Agile Delivery Coach & Scrum Master

MAXIMUS

Morgantown (WV)

Hybrid

USD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Maximus is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to enable delivery squads across technology platforms in a fast-paced environment. You will coach teams, facilitate ceremonies, remove impediments and help balance pace, quality and resilience to deliver customer value.

You will build delivery dashboards, use metrics to drive improvements, align with stakeholders and translate challenges into actionable plans. A strong Agile background, certification, and experience with Azure DevOps or Jira are

Qualifications

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master I or II (PSMI/II), or equivalent agile delivery qualification.
Agile coaching, Kanban, Lean, Product or DevOps certification (Desirable).
SAFe or other scaled-delivery certification (Desirable).
Equivalent experience within technology, digital, software engineering or product delivery environments.

Responsibilities

Facilitate effective Scrum ceremonies, coach squads in agile principles and behaviours, promote self-organisation and ownership, and help product owners and delivery teams maintain focus on customer and business value.
Identify, manage and remove delivery impediments, improve team flow and predictability, support capacity and release planning, coordinate cross-squad dependencies and help squads balance pace, quality, and operational resilience.
Mentor squad members, product owners and stakeholders in agile practices, facilitate collaborative problem-solving, challenge ineffective ways of working and ensure improvement actions arising from retrospectives, delivery data and feedback are owned and delivered.
Use delivery measures to identify risks, improve squad performance and provide meaningful delivery dashboards and stakeholder insights.
Build strong relationships across technology and the wider Maximus organisation, translate delivery challenges into clear business impacts, communicate progress and dependencies effectively and facilitate informed planning, prioritisation and decision-making.
Promote DevOps, continuous-delivery, automation, customer-centred and outcome-based practices, support effective use of delivery platforms and encourage AI-enabled productivity where value is measurable.
Maintain accurate delivery information within the agreed platform as a single source of truth and ensure risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, blockers actions and decisions are recorded, assigned and escalated when required.