Scrum Master

LMI

. Serve as Scrum Master for multiple concurrent Scrum teams.

Posted 10/23/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $102,000 - $174,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience as a Scrum Master, facilitating Agile ceremonies and managing multiple Scrum teams while leveraging advanced Jira skills for effective project delivery. Proven ability to coach teams on Scrum practices, manage dependencies, and utilize delivery metrics for continuous improvement.

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Scrum Master ExperienceAdvanced Jira SkillsAgile Delivery MetricsCross-Team CoordinationStakeholder Management

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Hard Skills

Agile DeliveryScrum FacilitationBacklog ManagementDelivery Metrics AnalysisImpediment Removal

Soft Skills

FacilitationConflict ResolutionCommunicationCoachingTeam Engagement

Tools & Technologies

JiraConfluenceAzure DevOpsGitLabMicrosoft Teams

Certifications & Qualifications

CSMPSM ISSMPMI-ACPAdvanced Agile Certification

Industry Keywords

Digital DeliveryHealthcare DeliveryFederal RegulationsAgile MaturityWorkflow Transformation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Azure

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as Scrum Master for multiple concurrent Scrum teams.
Facilitate sprint planning, daily Scrums, backlog refinement, sprint reviews/demos, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies.
Manage the day-to-day health of multiple Jira boards, including workflows, issue hygiene, sprint setup, dependencies, dashboards, filters, and reporting views.
Partner with Product Owners to maintain prioritized, actionable backlogs with acceptance criteria, dependencies, sequencing, and sprint readiness.
Track commitments, progress, blockers, carryover, scope movement, defects, and delivery risks; facilitate resolution or escalation.
Coordinate dependencies across Scrum teams and shared engineering, data, architecture, UX/HCD, QA, security, platform, and delivery functions.
Facilitate Scrum-of-Scrums, cross-team planning, dependency reviews, and release-readiness discussions.
Use velocity, throughput, cycle time, lead time, work in progress, burndown/burnup, aging work, and carryover metrics to support continuous improvement.
Coach teams on Scrum values, self-management, estimation, work decomposition, sustainable delivery, definitions of ready/done, and retrospectives.
Coach Product Owners and stakeholders on backlog quality, prioritization, acceptance criteria, sprint goals, scope tradeoffs, and team engagement.
Remove impediments and work with program leadership to resolve organizational, resource, approval, environment, access, and cross-team barriers.
Connect sprint execution to broader milestones and release objectives while maintaining transparency about capacity, constraints, dependencies, and forecast confidence.
Prepare Jira-based delivery views for program leadership covering progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, and forecast confidence.
Mentor less-experienced Scrum Masters or Agile practitioners and contribute ceremony guides, Jira standards, metrics definitions, and team-health practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in business, information technology, engineering, computer science, management, or a related field; equivalent professional experience may be considered.
7+ years of progressive experience in Agile delivery, Scrum, software/digital delivery, project delivery, or related work, including significant hands-on experience serving as a Scrum Master.
Experience simultaneously supporting multiple Scrum teams or workstreams with competing priorities, cross-team dependencies, shared resources, and different levels of Agile maturity.
Advanced hands-on Jira experience, including board configuration, workflows, filters/JQL, dashboards, sprint management, issue hygiene, dependencies, reporting, and troubleshooting.
Experience facilitating sprint planning, daily Scrums, refinement, reviews/demos, retrospectives, Scrum-of-Scrums, and other Agile coordination forums.
Strong understanding of Scrum roles, events, artifacts, commitments, empirical process control, team self-management, iterative delivery, and Scrum Master boundaries.
Experience using delivery metrics to identify trends, diagnose flow or predictability problems, and coach teams toward measurable improvement.
Experience coordinating cross-team dependencies and impediments involving engineering, data, architecture, UX/HCD, QA, security, platform, product, or other shared disciplines.
Strong facilitation, conflict-resolution, stakeholder-management, and communication skills.
Recommended certification: CSM, PSM I or higher, SSM, PMI-ACP, or comparable Agile credential.
Ability to complete and maintain required federal background investigation, suitability, and Public Trust requirements and comply with applicable VA security, privacy, training, records-management, and data-handling requirements.
Desired: 9+ years of Agile or digital-delivery experience, including 5+ years in a Scrum Master, Senior Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead, or comparable role.
Desired: Prior Department of Veterans Affairs, VHA, federal, healthcare, or large regulated-enterprise delivery experience.
Desired: Experience supporting three or more concurrent Scrum teams and facilitating cross-team planning or Scrum-of-Scrums at scale.
Desired: Advanced Jira/JQL, Confluence, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Miro, Microsoft Teams, Power BI, or comparable tool experience.
Desired: Advanced Agile certification.
Desired: Experience coaching teams through maturity improvements, recovering underperforming teams, improving predictability, reducing work in progress, or resolving recurring carryover and dependency issues.
Desired: Experience supporting digital modernization, workflow transformation, data/analytics, automation, AI-enabled products, or multidisciplinary technology initiatives.