Senior Scrum Master

Title: Senior Scrum Master - hybrid

Pay Rate or Salary Range: $64/hr.

Benefits include health, dental, and vision (eligible on the 1st of the month following your start date).

Employment Type: Contract, Temp2Hire

Est. End Date: 10/3/2025
Schedule: Day shift - minimum 2 days per week onsite

Location: Atlanta, GA 3028
Job Code: JPC-10996/

Tekberry is looking for a highly qualified and motivated Senior Scrum Master to work hybrid with our client, a top-tier global automotive businesses company. As a W2 employee you will have access to health benefits.

Responsibilities:

• Coaches the Lean-Agile mindset.
• Coaches team in Kanban principles and practices.
• Facilitates continuous improvement.
• Assists upstream Kanban management and options selection.
• Helps team manage and improve flow leveraging limiting WIP, risk hedging (classes of service), feedback loop improvements, and establishment of outcome focused policies.
• Facilitates transparency of metrics, impediment removal, collaboration, and coordination.
• Facilitates & supports establishment of continuous learning & continuous improvement.

Backlog Management Practices

• Works with Product Managers & Product Owners and team members to learn and practice healthy backlog management and prioritization practices
• Facilitates the execution and improvement of backlog refinement
• Prepares for and facilitates release planning with teams
• Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination
• Responsible for improving quarterly intent planning and associated processes to develop and drive vision, roadmap, backlog and pre- and post- quarterly intent planning
• Facilitates periodic synchronization meetings, including delivery teams at the program level
• Monitors and tracks planning, completion and implementation metrics
• Provides data and informational updates to help all stakeholders track planning / implementation progress
• Summarizes team planning objectives, publishing and communicating for visibility and transparency

Lean / Agile Ceremony Facilitation

• Facilitates continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams
• Facilitates ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management
• Teaches new team members Agile-Lean values, principles, methods and frameworks, practices, and process
• Influences the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices
• Mentors Product Owners and team members in agile practices and continuous improvement

Delivery Team Support

• Helps identify and mitigate impediments to the team's Flow & Service Level Expectations
• Acts as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions - champions "Stop Starting - Start Finishing" behaviors
• Assists in the coordination of operational issue resolution
• Facilitates team development, mediates conflict, and encourages healthy team dynamics.
• Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization
• Leverages coaching skills to help the team learn to solve its own problems

Advice and Guidance

• Introduces and encourages team to explore healthy Agile development practices, focus on quality and technical excellence, predictable delivery, automation, and continuous delivery
• Teaches and encourages a balanced backlog that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability
• Helps the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements
• Promotes transparency through healthy communications and data integrity

Change Management

• Plans, designs and implements activities to transition the organization and people to the required future state.
• Identifies and implements change via influence.
• Utilizes proven methodologies, such as ADKAR, Lewin's model, McKinsey, etc. to lead and influence team and organizational change management.
• Demonstrates systems thinking skills in regards to how change will affect their teams and the organizational process, as a whole.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 2-5 years of working experience as a Scrum Master.
• Working experience in more than one of the following Lean-Agile methods or frameworks: Kanban, Scrum with Kanban, Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean applied to Knowledge Work.
• Working experience with Agile scaling frameworks, preferably SAFe.

Desirable:

• Scrum Master certification or equivalent certified professional (Desired for lower level - required for higher).
• Kanban Management Professional (KMP) or equivalent and higher.
• Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK).
• SAFe Agilist Certification.
• Experience and knowledge working with Lean-Kanban product technology and services teams.
• Kanban or equivalent certification - Kanban Management Professional (KMP) or higher.
• Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK).

We need hard-working, reliable employees. Tekberry offers a $100 payment for referrals.

Tekberry Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other protected categories under all applicable laws.

Tekberry, Inc is a Certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE).

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