Scrum Master

• Serve as the primary point of contact between the contractor team and USDA's Product Owner
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Manage and supervise all contractor personnel on the project
• Remove blockers and ensure the team can deliver working software iteratively
• Track team velocity and help maintain a healthy, prioritized product backlog
• Communicate project status, risks, and issues clearly to USDA stakeholders
• Ensure the team adheres to core working hours of 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time
• Coordinate travel requests with the Contracting Officer's Representative prior to booking
• Support onboarding and offboarding of contractor personnel per USDA separation requirements

• Carry out and facilitate Scrum events
• Remove impediments and promote collaboration
• Support the Product Owner
• Drive continuous improvement
• Ensure effective implementation of the Scrum framework
• Counsel Scrum Master teams on agile principles and values
• Interpret agile metrics and reporting frameworks to track and report key information and monitor team progress
• Design and develop process evaluation tools to assess Scrum principle application
• Develop actionable insights from analytics and report on team productivity, velocity, and quality
• Develop stakeholder communication strategies and incorporate feedback into process improvements
• Facilitate the Scrum process and support the Scrum team
• Implement sharing and documentation systems using wikis, documentation platforms, or knowledge management tools
• Instruct team members and stakeholders on agile values, principles, and practices
• Interface with teams, stakeholders, and external stakeholders to help address potential obstacles

Senior Manager, Scrum Master

• Establish goals and plans that meet Program Increment objectives
• Coach technical teams and Product Owners on Agile concepts, Epic and User Story creation, Scrum, and Kanban
• Manage expectations with multiple Product Owners
• Interact in client negotiations and interface with senior management
• Provide leadership on major tasks or technology assignments
• Facilitate communication across teams to identify dependencies and risks and provide mitigation plans
• Organize and facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including daily standups, Sprint Planning/Grooming, Sprint Reviews/Demos, and Retrospectives
• Maintain JIRA and other team information radiators
• Mentor and coach team members on Agile values, principles, practices, and processes
• Enable teams to become self-organizing and self-managing
• Develop release plans with Product Management and ensure backlogs are groomed, prioritized, and visible
• Motivate teams and promote collective responsibility for analysis, development, testing, and documentation
• Identify, address, and communicate project risks, dependencies, and impediments
• Ensure the definition of done is defined at story, sprint, and release levels
• Facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution
• Shield teams from external interference
• Improve communication and transparency
• Build a trusting and safe problem-solving environment
• Assess Scrum maturity and coach teams toward sustainable improvement
• Recommend adjustments to delivery practices
• Participate in Scrum of Scrums meetings for cross-team coordination and release planning
• Establish strong working relationships with stakeholders, including customers
• Support modernization of a mission-critical case management application used by U.S. courts and external stakeholders

Senior Scrum Master

• Lead and facilitate Scrum and Scaled Agile events, including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, PI planning, and retrospectives
• Identify, track, and resolve technical and organizational blockers across prime and subcontractor teams
• Coach software engineering teams, Product Owners, and secondary leads on Scrum, SAFe practices, and Agile values
• Serve as an Agile subject matter expert across the program
• Drive communication, team cohesion, and alignment across hybrid engineering teams, prime contractor leads, government stakeholders, and external partners
• Protect the development team from scope creep, external churn, and mid-sprint distractions
• Monitor sprint velocity, burndown/burnup metrics, and delivery risks; design mitigation strategies
• Promote operational transparency through metric reporting, velocity tracking, and open communication
• Partner with the Product Owner on backlog refinement, feature definitions, and roadmap priorities

• Lead and coach Scrum teams on self-organization, cross-functionality, and goal achievement
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective ceremonies
• Identify and remove impediments hindering team progress
• Coach development teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile principles and practices
• Foster communication and collaboration within and between Scrum teams and stakeholders
• Support Product Owners with product backlog management and user-story refinement
• Promote Agile adoption and continuous improvement across the organization
• Track and communicate team progress, velocity, and other metrics
• Mediate and resolve conflicts within Scrum teams and with external stakeholders
• Contribute to scaling Agile practices across multiple teams
• Provide Scrum and Agile training and guidance
• Communicate with delivery-side and customer-side stakeholders at all organizational levels
• Collaborate with PMO peers and leadership on status updates, issues, risks, decisions, and change requests
• Lead and motivate project teams and oversee engineers and architects across infrastructure modernization, data engineering, and application development
• Help the PMO Center of Excellence implement lasting organizational change
• Work regularly with customers on opportunity qualification, project kickoff, progress updates, and project close

Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master

• Lead the team in executing Continuous Flow/Kanban or planned sprint activities
• Facilitate team ceremonies, including Refinements/Sprint Planning, Daily Boardwalks/Standups, Retrospectives, and Reviews/Demos, using metrics and data for continuous improvement
• Remove impediments related to feature development, build and dependency challenges, operational support conflicts, and process
• Provide status, risk, and dependency reporting to management
• Help teams design, develop, document, configure, test, and debug applications and frameworks across the full software development life cycle
• Help the Agile Coach teach and execute hybrid SAFe 6 and Extreme Programming across the program
• Help teams use AI-assisted development tools for coding, refactoring, debugging, and test creation
• Help teams adopt DevSecOps concepts and tooling
• Collaborate with and mentor junior team members
• Communicate with cross-functional internal teams, stakeholders, and external partners as needed
• Participate in and lead PI Planning events

• Support the County of San Diego Contract from January 2027 through August 2027
• Support sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and Kanban boards
• Keep software delivery teams moving
• Help teams deliver County projects on time
• Work on real projects that modernize County services
• Contribute to emerging work applying AI to how software is designed, built, and delivered
• Collaborate with Peraton professionals on the County of San Diego program

Project Manager / Scrum Master Co-op

• Establish operational goals and plans for the 24/7 team supporting program objectives, incident SLAs, and stabilization targets
• Coach the team and Product Owners on Scrum, Kanban/Scrumban, and Epic/Story creation for incident-driven support work
• Manage expectations among Product Owners, service owners, and stakeholders
• Balance incident response, corrective maintenance, security/compliance activities, and minor enhancements
• Lead coordination during high-severity incidents and outages
• Facilitate incident bridges and ensure engagement of appropriate resources
• Provide timely communication to management and stakeholders
• Facilitate daily standups, shift handoffs, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and operational/incident reviews
• Promote continuous improvement in incident handling and team workflows
• Maintain JIRA and other information radiators showing incidents, defects, SLAs, operational tasks, and improvement items
• Ensure accurate risk/issue and corrective-maintenance logs
• Ensure definition of done includes root-cause analysis, verification, documentation, and updates to monitoring, runbooks, and knowledge bases
• Identify and escalate risks, dependencies, and impediments
• Coordinate with development, security, and platform teams
• Contribute to status, SLA, and incident reports
• Support operational support plans and post-deployment assessments
• Build a trusting, safe environment focused on learning, prevention, and accountability
• Coach the team toward self-management and operational discipline
• Participate in Scrum of Scrums and architecture, security, and operations governance forums

Senior SCRUM Master – Operational Support

• Serve as Scrum Master for cross-functional Agile teams
• Facilitate Increment Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement, Demonstrations, Retrospectives, Risk Management Reviews, and Agile Performance Reviews
• Work with Product Owners to maintain a prioritized, well-groomed backlog aligned with program objectives
• Identify and remove impediments affecting team velocity, quality, or delivery commitments
• Promote Agile best practices, Lean practices, and continuous improvement
• Provide transparency into team progress using velocity, burn-down charts, risks, and dependencies
• Monitor Agile delivery and Earned Value performance metrics and implement preventive and corrective actions
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering, Program Management, and Test teams on release planning and integration activities
• Ensure compliance with engineering processes, configuration-management standards, and program requirements
• Foster accountability, collaboration, and technical excellence within the team

Scrum Master jobs in United States

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