Scrum Master

• Lead and coach Scrum teams on self-organization, cross-functionality, and goal achievement
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective ceremonies
• Identify and remove impediments hindering team progress
• Coach development teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile principles and practices
• Foster communication and collaboration within and between Scrum teams and stakeholders
• Support Product Owners with product backlog management and user-story refinement
• Promote Agile adoption and continuous improvement across the organization
• Track and communicate team progress, velocity, and other metrics
• Mediate and resolve conflicts within Scrum teams and with external stakeholders
• Contribute to scaling Agile practices across multiple teams
• Provide Scrum and Agile training and guidance
• Communicate with delivery-side and customer-side stakeholders at all organizational levels
• Collaborate with PMO peers and leadership on status updates, issues, risks, decisions, and change requests
• Lead and motivate project teams and oversee engineers and architects across infrastructure modernization, data engineering, and application development
• Help the PMO Center of Excellence implement lasting organizational change
• Work regularly with customers on opportunity qualification, project kickoff, progress updates, and project close

Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master

• Own and optimize end-to-end delivery for one or more scaled Agile programs
• Translate strategic priorities into integrated, executable roadmaps
• Enable teams to achieve Program Increment objectives with predictable, high-quality delivery
• Balance demand, capacity, and investment decisions with Product, Engineering, and business leaders
• Lead and facilitate Program Increment Planning events
• Own PI-level communications covering objectives, business value, metrics, risks, and outcomes
• Coach Agile teams, Product Owners, Product Managers, and organizational leaders
• Drive adoption and maturity of Agile-Lean principles and practices
• Lead organizational transformation through coaching, facilitation, training, and process optimization
• Provide transparency into program health, progress, flow efficiency, quality outcomes, risks, and dependencies
• Lead executive-level reviews
• Identify, manage, and resolve program-level risks, impediments, and dependencies
• Ensure program governance and required delivery documentation
• Leverage AI-enabled Agile lifecycle and delivery tools to improve planning, forecasting, and delivery insights
• Use data and AI-assisted analytics to identify trends, predict risks, and support continuous improvement
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and business leaders to deliver business outcomes

Scrum Master jobs in Illinois

Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master

Agile Delivery Lead