Scrum Master

Job Title: Scrum Master
Location: Hybrid in Plano, TX (3 days onsite required)
Duration: 9 months
 
 
Experience: 11 to 15 Yrs
 
Job Summary: Serve as a senior consultant and agile delivery expert focusing on Jira administration, Jira board optimization, and Atlassian Confluence enablement within a hybrid work model. Apply agile methodologies including Scrum to guide teams, streamline workflows, and improve cross functional collaboration. Enable consistent delivery outcomes aligned to customer value and organizational strategy.
 
Responsibilities:

• Drive agile delivery practices across multiple teams by applying Scrum and broader agile methodologies to ensure predictable, high quality increments that align to product and program objectives.
• Guide Scrum events and team ceremonies in a disciplined manner to foster transparency, continuous inspection, and adaptation while maintaining a sustainable delivery pace.
• Manage Jira board configurations to design clear workflows, issue types, and status transitions that accurately reflect team processes and support efficient work visualization.
• Administer Jira projects by maintaining schemes, permissions, notifications, and automation rules that uphold governance standards and improve user experience.
• Structure and maintain Confluence spaces to provide a single source of truth for project documentation, decision logs, runbooks, and knowledge articles that are easy to navigate and reuse.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to refine backlogs in Jira, clarify acceptance criteria, and prioritize work based on business impact and customer experience goals.
• Coach teams and stakeholders on agile values and Scrum principles to build shared understanding, reduce friction, and promote continuous improvement across the delivery lifecycle.
• Analyze flow metrics such as cycle time, throughput, and work in progress from Jira to identify bottlenecks and recommend targeted process enhancements.
• Partner with technology, operations, and business teams to design Jira and Confluence usage patterns that support regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and data integrity.
• Create and maintain agile playbooks, templates, and best practice guides in Confluence so teams can quickly adopt consistent ways of working and onboarding is simplified.
• Coordinate with other scrum masters and agile practitioners to align cross team dependencies, synchronize releases, and reduce risk across programs and portfolios.
• Facilitate issue resolution by using Jira data and Confluence documentation to highlight risks early, drive fact based discussions, and support timely decision making.
• Measure the impact of agile interventions by tracking key performance indicators and communicating outcomes that show how delivery practices contribute to customer value and organizational goals.
• Provide day to day coaching to team members on effective usage of Jira and Confluence so that information is accurate, current, and accessible to all relevant participants.

 
Qualifications :

• Demonstrate extensive experience using Jira for end to end agile delivery including backlog management, sprint planning, reporting, and configuration capabilities.
• Show strong proficiency in agile methodologies and Scrum practices with a consistent track record of guiding teams toward iterative delivery and continuous improvement.
• Bring proven hands on expertise as a scrum master or similar agile facilitator within complex environments that involve multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Exhibit solid experience administering Jira including managing projects, schemes, permission models, and automation to support secure and efficient operations.
• Possess advanced working knowledge of Confluence for creating structured documentation architectures, templates, and collaboration spaces that enhance knowledge sharing.
• Display effective communication and facilitation skills that enable productive interactions with technical and non technical partners across hybrid work settings.
• Apply analytical and problem solving capabilities to interpret Jira reports and other delivery data, translating insights into actionable improvements for teams and sponsors.

 

At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $39.00/hr.