Mid-Level Scrum Master for Federal IT Delivery

Navigant Consulting; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidehouse seeks a Mid-Level Scrum Master to support Agile software delivery for a federal program. You will facilitate Scrum events, coach teams, and remove impediments while partnering with Product Owners, vendors, and stakeholders to maintain backlog clarity and delivery momentum.

You will ensure adherence to HHS EPLC governance, foster continuous improvement, and help scale agile practices across multi‑team environments in a regulated setting.

Qualifications

• Must obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; adjudication required before onboarding.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of four (4) years supporting Agile software development or IT modernization teams, including at least two (2) years as Scrum Master.
• Working knowledge of Scrum events, accountabilities, artifacts, and empirical delivery practices.
• Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and helping teams address impediments, dependencies, delivery risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Ability to coach team members without directing their work.
• Experience partnering with Product Owners on sprint goals, backlog refinement, readiness, and stakeholder collaboration.
• Understanding of SDLC, iterative delivery, testing, release coordination, and DevSecOps concepts.
• Knowledge of federal IT governance and EPLC documentation, reviews, approvals, stage-gate requirements.
• Ability to track and communicate delivery metrics, risks, dependencies, decisions, and action items clearly.
• Strong facilitation, communication, conflict-resolution, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate with business, technical, vendor, and government stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Scrum events, including sprint planning, daily Scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions.
• Coach team members on Agile values, Scrum practices, self-management, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with the Product Owner to support clear sprint goals, a transparent backlog, and well-understood backlog items.
• Identify, track, and help remove impediments; elevate issues requiring program, stakeholder, or organizational action.
• Protect the team from unnecessary disruption while promoting engagement with stakeholders and dependent teams.
• Monitor sprint progress, delivery trends, risks, dependencies, and team health using Agile metrics and visual tools.
• Facilitate conversations to resolve conflict, clarify expectations, and strengthen cross-functional collaboration.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and support release planning, demos, testing readiness, and incremental delivery activities.
• Help maintain working practices, quality, and a clear Definition of Done.
• Promote data-informed retrospectives and follow-through on improvement actions.
• Maintain delivery artifacts like boards, impediment/risk logs, dependencies, actions, and stakeholder updates.
• Ensure alignment with federal IT governance requirements (EPLC) and stage-gate expectations.
• Support Agile adoption across multi-team, multi-vendor federal program.

Skills

Facilitation

Agile practices

Coaching

Communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

SharePoint

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Guidehouse seeks a Mid-Level Scrum Master to support Agile software delivery for a federal program. You will facilitate Scrum events, coach teams, and remove impediments while partnering with Product Owners, vendors, and stakeholders to maintain backlog clarity and delivery momentum.

You will ensure adherence to HHS EPLC governance, foster continuous improvement, and help scale agile practices across multi‑team environments in a regulated setting.