Scrum Master

Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and PI Planning. Lead and support PI planning and execution, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps and business priorities. Maintain backlog hygiene with clearly defined user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritization. Track sprint progress and delivery metrics; proactively manage risks, dependencies, and impediments. Manage and optimize JIRA boards, workflows, and reporting for transparency and efficiency. Ensure traceability across epics, features, and user stories. Coordinate across engineering, product, and system teams to manage cross-team dependencies. Communicate status, risks, and mitigation plans to stakeholders and leadership. Navigate complex stakeholder environments and drive alignment under tight timelines. Act as a servant leader, coaching teams on Agile best practices and fostering continuous improvement. Remove blockers and enable teams to deliver effectively. Support release planning and ensure production readiness., Ztek Consulting Inc is a minority- and woman-owned business enterprise that leverages a unique blend of human talent, machine learning algorithms, and artificial intelligence to provide customized talent management solutions for clients. Ztek s diversity-focused hiring models have proven successful, particularly in hiring veterans. The company’s veteran-focused hiring and deployment program, Z-V.E.T, matches skilled veterans with clients’ needs in various areas. Disclaimer: Ztek is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Ztek is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us at hrd@ztekinc.com Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Ztek encourages all interested and qualified candidates to apply for employment opportunities. Ztek does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. 1324b

We are looking for an experienced and proactive Scrum Master to lead Agile delivery for a greenfield platform initiative (Unity). This role is critical to ensuring smooth execution of Program Increments (PIs), facilitating Agile ceremonies, and driving alignment across cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will bring strong execution discipline, stakeholder management skills, and a solid understanding of Agile best practices to guide teams through complex dependencies and tight timelines., 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master in Agile environments. Proven experience in PI planning and execution (SAFe or similar frameworks preferred). Strong hands-on experience with JIRA (boards, workflows, reporting, backlog management). Ability to manage complex stakeholder environments and competing priorities. Experience working in high-pressure environments with aggressive timelines. Strong communication, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills. Basic understanding of APIs, microservices, and modern engineering practices. Experience working with distributed teams (US & offshore).