Agile Delivery Lead (Scrum Master)

International Executive Service Corps; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis, a federal IT company, seeks a Scrum Master to facilitate disciplined Agile delivery for a cross-functional modernization team spanning front end, middleware, database, QA, security, and deployment. The Scrum Master will own facilitation, team flow, impediment removal, and sprint transparency while partnering with the Project Manager and Technical Lead.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of Agile experience, Bachelor's degree preferred, and certifications such as CSM/PMI-ACP/SAFe.

Qualifications

• 3+ years facilitating Agile software-development teams in complex environments.
• Experience running sprint planning, standups, backlog refinement, reviews/demos, retrospectives.
• Experience coaching cross-functional teams and managing dependencies across UI, services, database, QA, and deployment activities.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews/demos, retrospectives, and other team sessions.
• Coach the team on Agile principles, definition of ready/done, estimation, WIP discipline, and sustainable delivery practices.
• Ensure stories have clear acceptance criteria, dependencies, testing expectations, and sufficient readiness before commitment.
• Remove or elevate impediments and coordinate resolution of cross-team dependencies that threaten sprint or release objectives.
• Protect the team from scope creep while enabling transparent reprioritization through the product/delivery process.
• Track sprint progress, predictability, carryover, blockers, defect trends, cycle time, and other team metrics.
• Facilitate collaboration between developers, QA, Technical Lead, Product Owner, Project Manager, and operations/security participants.
• Promote continuous improvement by turning retrospective actions into measurable improvements.
• Maintain accurate Agile tooling and ensure sprint status reflects the actual state of work.

Skills

Agile facilitation

Coaching cross-functional teams

Sprint metrics

Impediment removal

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Certified Scrum Master or equivalent Agile cert.

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

NuAxis, a federal IT company, seeks a Scrum Master to facilitate disciplined Agile delivery for a cross-functional modernization team spanning front end, middleware, database, QA, security, and deployment. The Scrum Master will own facilitation, team flow, impediment removal, and sprint transparency while partnering with the Project Manager and Technical Lead.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of Agile experience, Bachelor's degree preferred, and certifications such as CSM/PMI-ACP/SAFe.