Scrum Master II

TPI Global (formerly Tech Providers, Inc.)

Atlanta, GA

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JOB DETAILS

SKILLS

Agile Programming Methodologies, Backlog Prioritization, Best Practices, Certified ScrumMaster, Coaching, Communication Skills, Continuous Improvement, Diversity, Health Maintenance, Improvement Metrics, Information Technology & Information Systems, Interpersonal Skills, Kanban, Leadership, Mentoring, Metrics, Microsoft Product Family, Multiplatform/Cross-Platform, Performance Management, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Product Engineering, Product Planning, Psychology, Scrum Project Management and Software Development, ScrumMaster, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, Sustainability, Team Building, Training/Teaching, Writing Skills

LOCATION

Atlanta, GA

POSTED

10 days ago

Job Title: Scrum Master II
Job Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid- 2 days onsite, 3 days remote)
Project Duration: 5 months with possible extension

Job Summary
As a Scrum Master II, you’d mostly be responsible for facilitating the learning and growth of our Agile teams, helping them develop a lean-Agile mindset, maximize throughput, and achieve more predictable delivery.

What You’ll Do

You’ll support our delivery teams, be a master at the art of facilitating agile ceremonies, develop and manage best practices around backlog management, offer advice and guidance, and more!

Who You Are

You are curious, open-minded, believe in inclusion and diversity. Here are a few additional tidbits that describe you:
You’ve got 3-5 years of experience as a Scrum Master.
You also have working experience with Scrum, Kanban, and Agile scaling frameworks (preferably SAFe).
You’ve got your bachelor’s degree (preferably in information technology)
It’s also a big plus if you’ve already got your Scrum Master certification, or an equivalent professional certification.
You are willing and able to receive constructive feedback and advice with a growth mindset.
You have excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, particularly in a virtual video environment over Microsoft Teams

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Lean/Agile Events Facilitation

Facilitate contextual adoption of the Scrum Framework, including daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews & retrospectives, and other related team and intra-team meetings
Facilitate and participate in scaled events, including cross-team planning, dependency management, delivery synchronization, and systems-level inspect & adapt
Sustain and promote usage of information radiators for the teams and broader organization

Planning

Prepare and facilitate quarterly, release, and sprint planning with the product owner and the team
Guide Feature and Story-level refinement to the Definition of "Ready"in preparation for the next quarter and upcoming sprints
Work with the team and Product Owner/Managers to maintain a healthy backlog and rolling short and mid-term planning for upcoming releases

Team Support

Able to put ego to the side and the "desire to control"the team by teaching and mentoring increasing levels of self-organizing behavior.
Engage the organization to remove impediments to the team’s ability to perform by working closely with the team and stakeholders, including product owners/managers, leadership, and other teams.
Support communication of delivery progress, gaps, and obstacles with a wide variety of stakeholders;coach product owners/managers to play an active role in stakeholder engagement.
Facilitate cross-team orchestration, tracking and following up with internal and external dependencies.
Act as a buffer between external distractions and the focused environment the team needs to be successful. Where beneficial, protect the team and minimize disruptions
Forms and guides teams to high performance by helping the team navigate interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for growth. Create and sustain an environment of psychological safety and trust among team members, and between the team and the larger organization.
Works with team to co-create and refine team working agreement, definition of "ready", and definition of "done."
Collect and share transparent team metrics with teams, recommend new metrics for the team's context, and foster continuous improvement conversations using metrics.

Must Haves:
Strong Kanban management expertise, including flow based metrics (cycle time, WIP limits, throughput), backlog flow optimization, and the ability to apply Kanban pragmatically alongside Scrum to improve predictability and delivery momentum.
Effective facilitation and team coaching skills, with a proven ability to build trust quickly, foster psychological safety, and guide teams toward self organization, continuous improvement, and experimentation in fast changing delivery systems.
Experience operating in scaled Agile environments, including cross team planning, dependency management, inspect and adapt events, and alignment across multiple platform and product teams.
Strong systems thinking and delivery discipline, demonstrated by effective backlog management, metrics driven conversations, impediment removal, and clear communication of progress, risks, and tradeoffs to product, engineering, and leadership stakeholders.
Strongly Desired but not expected due to early industry adoption:
Hands-on experience coaching teams through agile, spec-driven development transformation, particularly shifting from traditional Scrum execution to more intentional, design first or spec driven development models in complex enterprise environments.

Scrum Master II

TPI Global (formerly Tech Providers, Inc.)

Atlanta, GA

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TPI Global (formerly Tech Providers, Inc.)

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