Kforce has a client in search of a talented IT Scrum Master in San Antonio, TX and Plano, TX. Job Duties: * Serves as a facilitator for product owners and development teams currently using Scrum development methodology to self-organize and make development changes quickly while delivering value to customers * Engages in Servant Leadership and manages the Scrum process through effective guidance, coaching, and education, and through removal of impediments to team progress * Supports and educates the product owner; Particularly with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and decision making * Facilitates seamless collaboration and maximizes team performance within assigned technical and/or non-technical teams to ensure rapid delivery of products and timeline achievement of goals * Removes impediments to team progress whether internal to the team or organizational in nature; When necessary, escalates impediments to facilitate rapid resolution * Supports product owners, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and decision making * Ensures effective communication with Scrum teams and other cross-functional teams * Influences and facilitates the empowerment of a self-organizing team * Schedules and facilitates cross-functional meetings * Ensures appropriate status tools, radiators, and reports are produced in order to effectively provide transparency on team's progress/productivity * Acts as Agile methodology SME to technology teams, product owners, and management * For technology related efforts, understands release-when ready, test-driven development, continuous integration, product demonstration and other technical engineering practices and encourages teams to leverage them * Supports and educates product owners, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog, release plan maintenance, and decision making