Scrum Master

IBM

IBM

Product

Bedford, PA, USA

Posted on Apr 11, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Project Manager: ScrumMaster Agile Development, you will lead and coach the organization in scrum adoption and plan scrum implementations within the organization. You will ensure teams live agile values and principles and follow the agreed upon processes and practices. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Facilitate Scrum Events: Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings as requested or needed to ensure teams are aligned and working efficiently. • Coach Development Team: Coach the development team in self-organization and cross-functionality to improve collaboration and productivity. • Address Team Dynamics: Address team dynamics and remove blockers to ensure the team is working effectively and efficiently. • Implement Agile Methodologies: Apply expert knowledge in agile principles and methodologies to ensure teams are following best practices and ceremonies. • Ensure Agile Adoption: Ensure teams are living agile values and principles and following the agreed upon processes and practices to drive agile adoption within the organization.

Required education
Associate's Degree/College Diploma
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Agile Principles and Methodologies: Experience with agile principles and methodologies, including techniques, practices, and ceremonies, to lead and coach the organization in scrum adoption and plan scrum implementations. • Scrum Event Facilitation: Experience facilitating scrum events, such as daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings, to ensure teams are aligned and working efficiently. • Coaching and Development: Experience coaching development teams in self-organization and cross-functionality to improve collaboration and productivity. • Agile Development Processes: Experience with software development processes, including iterative and incremental development, to ensure teams are following best practices. • Agile Certification: Certification in agile methodologies, such as ScrumMaster, to demonstrate expertise in agile principles and practices.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Agile Development Knowledge: Exposure to software development processes, including iterative and incremental development, to support agile adoption and implementation. • Scrum Framework Understanding: Exposure to scrum framework and its application in development teams to facilitate effective team collaboration and productivity. • Agile Coaching Techniques: Exposure to coaching techniques and methods to support development teams in self-organization and cross-functionality.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

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