Scrum Master Lead

Strategic Staffing Solutions; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions is seeking a Lead Scrum Master for a W-2 contract opportunity in Charlotte, NC. Hybrid schedule.

You will coach Agile teams, promote servant leadership, and partner with Product Owners to maintain prioritized backlogs and effective sprint rituals. The role requires strong Scrum expertise and a proven track record in delivering value through Agile practices.

Qualifications

• Graduation from a four-year college or university, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience with product and project concepts, and practices.
• 3+ years Scrum Master experience in addition to degree.
• Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Coach teams with servant leadership to enable self-organization.
• Identify process improvements and maintain a continuous improvement roadmap.
• Partner with Product Owner to manage backlog and roadmap.
• Educate teams and stakeholders on Scrum, Kanban, and scaling frameworks.
• Lead Agile events: daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retro.
• Provide metrics for data-driven decisions (burndown, velocity).
• Identify and manage impediments, risks, and dependencies until resolution.
• Facilitate communication between team and external stakeholders.
• Ensure artifact quality and team productivity.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile coaching

Product concepts

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Continuous improvement

Education

4-year degree or 7+ years exp

Job description

Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for a Lead Scrum Master for a W-2 contract opportunity.

Location: Charlotte, NC

Type:W-2Contract(NO C2C)

Contract: 12 months

Schedule: Hybrid

This is a W-2 contract opportunity, and candidates must be able to work on our W-2 only. NO C2C or 1099.

Required Qualifications:

• Graduation from a four -year college or university or 7 years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of experience with product and project concepts, as well as practices.
• Work experience in addition to degree: 3+ years of Scrum Master experience.
• Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I or equivalent)

Lead Scrum Master (Agilist) Job Description

As a Lead Scrum Master (Agilist), you will coach Agile teams to ensure the effective implementation of Agile principles and practices that result in measurable value delivery to customers. You will work closely with team members to foster a culture of continuous improvement and high performance. Exemplify a Servant Leadership style and is a role model of situations and behaviors for their teams to include

With minimal supervision the candidate will:

• Coach Teams: Exemplify Servant Leadership and guide teams in self-organization, cross-functionality, and Agile best practices. Guide team maturity by introducing new concepts and disciplines for value delivery. Mentor and coach Team members, promote Agile thinking/mindset, ensure adherence to the maturity of defined process.
• Continuous Improvement: Encourage a culture of continuous improvement by identifying areas for process enhancement and implementing solutions. Conduct team maturity assessments and maintain continuous improvement roadmap.
• Support Product Owners: Partner with the Product Owner to lead the team. Maintains the product backlog in partnership with the Product Owner and Team ensuring clear communication of product goals and a prioritized product roadmap.
• Promote Agile Practices: Educate teams and stakeholders on Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban and any other methodology or Agile scaling framework that the team might use. Ensure the Team is fully functional and productive, shielding them from external distractions. Ensure artifact quality.
• Facilitate Agile Events: Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, product backlog refinement, sprint reviews/demos, big room planning (or Product Increment planning) and retrospectives.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Provide metrics to support data-driven decision making to deliver value. Analyze the team’s performance metrics, such as burndown charts and velocity, and identify improvement areas.
• Impediment, Risk and Dependency Management: Proactively identifies and manages impediments, risks and dependencies until resolution.
• Stakeholder Management: Facilitate communication between the team and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and transparency.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience moving teams and organizations from waterfall to Agile methodologies.
• Excellent written, verbal, and electronic communication skills.
• Interacts effectively with others at all levels of the organization; makes persuasive and informative presentations.
• Highly skilled at building relationships and coaching individuals that are in the early stages of shifting to an Agile mindset and way of working
• “Big 4” or “boutique” consulting experience a plus
• Experience coaching value-driven backlog prioritization techniques
• Ability to consult with teams on the Agile discipline that works for them; e.g. Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• Passion for problem-solving
• Ability to take on multiple efforts of varying complexity
• A learner mindset - naturally curious to learn more and able to apply lessons learned from previous experiences