Senior Scrum Master III - Agile Coach & Delivery Lead

Primary Talent Partners; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Primary Talent Partners has an opening for a Scrum Master - III in San Francisco, CA. This W2 contract runs 12 months with potential extensions. The role focuses on coaching, facilitating, and enabling agile practices to help teams achieve sprint and PI goals.

The candidate will partner with Product Owners, Managers, and development teams to remove impediments, manage expectations, and drive continuous improvement in a fast-paced financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor in a relevant field (CS/IS/Business).
• 5 years IT work experience with 1 year of scrum execution.
• Knowledge of multiple agile methodologies and frameworks.
• Understanding of iterative and incremental development.
• Experience leading teams.
• PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe or equivalent certification preferred.
• Experience using agile tools: Jira, Jira Align, Confluence.
• Scrum/Scaled Agile experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan, lead, coach cross-functional teams on Agile practices.
• Facilitate sprint ceremonies and backlog health.
• Serve as primary hub between program/product management and development.
• Foster transparency, trust, and high-performing team dynamics.
• Support release planning with Product Owners and Managers.
• Coordinate production deployment activities with release teams.
• Track metrics like velocity, burn-down, and cycle time.
• Act as a change agent to maximize team productivity.
• Ensure effective communication between Agile team and Product Owner.
• Manage and resolve cross-team dependencies.
• Coordinate Scrum-of-Scrum activities with other Scrum Masters.

Skills

Leading teams

Agile coaching

Facilitation

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field

Tools

Jira

Jira Align

Confluence

Job description

Primary Talent Partners has an opening for a Scrum Master - III in San Francisco, CA. This W2 contract runs 12 months with potential extensions. The role focuses on coaching, facilitating, and enabling agile practices to help teams achieve sprint and PI goals.

The candidate will partner with Product Owners, Managers, and development teams to remove impediments, manage expectations, and drive continuous improvement in a fast-paced financial services environment.