Title: Scrum Master / Project Manager (Mortgage Banking Domain)

Location: Westlake, TX / Dallas, TX (100% Onsite)

Contract: W2 Preferred / C2C

Local Candidates Only

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master / Project Manager with strong expertise in the Mortgage Banking domain to lead Agile delivery while managing end-to-end project execution. This hybrid leadership role combines Scrum Master responsibilities with traditional Project Management, ensuring successful delivery of complex technology initiatives in a fast-paced, highly regulated financial services environment.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience leading Agile teams, managing project delivery, stakeholder communication, risk management, and cross-functional coordination. Candidates with experience in Mortgage Banking, Payments, Banking APIs, or Financial Services environments are highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Agile & Scrum Leadership

• Serve as Scrum Master for one or more Agile delivery teams.
• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and PI Planning.
• Coach Agile teams on Scrum principles, Agile best practices, and continuous improvement.
• Remove impediments and drive delivery commitments.
• Foster accountability, ownership, and team collaboration.

Project & Delivery Management

• Manage end-to-end project delivery including scope, schedule, budget, quality, and milestones.
• Develop and maintain project plans, roadmaps, RAID logs, and delivery dashboards.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across engineering, QA, product management, operations, and business.
• Manage dependencies across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Identify delivery risks, develop mitigation plans, and manage escalations.
• Ensure development, testing, integration, and release activities remain synchronized.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary interface between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Communicate project status, delivery metrics, and risks to senior leadership.
• Translate business objectives into actionable delivery plans.
• Drive decision-making across cross-functional teams.
• Facilitate executive-level meetings and stakeholder communications.

Operational & Execution Support

• Coordinate internal and external dependencies.
• Support ERP, workflow systems, and release management activities.
• Ensure compliance with organizational governance and delivery standards.
• Contribute to continuous process improvement initiatives.