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Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

Artech LLC

Chicago, IL

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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$45–$50 Per Hour
SKILLS
Agile Programming Methodologies, Analysis Skills, Coaching, Data Entry, Delivery Management, Injections, Leadership, Literacy, Meeting Minutes, Mentoring, Metrics, Microsoft ADO (ActiveX Data Object), Operations Security (OPSEC), Project/Program Management, ScrumMaster, Short Messaging Service (SMS), Sprint Planning, Status Reports, Trend Analysis
LOCATION
Chicago, IL
POSTED
5 days ago
Request ID:97406-1
Title: Scrum Master/ Agile Coach
Location: Chicago or Remote
Duration: 6+ Months
Salary Range: 45- $50 an hour on W2 or C2C

Job Description:
" Coach entire organizations and programs - not just individual teams
" Design and execute a multi-team agile transformation program with measurable milestones
" Operate as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership - providing candid, data-backed input on delivery health
" Design ADO structure for multi-team environments: area paths, team configurations, cross-team dependency tracking, portfolio-level visibility
" Implement at scale: overall retrospectives, cross-team sprint synchronization, area product ownership, self-selection processes
" Lead without authority - influence vendor teams, internal teams, and organizational structures
" Design and implement a comprehensive metrics framework: flow, stability (DORA), quality, and backlog health
" Shift engineering culture from output-focused to outcome-focused - and sustain that shift
" Facilitate difficult organizational conversations: between PMO and engineering, between vendors and product, between teams and leadership
" Build SM capability in others - mentor junior and mid-level SMs, identify gaps, provide structured coaching

What We Are Specifically Looking For at This Level
" Demonstrated scaled experience - not just familiarity, actual operation in or implementation
" DORA metrics literacy - can explain what deployment frequency, change failure rate, lead time for changes, and MTTR mean and how to improve them
" Experience challenging and changing organizational structures that block team effectiveness - not just working around them
" Evidence of having built and sustained psychological safety on teams that were previously defensive or siloed
" Ability to run executive-level conversations using delivery data - not status updates, constraint analysis

Standards We Expect From a Sr SM / Agile Coach
" Operates across multiple teams simultaneously with full situational awareness on each
" Produces a quarterly maturity assessment for each team with trend data and forward plan
" Drives DORA metric baseline: deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR are tracked and improving
" Cross-team impediments are owned and driven to resolution - not left in a shared log
" Contributes to the engineering standards playbook - not just applies it
" Conducts structured capability reviews for junior and mid-level SMs under their oversight"

"What We Have Seen Too Often
" SMs who run standups as status reports directed at themselves or at management
" Sprint planning sessions that end without a real sprint goal or genuine team commitment
" Retrospectives where the same three problems surface every sprint and nothing changes
" Impediments that are noted in a meeting and never tracked or followed up
" SMs who defer entirely to the Product Owner and never push back on scope, quality, or readiness
" ADO boards that are inaccurate, not maintained, or only updated in bulk at the end of a sprint
" SMs who have no opinion about whether the team's engineering practices are healthy

What Good Actually Looks Like
" The SM understands that their job is to improve the team's ability to deliver, not to coordinate the team's delivery
" Every ceremony ends with a clear, documented, actionable output not just meeting notes
" The SM actively coaches individually and as a group not just facilitates
" Impediments are tracked in ADO, pursued proactively, and escalated when stalled
" The sprint board is accurate in real time, not reconstructed at end of sprint
" The SM has a deliberate maturity development plan for the team and executes against it
" The SM protects the team from scope injection, from unrealistic expectations, from organizational noise
" The SM uses data to drive conversations: velocity trends, cycle time, WIP, flow metrics"


Skills: Leadership Essentials - Managing Secure Delivery and Operations~Agile Specialisation~Project Management
Experience Required: 8-10

Appreciate your quick response and please feel free to reach me out for any query you may have.

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