Senior Scrum Master

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🦀 Maryland, Virginia – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $113k - $188k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚡️ Scrum Master + Agile Coach

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Guidehouse

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2018

💰 Grant on 2023-02

Consulting • Digital Services • Public Sector

Guidehouse is a global consultancy offering advisory, digital, and managed services across commercial and public sectors. It is purpose-built to support industries such as national security, financial services, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure. Guidehouse collaborates with leaders to navigate complexity and drives transformational changes that impact the future. Their expertise spans data analytics, digital technologies, risk management, and more, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and innovation.

📋 Description

• Lead Agile execution for teams supporting Grants.gov operations, maintenance, enhancements, transition activities, application platform services, application management, security, reporting, and communications support. • Facilitate planning, daily coordination, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release readiness, dependency management, and cross-team collaboration to help deliver reliable, secure, and user-centered services. • Work closely with federal stakeholders, product owners, technical leads, developers, testers, operations staff, security teams, IV&V partners, helpdesk partners, and modernization teams to align delivery activities with mission priorities, HHS EPLC expectations, compliance requirements, and cost-efficiency objectives. • Track sprint progress, risks, issues, dependencies, impediments, and delivery metrics; escalate blockers and support timely resolution across development, operations, security, helpdesk, IV&V, and modernization stakeholders. • Support transition-in and transition-out activities by helping teams organize work, validate readiness, manage dependencies, and sustain continuity of development, operations, maintenance, and user support services. • Prepare and communicate Agile status, sprint progress, risks, dependencies, action items, and delivery insights in formats appropriate for executive, federal, technical, and non-technical audiences.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree. Additional Four(4) years of exp needed in lieu of degree. • Four(4) to Ten(10)+ years of experience supporting software delivery, IT operations, or technology modernization programs, including 5+ years serving as a Scrum Master, Agile delivery lead, or equivalent role. • Demonstrated experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and helping teams apply Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or hybrid Agile practices in complex delivery environments. • Experience managing impediments, risks, dependencies, action items, delivery metrics, and cross-team coordination for application development, O&M, testing, release, and production support activities. • Experience supporting federal IT programs, mission-critical applications, public-facing systems, or shared service platforms. • Working knowledge of application lifecycle management, requirements management, quality assurance, configuration management, release management, and DevSecOps delivery practices. • Ability to coordinate effectively with product owners, federal stakeholders, technical teams, security teams, operations teams, IV&V partners, helpdesk partners, and other contractors. • Strong understanding of: Agile delivery frameworks and team facilitation practices Backlog refinement, sprint planning, capacity planning, and release planning Risk, issue, dependency, and impediment management Delivery metrics, dashboards, status reporting, and stakeholder communications Testing coordination, release readiness, operational support, and continuous improvement • Experience using Agile and collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, or similar platforms. • Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills with the ability to translate complex delivery information for executive, federal, technical, and non-technical audiences. • Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays • Parental Leave • 401(k) Retirement Plan • Group Term Life and Travel Assistance • Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance • Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts • Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities • Employee Referral Program • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach • Care.com annual membership • Employee Assistance Program • Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)