Location: Fully Remote (U.S.)
Schedule: Must work Eastern Time business hours
Employment Type: Projected 3-6 month Contract-to-Hire
No Third-Party Candidates: Third-party recruiting firms, candidate resellers, and pass-through arrangements will not be considered.
KORE1, a nationwide provider of staffing and recruiting solutions, has an immediate opening for a Scrum Master (CSM Required) - FinTech or Lending & Jira/Confluence Expert
As a Scrum Master, you will be responsible for guiding your team on how to use Scrum practices and values to delight customers. If you have been searching for a company with a strong commitment to empowering self-directed teams to deliver great software, we might have a lot to talk about. You would be part of a small, persistent team and have endless opportunities to take on responsibility, continue learning, and mentor others. You will work to build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or judgment, with an emphasis on working together to solve them.
What you'll do:
- Build a team culture consistent with the Scrum Core Values: openness, courage, respect, focus, commitment
- Work with the Product Owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information
- Assist with communication by improving transparency and radiating information.
- Coach Product Owners in creation and maintenance of the product backlog, including empirical planning
- Support and coach your team using a servant leadership by facilitating conversations to get work done without the need for coercion, assigning, or dictating a path forward - help build self-organizing teams.
- Surface, escalate, and remove impediments with urgency.
- Facilitate engaging discussions, drive continuous improvement, and build a team that makes you excited to come to work every morning
- Understand Lean and Agile practices and principles, help teams continuously improve with focus on metrics
Requirements:
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification required.
- 3+ years of experience within financial services, fintech, lending, banking, mortgage, consumer lending, equipment finance, or related regulated financial environments.
- 5+ years of experience as a practicing Scrum Master supporting software development teams.
- Deep expertise with Agile and Scrum methodologies and their application within modern product development and technology organizations.
- Proven ability to assess team maturity, identify process gaps, coach teams, and independently drive Agile adoption and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Strong servant leadership skills with experience coaching Product Owners, development teams, and stakeholders toward Agile best practices.
- Advanced proficiency with Jira and Confluence, including dashboards, reporting, metrics, workflow management, integrations, and Agile team performance analysis.
- Strong analytical and data-driven mindset with the ability to leverage Jira metrics and delivery data to identify trends, diagnose issues, and proactively escalate risks.
- Experience supporting multiple Scrum teams simultaneously across varying levels of Agile maturity.
- Ability to facilitate Agile ceremonies, remove impediments, improve team effectiveness, and drive accountability without direct authority.
- Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate team health, delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and expectations to leadership audiences.
- Ability to lead with confidence, influence stakeholders, and build strong working relationships across all levels of the organization.
- Experience working within modern software development environments utilizing technologies such as cloud platforms, enterprise applications, APIs, Salesforce, and web-based applications.
- Ability to drive development teams toward roadmap objectives, delivery commitments, and measurable business outcomes.
- Must be able to work East Coast business hours.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced Agile certifications such as A-CSM, CSP, PSM II, PSM III, SAFe, or similar.
- Experience within small business lending, commercial lending, consumer lending, equipment finance, mortgage lending, or other lending-focused organizations.
- Familiarity with regulatory and compliance considerations common within financial services and fintech environments.
- Experience supporting teams utilizing Salesforce, AWS, Java, Node.js, React, or similar modern technology stacks.
- Experience leveraging AI-enabled productivity tools within Agile delivery environments, including Jira AI features, meeting intelligence tools, requirements generation tools, or development assistants.
- Experience participating in Agile transformation initiatives and organizational Agile maturity programs.
- Experience coaching teams through organizational change management and Agile adoption efforts.
Compensation depends on experience but is typically $50-60/hr W2 with a target salary to convert at $100-123K plus bonus. We are willing to send qualified candidates slightly over-budget.
ABOUT KORE1
Specializing in professional and technical recruiting, KORE1 is committed to supporting top IT, Engineering, Creative, Scientific, Accounting and Finance professionals in their career paths. We build deep relationships with leading companies, connecting them to exceptional talent every day. With extensive industry expertise and unmatched opportunities, our goal is to provide a unique experience for our contractors and consultants as they prepare for their next role. We are passionate about matching the right people with the right companies.
Kore1 provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Kore1 complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Kore1 expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Kore1's employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.
Pay: $50.00 - $60.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Vision insurance
Work Location: Remote
