Scrum Master

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $102k - $174k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⚡️ Scrum Master + Agile Coach

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LMI

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1961

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

🎖️ Defense

Logistics • Healthcare • Defense

LMI is a forward-thinking company that focuses on reimagining the path from insight to outcome through innovative solutions in various sectors, including applied AI and digital health. They provide advanced analytics, engineering support, and performance optimization across defense, health, and civilian markets, with a strong commitment to enhancing mission effectiveness for government clients. With a focus on collaboration and research, LMI aims to drive positive change through its diverse capabilities and partnerships.

📋 Description

• 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

• 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.