SAFe Scrum Master- State of MI- Lansing, MI (2 days onsite)

Hello There

My name is Amit Kumar and I serve as the Sr. Technical Recruiter at Kanak-IT INC. I am reaching out to share an excellent career opportunity for the role of SAFe Scrum Master with our esteemed client. If you are interested then please share your updated resume at .

Job Title: SAFe Scrum Master

Location: Hybrid Lansing MI (2 days a week onsite required) need local

Duration: 1 Year

Job Description:

The scrum master position will work as a contract resource for our client. The resource will act as the scrum master for the Project with duties including coaching the team on scrum practices facilitating scrum ceremonies removing impediments to progress protecting the team from external distractions and fostering collaboration and continuous improvement within the team and organization

Required Qualifications:

7 years of experience serving as a Scrum Master in Agile software development environments.

Proven experience supporting complex enterprise-level financial or debt management software solutions.

Advanced knowledge of Scrum Kanban and Scaled Agile methodologies (SAFe Nexus LeSS or similar).

Strong understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC) secure application development lifecycle (SADLC) and modern DevOps practices.

Demonstrated ability to guide teams in implementing Agile best practices continuous improvement and delivery forecasting.

Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Refinement Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.

Strong ability to remove impediments negotiate dependencies and collaborate across cross-functional teams (engineering QA product architecture compliance and operations).

Hands-on experience using Agile lifecycle management tools (Azure DevOps Jira Rally VersionOne etc.).

Proven ability to coach Product Owners in backlog refinement story decomposition estimation and value prioritization.

Experience supporting teams working with integration-heavy API-driven or data-centric systems.

Strong understanding of regulatory privacy and security considerations in financial services software (e.g. PCI SOC FFIEC CFPB-related requirements).

Excellent communication facilitation conflict resolution and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to lead multiple Agile teams or a large scaled program context.

Experience working in fast-paced cloud-first environments (Azure AWS or GCP).

Preferred Qualifications:

SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM) CSM PSM I/II ICP-ACC or equivalent certification.

Experience working with debt collection/servicing systems payment processing workflows or financial case management platforms.

Understanding of user-centered design accessibility standards and customer journey mapping.

Experience supporting Quality Assurance processes including regression user acceptance testing (UAT) and post-deployment validation.

Ability to facilitate technical discussions backlog elaboration sessions and dependency alignment across multiple teams.

Experience contributing to or establishing Centers of Excellence (Agile CoE) or process governance programs.

Key Competencies:

Strong servant leadership mindset with a focus on empowering teams.

Exceptional analytical organizational and problem-solving skills.

Ability to drive transparency predictability and continuous delivery.

Comfortable facilitating executive-level reporting burn-up metrics dashboards and KPI updates.

Ability to maintain a positive motivating influence within high-pressure or sensitive delivery timelines