Agile Delivery Coach & Scrum Master

MAXIMUS

Hattiesburg (MS)

On-site

USD 64,000 - 94,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

MAXIMUS is seeking a Scrum Master to enable cross-functional delivery squads and ensure value delivery with quality, security and operational readiness. You will coach teams, facilitate ceremonies, manage impediments and dependencies, and provide transparent delivery dashboards.

You will mentor product owners, collaborate with stakeholders, and promote DevOps and AI-enabled productivity to improve flow and predictability.

Qualifications

Proven experience as Scrum Master in agile software, digital, product or technology delivery environments.
Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Lean and iterative delivery principles.
Experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies, workshops, planning sessions and stakeholder meetings.
Ability to coach technical and non-technical colleagues in agile practices and continuous improvement.
Experience identifying and resolving impediments and managing risks, issues and cross-team dependencies.
Ability to use delivery data and metrics to improve flow, predictability, quality and decision-making.
Experience with agile delivery platforms such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally or equivalent.
Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder-management and influencing skills.
Experience managing multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.
Understanding of software delivery lifecycles, release planning, quality and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

Facilitate effective Scrum ceremonies, coach squads in agile principles, promote self-organisation and ownership.
Identify, manage and remove delivery impediments, improve team flow and predictability, coordinate dependencies.
Mentor squad members, product owners and stakeholders in agile practices and ensure improvement actions are owned.
Use delivery metrics to identify risks, improve squad performance and provide meaningful dashboards.
Build relationships across technology and the wider MAXIMUS organisation and communicate progress effectively.
Promote DevOps, continuous delivery, automation and AI-enabled productivity with measurable value.
Maintain accurate delivery information within the platform as a single source of truth and escalate blockers.