via Dice
$120K - 150K a year
Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, coach teams on Agile practices, and manage delivery risks and dependencies.
Requires 8+ years of experience, Scrum Master certification, proficiency with Jira/Confluence, and understanding of software development concepts.
Role: Scrum Master-Tennessee Locals Only(No Relocation) Location: Remote Job Description: • Promote team health, agility, and delivery excellence through continuous improvement and coaching. • Foster self-organization, ownership, accountability, and strong team dynamics. • Provide agile coaching to assigned teams and support agile maturity across the organization. • Lead all core Scrum ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Refinement, Review, Retrospective), ensuring process integrity, efficiency, and time-boxing. • Ask critical questions that challenge assumptions and continuously evolve agile practices. • Manage team capacity and support reliable forecasting for predictable sprint and program delivery. • Take accountability for sprint success by proactively identifying, removing, or escalating blockers. • Hold teams accountable to performance expectations, team agreements, and agile best practices. • Help manage delivery risks, dependencies, and impediments at the team and cross-team level. • Build strong, collaborative stakeholder relationships that promote transparency and shared ownership. • Coordinate cross-team and enterprise-wide dependencies to minimize delivery risk. • Facilitate feedback loops and alignment through agile ceremonies and structured checkpoints. • Create, modify, publish, and leverage standardized agile metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown, workflow health) to drive transparency and continuous improvement. • Develop dashboards and reporting for team and leadership visibility. • Maintain a single source of truth for delivery tracking, metrics, and documentation. • Partner closely with engineering and QA teams to ensure timely, stable, and high-quality releases. • Hands-on experience with agile lifecycle management tools, including Jira, Target Process, Confluence, and related reporting dashboards. • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, release coordination, build processes, and DevOps practices. • Working knowledge of common software development languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript) and frameworks. • Familiarity with development environments and version control systems (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitLab). Qualifications: • 8 years of experience. • Certified Scrum Master with experience supporting Agile teams and driving continuous improvement. • Strong facilitator of Scrum ceremonies; removes blockers and improves delivery flow. • Proficient with Jira/Confluence; experienced in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and team coordination. • Effective communicator who bridges technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Basic understanding of software development concepts, APIs, cloud environments, and SDLC; able to collaborate closely with engineers and translate technical needs into actionable work.
This job posting was last updated on 1/19/2026