Scrum Master - Hybrid

Genesis
10 is currently seeking a Scrum Master for a hybrid position (3 days per week) with a Global Financial Institution located in Chandler, AZ. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

As a Scrum Master supporting Technology Infrastructure Priorities, you will enable an Agile team within a Scaled Agile (ART) environment to deliver technology outcomes across Database, Middleware, and Messaging platforms. This role is PI Planning-critical, and you will be accountable for facilitating the Scrum operating rhythm, strengthening delivery predictability, managing dependencies and impediments, and ensuring alignment with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements.

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies, manage dependencies, and provide visibility into delivery plans and progress
• Promote agile principles and mindset through coaching and enable continuous improvement across scrum teams
• Optimize the flow of stories and the value delivered for medium to high complexity projects and programs
• Ensure the team resolves impediments quickly, following agreed-to processes
• Drive PI readiness including backlog quality, dependency clarity, and objective readiness
• Ensure post-PI execution stays aligned to PI objectives, risks, and commitments
• Partner with Product Owner/Product Manager and Engineering leadership to keep focus on outcomes, not outputs

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of delivery experience on Agile teams in complex enterprise environments
• Demonstrated mastery in Scrum facilitation and coaching
• Scaled Agile experience in an ART model: PI Planning preparation, dependency/risk management, and execution follow-through
• Strong facilitation skills across multiple organizational levels; skilled in alignment, decisioning, and conflict navigation
• Ability to influence, remove obstacles, and motivate people without direct authority (servant leadership)
• Executive-ready communication with crisp written updates, risk framing, and escalation judgment
• Experience with backlog requirements rigor: story splitting, acceptance criteria quality (Specification by Example / Gherkin), and healthy Definition of Ready/Done
• Metrics-driven improvement: uses flow/predictability/quality signals to diagnose system issues and drive measurable change
• Hands-on Jira expertise, including strong JQL proficiency
• Hands-on proficiency with Jira Software Plans (Advanced Roadmaps)
• Comfort operating in governance/change-control environments and ensuring compliance with policy requirements

• Practical experience leveraging Copilot Chat (AI) to accelerate deliverable formulation
• Advanced coaching techniques (e.g., Liberating Structures)
• Strong working knowledge of Jira Align
• Experience supporting production readiness and operational handoffs with Operations/SRE (release readiness, runbooks, support model)

$63.94 - $71.94 per hour

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

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis
  10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis
  10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis
  10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• 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)

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