Job Description:
The scrum master position will work as a contract resource for our client located in Lansing, MI. They will perform duties including coaching the team on scrum practices, facilitating scrum ceremonies, removing impediments to progress, protecting the team from external distractions, and fostering collaboration and continuous improvement within the team and organization
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience serving as a Scrum Master in Agile software development environments.
- Proven experience supporting complex, enterprise-level financial or debt management software solutions.
- Advanced knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile methodologies (SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, or similar).
- Strong understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC), secure application development lifecycle (SADLC), and modern DevOps practices.
- Demonstrated ability to guide teams in implementing Agile best practices, continuous improvement, and delivery forecasting.
- Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
- Strong ability to remove impediments, negotiate dependencies, and collaborate across cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, product, architecture, compliance, and operations).
- Hands-on experience using Azure DevOps Agile lifecycle management tools.
- Proven ability to coach Product Owners in backlog refinement, story decomposition, estimation, and value prioritization.
- Experience supporting teams working with integration-heavy, API-driven, or data-centric systems.
- Strong understanding of regulatory, privacy, and security considerations in financial services software (e.g., PCI, SOC, FFIEC, CFPB-related requirements).
- Excellent communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to lead multiple Agile teams or a large, scaled program context.
- Experience working in fast-paced, cloud-first environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
Preferred Qualifications
- SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM), CSM, PSM I/II, ICP-ACC, or equivalent certification.
- Experience working with debt collection/servicing systems, payment processing workflows, or financial case management platforms.
- Understanding of user-centered design, accessibility standards, and customer journey mapping.
- Experience supporting Quality Assurance processes including regression, user acceptance testing (UAT), and post-deployment validation.
- Ability to facilitate technical discussions, backlog elaboration sessions, and dependency alignment across multiple teams.
- Experience contributing to or establishing Centers of Excellence (Agile CoE) or process governance programs.
Key Competencies
- Strong servant leadership mindset with a focus on empowering teams.
- Exceptional analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to drive transparency, predictability, and continuous delivery.
- Comfortable facilitating executive-level reporting, burn-up metrics, dashboards, and KPI updates.
- Ability to maintain a positive, motivating influence within high-pressure or sensitive delivery timelines.
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
