Agile Delivery Lead; Scrum Master - Temporary

Agile Delivery Lead (Scrum Master) - Temporary

United States

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 6:00 AM

NCSA College Recruiting is the world largest college recruiting platform, providing student-athletes content, tools, coaching and access to a network of 40,000 college coaches across 37 sports. NCSA is an online experience of IMG Academy, the world’s leading sports education brand and one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation in 2024 and Top Remote Places to Work in 2024.

IMG Academy provides a holistic education model that empowers student-athletes to win their future, preparing them for college and for life. Additional on-campus and online experiences include:

• Boarding school and camps, via a state-of-the‑art campus in Bradenton, Fla.
• Online coaching via IMG Academy+, with a focus on personal development through the lens of sport and performance

The Agile Delivery Lead helps build high performing software and infrastructure teams to deliver high-value products, platform components and projects using Agile development methodologies. The Agile Delivery Lead role combines the responsibilities of a scrum facilitator, an organizational leader, and a developer of team capacities. Your mission is to both protect teams and hold them accountable, by ensuring the psychological health of their members while ensuring delivery and quality.

As a member of each team’s triumvirate, you will serve alongside the Product Owner and Technical Lead on one or more development teams, shepherding the team’s development, implementing continuous improvement in process and communication, and educating the team in Lean and Agile methodology, practices, and values.

The Agile Delivery Lead will need to exhibit Lean/Agile leadership and embody the five values of scrum: focus, courage, openness, commitment, and respect. Able to wield a masterful toolbox of artifacts, techniques, and frameworks to deliver high value outcomes in the development process. Can understand how to develop psychological safety on teams; understand the importance of transparency and vulnerability, and facilitate a healthy diversity of opinions and views, improving communication on an ongoing basis and helps teams confront conflict in a productive fashion.

The Agile Delivery Lead has a keen sense of balance between UX design, engineering capabilities, user/customer needs, process, and business goals to facilitate building walking prototype skeletons and making smart tradeoffs. Can be a leader who unleashes the intrinsic motivation of individuals and teams, building esprit de corps through word and action.

• Develop a strong, self-sustaining team with rich and comprehensive software development practices around communication, estimation, planning, prioritization, and delivery.
• Nurture team health by demonstrating vulnerability in leadership, holding team members accountable for their actions, and ensuring a structured process is used to capture and share feedback within and outside the team.
• Maintain an open and transparent set of facilitation practices for clear communication of backlog, workload, throughput, and velocity, with clear metrics on delivery and milestones.
• Assess skills across team members based on the competency matrix of their discipline, performing gap analysis relative to workload and team responsibilities.

• Facilitate team meetings, including daily stand‑up, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.
• Support the Product Owner and/or Platform Lead in their efforts to facilitate a healthy team dynamic around scope and prioritization.
• Support the Technical Lead in their efforts to build iteratively with good technical decision‑making and the acknowledgment of trade‑offs to avoid or accept technical debt.
• Provide checks and balances between getting more done and maintaining high quality and efficiency.
• Support the Team by removing impediments that prevent them from delivering work.
• Ensure transparency into the team’s work through the sprint backlog, burndown chart and other metrics.
• Coordinate multiple teams…