Senior Scrum Master--100% REMOTE

Beacon Hill; United States; Remote; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill is looking for a Senior Scrum Master to support its diverse teams in the financial services sector, emphasizing agile methodologies. The ideal candidate should possess excellent coaching skills, understand Agile principles, and be adaptable to various team dynamics while enhancing overall productivity.

Benefits

100% remote work

Flexible work hours

Robust benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience in Agile environments, preferably financial services.
• Ability to lead diverse scrum teams and coach effectively.
• Strong understanding of Scrum and Kanban frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Guide Scrum teams in adopting Agile practices tailored to their needs.
• Facilitate sprint planning and daily standups.
• Help eliminate impediments to productivity.

Skills

Agile principles

Coaching

Communication

Problem Solving

Team Leadership

Education

5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

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Base pay range

$70.00/hr - $80.00/hr

HIGHLIGHTS:

-TWO OPENINGS, TWO different teams

-100% REMOTE

-Product Model background highly preferred

-Financial Services highly preferred

-Need someone NOT just from a SAFe background--need a flexible, common sense approach and someone who can pivot/adapt.

Job Summary

We are seeking a seasoned Senior Scrum Master to support our upcoming initiatives. This role will be responsible for coaching, guiding, and leading up to two Scrum teams through Agile processes with a strong emphasis on collaborative, team-tailored execution. The ideal candidate will bring exceptional interpersonal skills, the ability to flex their coaching style to meet diverse team maturity levels, and a strong understanding of Agile principles applied in pragmatic, real-world environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and coaching to Scrum teams to adopt and optimize Agile practices in a way that fits their specific needs.

• Act as a key consultant to Product Owners in building and maintaining roadmaps, release plans, and long-term strategic vision.

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and demos.

• Drive process improvements through Agile best practices tailored to individual team dynamics.

• Help teams identify and eliminate impediments to productivity and morale.

• Promote transparency, accountability, and cross-team collaboration.

• Work closely with business stakeholders, engineers, and product managers to ensure goals and timelines are met.

• Use metrics and team feedback to continuously refine team performance and product delivery.

• Encourage and model a proactive, solutions-oriented approach to problem solving.

• Contribute to building an Agile Center of Excellence and broader organizational adoption of product-oriented mindsets.
  
  

Preferred Background & Skills

• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master in Agile environments, preferably working in product models and cross-functional teams.

• Experience coaching teams of varying maturity levels, including new and transitioning teams.

• Strong background in financial services and experience with data migration and data tools such as ETL pipelines and Snowflake.

• Experience working with Salesforce teams is a plus.

• Must have demonstrated success in team coaching, engagement strategies, and improving team output and cohesion.

• Strong understanding of Scrum and Kanban frameworks. Candidates who are heavily SAFe-oriented or rigid in methodology will not be a fit.

• Ability to guide team members and leadership in aligning Agile principles with business strategy.

• Highly articulate communicator and strong driver of team initiatives.

• Experience working with Jira, Confluence, and other Agile collaboration tools.

• Exceptional emotional intelligence, adaptability, and critical thinking.
  
  

Important Notes

• This is a non-exempt contract role with a possibility to extend, but not guaranteed to convert.

• The selected hire will work with both the data foundations and Salesforce-adjacent teams and must be able to support teams of various sizes and agile fluency.
  

Beacon Hill is an equal opportunity employer and individuals with disabilities and/or protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

California residents: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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Company Profile:

Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs.

Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming/Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production/Support and ERP roles.

Learn more about Beacon Hill and our specialty divisions, Beacon Hill Associates, Beacon Hill Financial, Beacon Hill HR, Beacon Hill Legal, Beacon Hill Life Sciences and Beacon Hill Technologies by visiting www.bhsg.com.

Benefits Information:

Beacon Hill offers a robust benefit package including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, and federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations to those that meet eligibility. Upon successfully being hired, details will be provided related to our benefit offerings.

We look forward to working with you.

Beacon Hill. Employing the Future

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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