large scale, technically complex projects
• Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle
• Highly adaptable to changing environment
• Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
• Ability to coach teams to reach their highest potential
• Must be self-motivated, as well as, creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
• Must be collaborative in driving decisions and able to deal with multiple projects and deadlines
• Ability to hold team members accountable, set clear sprint performance standards, resolve sprint performance issues, keep team engaged and on task.
• Experience working in the financial industry and aware of basic financial concepts
• Experience taking Business requirement and writing technical requirement using BDD
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, written and verbal
• Self-starter, organized, ability to work on multiple projects and handle multiple scrum teams

The hourly range for roles of this nature are $40.00 to $80.00/hr. Rates are heavily dependent on skills, experience, location, and industry.

cyberThink is an Equal Opportunity Employer.