Technical Scrum Master / Agile Delivery

Technical Scrum Master / Agile Delivery

Location: Berkeley, CA( will confirm if remote is ok)

Payrate: $70/hr on W2

Duration: 2026-06-22 to 2026-12-31

Job description:

Technical Scrum Master / Agile Delivery

Lead to support complex, multi-team delivery across networking, distributed systems, and

API-driven platforms. This role goes beyond traditional Scrum facilitation and requires the ability

to operate effectively in a highly technical environment, coordinating across software,

infrastructure, and architecture stakeholders.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

● Lead multiple Scrum teams with Agile methodologies in sprint or Kanban

environments

● Own and facilitate all Scrum meetings such as the daily stand-up, sprint planning,

backlog refinement, demo, and retrospective

● Coach the organization and technical leads to adhere to Scrum practices and focus

strictly on delivering real value for real users

● Provide support within planning and reporting tools such as Jira

● Help teams achieve higher levels of Scrum maturity and self-organization capability

● Help build an environment of accountability where team members feel a true

ownership of the product

● Support the Product Owners with backlog management, scope management,

handling stakeholder requests, and defining priorities

● Build and maintain reports for both the team and for management, including

burndown, project planning, and capacity in order to provide ongoing insights and

recommendations

● Conduct other activities such as story point estimation, adjusting roadmaps,

supporting quarterly planning, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration

● Accelerate teams by resolving conflicts, removing impediments, and reducing

context switching

● Curate a team culture that encourages commitment, focus, openness, respect, and

courage, while upholding the pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation

Education & Experience

● Bachelor’s or Advanced Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

● Scrum Master certification

● 5 year’s experience in a Scrum Master or Product Owner role in a software

development environment. Scrum MAster certification (eg Certified ScrumMaster

(CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner

(PMI-ACP))

● Experience with Jira

● Experience coaching teams new to Agile and Scrum

● Experience with cloud-native projects, particularly those that involve both cloud and

on-premise platforms or systems. You would be supporting a cloud-based platform

using a micro-services based architecture.

● Able to handle large (100 ) teams of developers, or a large number (10 ) of teams

of developers

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

● Excellent communication, active listening, and servant leadership skills

● Excellent knowledge of Scrum elements and artifacts (user stories, sprints, kanban

boards, backlog refinement, scope, velocity, definition of done, and more)

● Ability to analyze and think quickly to resolve conflicts

● Ability to work with and lead a team

● Outstanding organizational skills

● Ability to be highly flexible and adaptable within a rapidly changing environment

● Ability to coach, understand, and empathize with team members while putting people

first

● Ability to lead agile transformation efforts while leaving space for team culture,

norms, and values