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 Job Title: Scrum Master
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Duration: 12-18 months
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Location: Chandler, AZ (ONSITE INTERVIEW REQUIRED)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Required Pay Scale: 70-73
 
 
 
 
 
 ***Due to client requirements this role is only open to W2 candidates***
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 As a Contractor Scrum Master supporting Technology Infrastructure Priorities, you will enable one Agile team within a Scaled Agile (ART) environment to deliver technology outcomes across Database, Middleware, and Messaging platforms. You will be accountable for facilitating the Scrum operating rhythm, strengthening delivery predictability, managing dependencies and impediments, and ensuring alignment with Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements.
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 This role is PI Planning-critical: you will drive PI readiness (backlog quality, dependency clarity, objective readiness) and ensure post-PI execution stays aligned to PI objectives, risks, and commitments.
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 Daily responsibilities and/or priorities include:
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 Facilitate and continuously improve Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review/Demo, and Retrospectives
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 Lead PI Planning preparation for the team: ensure objectives, dependencies, risks, and capacity assumptions are ready; support program board inputs and follow-through on commitments.
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 Create stakeholder transparency: communicate plans, progress, risks, and dependencies using Jira/Jira Align signals and concise, executive-ready written/visual updates.
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 Proactively manage delivery risk: dependency mapping, impediment removal, escalation as needed, and ensuring compliance with Enterprise Change Management and related governance.
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 Partner with Product Owner/Product Manager to maintain a healthy backlog: clear priorities, right-sized epics, ready stories, acceptance criteria quality, and effective story splitting/estimation.
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 Use Jira Software Plans roadmap views to validate and communicate the team&rsquo;s plan, including capacity, dependencies, sequencing, and target dates.
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 Use metrics to drive improvement
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 Coach for team health and performance: psychological safety, conflict navigation, cross-training, and continuous improvement grounded in Agile values and principles.
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 Middleware platform lifecycle upgrades, resiliency enhancements, operational efficiency improvements
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 Stronger production readiness and operational handoffs (release-ready, supportable outcomes)
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 Improved backlog quality and team maturity measured through metrics and retrospectives
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 Maintains high-quality delivery artifacts and data hygiene in Jira/Jira Align to enable trustworthy reporting and traceability.
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 About Matlen Silver
 
 
 
 Experience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works.
 
 
 
 
 Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at email and/or phone at:
 
 
 
 info@matlensilver.com
 
 
 
 // 908-393-8600
 
 
 
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