Top Scrum Master Jobs in Chicago, IL

Facilitates Scrum events and supports cross-functional Agile teams by removing blockers, tracking progress, managing risks, mentoring team members, and promoting continuous improvement. Coordinates sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, demos, testing, schedules, deliverables, financial tracking, and stakeholder status reporting. This is a fully remote desk role requiring strong communication, analytical, leadership, and project management skills.

Lead and facilitate an Agile Release Train across multiple teams. Coordinate PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, dependencies, risks, impediments, metrics, reporting, and stakeholder alignment. Coach teams in SAFe practices, continuous improvement, governance, compliance, and end-to-end traceability from requirements through release. Synchronize reporting and application development teams, including database and schema changes.

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, remove team impediments, coach teams on Agile principles, promote continuous improvement, manage conflicts, track KPIs, and communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders. The role supports collaborative delivery of high-quality products on schedule and requires strong analytical, communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.

Enables software delivery teams through Scrum ceremonies, planning, backlog coaching, dependency and impediment management, delivery metrics, and continuous improvement. Coaches teams and stakeholders on Agile and Lean practices, fosters accountability and psychological safety, and partners with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and IT Portfolio Management. The role supports cross-team collaboration, delivery standards, tooling, and organizational delivery maturity across value streams.

Coach and support Agile teams to enable high-quality delivery and continuous improvement. Remove impediments, manage cross-team dependencies, provide visibility into progress and metrics, facilitate PI/release planning and Inspect & Adapt, maintain team backlogs in Azure DevOps, optimize flow using Kanban and DevOps practices, and contribute to the Agile Center of Excellence and program-level execution.

Facilitates Scrum ceremonies and coordinates delivery for a Salesforce Agentforce project in a government environment. Maintains sprint backlogs, tracks velocity and performance, removes impediments, manages cross-team dependencies, facilitates stakeholder communication, coaches teams on Agile practices, and supports continuous improvement and technical planning.

Provides senior-level Scrum Master and project management support for IT programs and application development projects. Responsibilities include systems analysis support, project planning, schedule and risk management, functional specifications, budget documentation, briefings, audits, change orders, Service Requests, and coordination with government, application, and business process teams.

Serve as a servant-leader and Agile coach to improve delivery flow and team effectiveness across value streams. Facilitate ceremonies, remove impediments, track Agile metrics (WIP, cycle time), enable prioritization with TPMs/QA, foster collaboration, and drive continuous improvement without owning scope or budget.

Serve as servant-leader and coach for one or more cross-functional delivery squads. Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, remove impediments, track sprint health in Jira, support backlog refinement, incorporate AI tools into Agile practices, and contribute to Agile Center of Excellence initiatives and program-level reporting.

Manage finance-related business transition and transformation projects from demand intake through delivery. Responsibilities include defining project scope and deliverables, coordinating resources, monitoring schedules and progress, identifying efficiency opportunities, reporting cost or quality deviations, maintaining stakeholder relationships, and overseeing project governance, gate reviews, post-audits, and quality control.

Serve as servant-leader and coach for one or more cross-functional delivery squads. Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, remove impediments, track sprint health in Jira, coach Agile practices, support backlog refinement, incorporate AI tools to streamline processes, and contribute to Agile Center of Excellence initiatives and program-level reporting.

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, remove impediments, coach a ~10-person agile engineering team, support backlog refinement and sprint planning, monitor progress, promote Agile metrics and continuous improvement, and foster cross-functional collaboration.

Serve as Scrum Master and business systems analyst for enterprise projects: facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, groom user stories, manage stakeholders, resolve conflicts, and use JIRA/Confluence to track and communicate delivery.

Serve as Scrum Master and business systems analyst: run all Scrum ceremonies, manage stakeholders, negotiate and resolve conflicts, groom user stories, and use JIRA/Confluence to track delivery.

Lead multiple Scrum teams by coaching them in Lean-Agile principles, facilitating sprint ceremonies, and managing program increments. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals and improve operational efficiency.

Lead and facilitate delivery teams as Scrum Master/Project Lead using SDLC and Agile practices. Manage multiple projects, budgets, scope, risks, and project documentation while improving processes and mentoring team members to ensure timely, on-budget delivery.

Leads Scrum delivery across multiple product and platform teams, facilitates ceremonies, removes impediments, mentors Scrum Masters, and drives Agile adoption and continuous improvement. Partners with Product Owners, engineering leaders, and senior management to improve delivery predictability, prioritize backlogs, track metrics, manage risks, and establish consistent processes. Uses Azure DevOps and generative AI tools such as Claude and Copilot to improve productivity and delivery quality.

Lead and coach one or more scrum teams in agile practices, run ceremonies, remove impediments, coordinate cross-functional planning, maintain tracking tools, report status to leadership, and measure team velocity and delivery.

Facilitate and coordinate Agile processes for cross-functional engineering teams: organize work in project tooling, run standups/retros/demos, track metrics and status, create and assign tasks, and continuously improve team processes.

Serve as Scrum Master for Agile teams modernizing VA healthcare systems. Facilitate Agile ceremonies, coach teams on Scrum/Kanban/SAFe, remove impediments, manage backlogs, track sprint metrics, coordinate cross-functional dependencies, support release planning, and use tools like Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps to drive delivery.

Seeking an Agile Scrum Master with Agile PLM experience. Manage projects, guide Agile processes, and improve team adoption of Agile methods.

Lead and coach cross-functional anesthesia software teams to deliver compliant, high-quality clinical and operational software. Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, manage backlogs with Product Owners, remove impediments, coordinate with QA, Regulatory, and Clinical teams, track Agile metrics and dashboards, and drive continuous improvement while ensuring traceability and regulatory compliance (FDA, HIPAA).

Serve as Scrum Master for a federal Salesforce delivery team focusing on Experience Cloud and Agentforce AI. Facilitate Agile ceremonies, remove impediments, align sprints with federal ATO/NIST compliance, track and report metrics (velocity, burndown) using Jira/Azure DevOps, coach teams and stakeholders, and ensure continuous delivery and release readiness.

Facilitate Agile Scrum delivery for integrated teams supporting Oracle eBusiness applications on OCI. Run Scrum ceremonies, manage backlogs with Product Owners, remove impediments, coordinate cross-team dependencies, maintain program documentation and metrics, ensure DevSecOps alignment and DoD cybersecurity and quality requirements, and support continuous improvement.

Lead and coach three Agile teams to improve collaboration, predictability, and delivery. Facilitate outcomes-focused ceremonies, remove impediments, address team behavior, partner with stakeholders, and leverage AI and modern tools to boost coaching, decision-making, and team effectiveness.