Agile Scrum Master – Delivery Coach for Tech Squads

MAXIMUS

Aberdeen (MD)

On-site

USD 80,000 - 121,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Maximus is seeking a Scrum Master to empower cross-functional technology delivery squads in the UK. You will coach agile practices, remove impediments, and ensure predictable, value-focused delivery with measurable dashboards for stakeholders.

Responsibilities include facilitating ceremonies, managing risks, dependencies, and release planning, and promoting DevOps and AI-enabled productivity to drive business outcomes across technology teams.

Qualifications

Certified Scrum Master or equivalent agile delivery qualification.
Agile coaching, Kanban, Lean, Product or DevOps certifications are desirable.
SAFe or other scaled-delivery certification is 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 appropriate delivery measures, including throughput, lead time, cycle time, work in progress, work-item ageing, predictability and defect trends 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 approved delivery platforms and encourage responsible adoption of AI-enabled productivity and collaboration tools where these provide measurable value.
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 to accountable owners, regularly reviewed, clearly reported and escalated where required.