Scrum Master

Job Role: Scrum Master

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.
• Coach the development team and Product Owner on Agile best practices and Scrum principles.
• Track sprint progress, velocity, burndown, and team capacity to ensure predictable delivery.
• Identify, escalate, and remove impediments impacting sprint commitments.
• Coordinate with Product Owners, Architects, Developers, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to manage cross-team dependencies.
• Monitor project risks, blockers, and delivery milestones while ensuring adherence to Agile practices.
• Maintain Agile artifacts in Jira and Confluence, including user stories, sprint boards, dashboards, and reports.
• Facilitate release planning and ensure alignment between sprint deliverables and business priorities.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives through retrospective action items and process optimization.
• Support engineering teams working on Full Stack Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, REST APIs, Oracle, AWS, and CI/CD environments.
• Prepare and present Agile delivery metrics and project status to leadership.
• Foster a collaborative, self-organizing, and high-performing Agile team culture.