Scrum Master 2

$43.3 - $48.78

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Scrum Master in Charlotte, NC or Irving, TX (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

• 2+ years of Scrum or Agile experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

• Participate in low to moderately complex initiatives and identify opportunity for process improvements within Scrum or Agile.

• Review and analyze basic or tactical Scrum Master assignments or challenges that require research, evaluation, and selection of alternatives, related to low-to-medium risk deliverables.

• Present recommendations for resolving low to moderately complex situations and exercise some independent judgment while developing understanding of function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.

• Provide information to client personnel.

• Scrum Facilitation

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies:

• Daily Standups

• Sprint Planning

• Sprint Reviews/Demos

• Sprint Retrospectives

• Backlog Refinement sessions

• Ensure meetings are productive, time-boxed, and action-oriented.

• Team Coaching

• Coach team members on Scrum and Agile principles.

• Promote Agile best practices and continuous improvement.

• Help new team members understand team processes and ways of working.

• Impediment Management

• Identify, track, and help remove blockers impacting delivery.

• Escalate issues to leadership when team-level resolution is insufficient.

• Coordinate with dependent teams to resolve delivery constraints.

• Sprint Execution & Tracking

• Monitor Sprint progress against commitments.

• Track velocity, burndown, capacity, and sprint health metrics.

• Highlight risks, delays, and potential scope impacts early.

• Backlog & Planning Support

• Work with Product Owner to maintain a healthy backlog.

• Ensure stories meet Definition of Ready (DoR).

• Verify completion against Definition of Done (DoD).

• Support prioritization discussions and sprint planning activities.

• Stakeholder Communication

• Provide regular status updates to stakeholders.

• Communicate sprint outcomes, risks, dependencies, and escalations.

• Facilitate coordination across teams when dependencies exist.

• Agile Metrics & Reporting

• Maintain Agile dashboards and reports.

• Track:

• Velocity

• Burndown/Burnup

• Sprint Predictability

• Defects

• Team Capacity

• Present delivery status to management and governance forums.

• Risk & Dependency Management

• Track cross-team dependencies.

• Identify delivery risks early.

• Drive mitigation and follow-up actions.

• Continuous Improvement

• Capture retrospective action items.

• Ensure improvement actions are implemented.

• Measure effectiveness of process improvements.

• Tools & Process Administration

• Maintain Jira/Azure Dev Ops boards.

• Ensure stories, tasks, defects, and statuses are updated accurately.

• Generate sprint and release reports.

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy.

Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.