Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Facilitator

Support, enhance, and develop innovative IT systems that power financial solutions across distributed, mainframe, and cloud platforms. As a key facilitator, you will lead Agile practices across multiple cross-functional teams delivering critical capabilities, helping to streamline delivery, foster collaboration, and drive continuous improvement.What You'll DoFacilitate Agile ceremonies including planning, daily stand-ups, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring they are engaging, purposeful, and time-effective.Maintain clarity of sprint goals and orchestrate cross-team synchronization to align dependencies and priorities.Track and resolve impediments related to environments, integration, data, and approvals across platforms, ensuring smooth delivery flow.Coach Product Owners, Business Analysts, and technical leads on backlog refinement, prioritization, and slicing user stories into small vertical slices, ensuring readiness.Manage cross-team dependencies and integration points, such as deployment schedules and batch windows, to minimize delays.Promote transparency via visual dashboards and radiators highlighting sprint goals, impediments, experiments, and key metrics such as goal attainment and backlog health.Drive continuous improvement by proposing and leading 1–2 small experiments per team each sprint, ensuring measurable progress.Foster a positive, inclusive environment by encouraging psychological safety, rotating spokespeople, and creating space for quiet voices through silent ideation rounds.Ensure healthy team dynamics by managing meeting participation and keeping ceremonies energetic and valuable, not rote routines.Ideal Candidate ProfileExperienced in facilitating Agile methodologies across 3–5 development teams simultaneously in complex environments.Skilled at quickly understanding technical and business requirements, translating technical jargon and industry acronyms into clear communication for all organization levels.Proficient in Agile tools such as VersionOne or equivalent platforms for boards, dependencies, impediments, and lightweight reporting.Adept at engaging stakeholders with energetic, participatory ceremonies that drive value and team cohesion.Successful in reducing backlog carryover, aging blockers, and decision latency without resorting to heavy processes.Capable of coaching teams on backlog readiness, sizing, and sustainable pacing.Tools & ProcessesMastery of VersionOne (or comparable tools) for boards, dashboards, dependencies & impediments.Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines (preferred).Preferred Certifications & ExperienceCertified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent (higher certifications welcome but not mandatory).Experience in informal scaling practices, such as Scrum of Scrums and quarterly alignment sessions.Familiarity with flow analytics like cycle time scatter plots and aging WIP snapshots.Publishing Pay Range: $48.00 – $50.00 HourlyJ-18808-Ljbffr