Kforce's Phoenix based client is looking to add TWO Scrum Masters to their team. These roles are fully remote (MST/Arizona hours). These are contract roles, nine months in duration to start. The role can be performed from anywhere in the United States (MST/Arizona hours). Summary: The Scrum Master role requires a proactive individual with a bias for action, responsible for providing effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and coaching to support the agile development process. As an agile expert, the Scrum Master enforces agile principles, removes impediments, and promotes empowerment through self-organizing teams. This role actively guides teams and the organization in leveraging agile practices and values to maximize business value delivery for stakeholders. The Scrum Master will receive mentorship from senior leaders and provide mentoring to junior Scrum Masters. Principal Responsibilities: * Serve as Scrum Master for 3-4 Agile teams * Establish and uphold Agile values and principles, fostering a culture of openness, team self-organization, continuous improvement, and flexibility to adapt to emerging business needs * Coach teams on the basics of Scrum and/or Kanban * Coach IT and Business Leadership on Agile principles to facilitate change * Propose, champion, and empower experimentation for agile teams in their development goals * Anticipate issues that may develop and organize team resources to evaluate and resolve * Facilitate Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives * Establish Agile backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definitions * Focus teams on delivering value quickly through iterations * Coordinate across other Agile and traditional teams for complex projects * Escalate and/or resolve impediments to help teams ship code regularly * Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress