Agile Scrum Master

Scrum Master - Hybrid (12+ month contract)

Location:

Chandler, AZ. Contract role for a Global Financial Institution. Minimum 3 days per week onsite.

• Facilitate and continuously improve Scrum ceremonies:
  Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review/Demo, and Retrospectives.
• Lead PI Planning preparation for the team, ensuring objectives, dependencies, risks, and capacity assumptions are ready.
• Create stakeholder transparency by communicating plans, progress, risks, and dependencies using Jira/Jira Align.
• Proactively manage delivery risk, including dependency mapping, impediment removal, and ensuring compliance with Enterprise Change Management.
• Partner with Product Owner/Product Manager to maintain a healthy backlog with clear priorities and ready stories.
• Leverage Copilot Chat (AI) to help formulate and decompose deliverables into epics and user stories.
• Use Jira Software Plans (Advanced Roadmaps) to validate and communicate the team's plan.
• Use metrics (WIP, cycle time, throughput) to drive team improvement.
• Coach for team health and performance, focusing on psychological safety, conflict navigation, and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of delivery experience on Agile teams in complex enterprise environments.
• Minimum 1 year of AI experience, preferably utilizing Copilot.
• Demonstrated mastery in Scrum facilitation and coaching.
• Scaled Agile experience in an ART model, including PI Planning preparation and dependency/risk management.
• Practical experience leveraging Copilot Chat (AI) to accelerate deliverable formulation and decomposition.
• Experience creating and maintaining Jira Software Plans (Advanced Roadmaps) views.
• Comfort operating in governance/change-control environments.
• Hybrid schedule requirement of a minimum of 3 days per week onsite.

• Servant leader who removes friction, protects team focus, and builds trust.
• Facilitator who designs sessions that drive decisions and outcomes.
• Coach who can shift teams from unpredictable delivery to stable flow.
• Systems thinker who identifies root causes and improves the delivery system.
• Outcome-first partner to Product, ensuring goals are meaningful and testable.
• Operationally disciplined with clean, reliable Jira/Jira Align signals.

$63.94 - $71.94 per hour.

• Access to hundreds of clients, most of whom have been working with us for 5-20+ years.
• Opportunity for a career-home in our firm.
• Experienced recruiting team.
• Behavioral Health Platform.
• Medical, Dental, Vision.
• Health Savings Account.
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident).
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance.
• 401K.
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities).
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois).

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis
10 employees will be considered for this position.

Genesis
10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.