Remote Scrum Master — SAFe & Cross‑Team Delivery Leader

gdit; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GDIT is seeking a Scrum Master to guide Agile teams on a complex government software program. You will facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives, coach Product Owners, remove impediments, and ensure clear user stories and acceptance criteria.

Utilize Jira/Confluence to track progress, build dashboards, and report metrics for Agile maturity. Requires 5+ years Scrum/SAFe/Kanban, defense/intelligence experience, and U.S. citizenship with an active Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of Scrum Master or scaled Agile experience supporting defense or intelligence community work.
• Experience leading Scrum teams and applying Scrum, SAFe, or Kanban across technical groups.
• Familiarity with software and hardware integration, JIRA, and Confluence.
• Experience coordinating Agile work with traditional program controls in a government acquisition environment.
• U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance, with ability to maintain it.

Responsibilities

• Plan and facilitate sprint and program increment events, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and related workshops.
• Coach teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile practices, story readiness, estimation, and continuous improvement.
• Help teams define clear user stories and acceptance criteria, make realistic commitments, and maintain transparent backlogs in Agile tracking tools.
• Identify and remove impediments, facilitate conflict resolution, and coordinate dependencies across teams and Agile Release Train activities.
• Track delivery data, create dashboards or other information displays, and use metrics to assess progress and Agile maturity.
• Coordinate sprint execution with schedules, earned value management, milestone reviews, and other program management processes.

Skills

Scrum Master experience

Scaled Agile (SAFe)

Agile coaching

JIRA

Confluence

Stakeholder management

Metrics tracking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

GDIT is seeking a Scrum Master to guide Agile teams on a complex government software program. You will facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives, coach Product Owners, remove impediments, and ensure clear user stories and acceptance criteria.

Utilize Jira/Confluence to track progress, build dashboards, and report metrics for Agile maturity. Requires 5+ years Scrum/SAFe/Kanban, defense/intelligence experience, and U.S. citizenship with an active Secret clearance.