Agile Process SME (Scrum Master) - Federal Technology Modernization
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AretumFederal Government
This is a remote position; however, occasional travel may be required based on project needs, client meetings, team collaboration events, or training sessions. Travel is expected to be less than 10% and will be communicated in advance whenever possible.Full-TimeMiddle
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Job Details
- Experience
- Minimum 4 years of applicable experience
- Required Skills
- SCRUMJiraConfluence
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field (or 3 years of additional experience)
- Active Scrum certification (e.g., Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or SAFe Scrum Master (SSM))
- Minimum 4 years of applicable experience as a Scrum Master on delivery teams
- Hands-on experience operating within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment
- Demonstrated experience facilitating the full set of standard Scrum ceremonies
- Hands-on proficiency with Jira and Confluence for Agile delivery
- Demonstrated ability to identify and remove impediments
- Experience partnering with a Product Owner on backlog refinement, prioritization, and roadmap maintenance
- Experience maintaining team-level Agile metrics (velocity, commitment reliability, flow, defect rates)
- Experience coordinating cross-team dependencies within a multi-team Agile environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability Determination
Responsibilities
- Perform the traditional activities associated with Agile SAFe methodologies at the team level, embedded fully within a single Agile development team
- Coordinate, oversee, and manage the standard Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement) and document the outputs of each ceremony clearly and consistently
- Identify, surface, and drive resolution of team-level impediments, escalating to the senior Scrum Master, the federal Release Train Engineer, or program leadership when impediments cannot be resolved within the team
- Support the team's participation in Program Increment (PI) Planning, including preparing the team's backlog for PI planning, facilitating team-level PI planning sessions, and documenting PI objectives, dependencies, and commitments
- Partner with the federal Product Owner and the engineering team to maintain the 24-month roadmap for the team's Epic area, surfacing technical items and level-of-effort estimates alongside Product-Owner-driven priorities
- Facilitate Sprint Planning to ensure stories are well understood, properly sized, and aligned to sprint goals; facilitate Retrospectives that produce concrete, tracked improvement actions
- Coach team members, the federal Product Owner, and adjacent stakeholders on team roles, behaviors, structure and culture, Agile ceremonies and practices, and knowledge transfer
- Maintain team-level Agile metrics (velocity, commitment reliability, flow, defect rates) and keep project and team status accurate and current so that any stakeholder can find out where the team stands without disrupting delivery
- Coordinate with the senior program-level Scrum Master and other team-level Scrum Masters across the Agile Release Train to identify and resolve cross-team dependencies, align practices, and maintain consistency of ceremony quality, tooling, and reporting
- Maintain Jira and Confluence hygiene for the team, board configuration, sprint setup, workflow states, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, so that the team's work is transparent and reportable
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