Scrum Master - Agile Delivery Leader

NuAxis Innovations; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis Innovations in Washington, DC seeks a Scrum Master to facilitate disciplined Agile delivery for a multi-disciplinary modernization team, owning facilitation, team flow, impediment removal, and sprint transparency alongside the Project Manager and Technical Lead.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of Agile coaching, experience with sprint ceremonies, and strong Jira/Azure DevOps skills. This is a full-time on-site role at our federal IT-focused company.

Qualifications

• 3+ years facilitating Agile software-development teams and applying Agile principles in complex technical environments.
• Experience running sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, reviews/demos, and 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 working sessions.
• Coach the team on Agile principles, definition of ready/done, estimation, work-in-progress discipline, and sustainable delivery practices.
• Ensure stories have clear acceptance criteria, dependencies, testing expectations, and sufficient readiness before commitment.
• Remove or escalation impediments and coordinate resolution of cross-team dependencies that threaten sprint or release objectives.
• Protect the team from uncontrolled scope insertion while enabling transparent reprioritization through the agreed product/delivery process.
• Track sprint progress, predictability, carryover, blockers, defect trends, cycle time, and other agreed team metrics.
• Facilitate collaboration between developers, QA, Technical Lead, product owners/business stakeholders, Project Manager, and operations/security participants.
• Promote continuous improvement by turning retrospective actions and recurring impediments into owned, measurable improvements.
• Maintain accurate Agile tooling and ensure sprint status reflects the actual state of work.

Skills

Agile/Scrum facilitation

Jira

Azure DevOps

Coaching cross-functional teams

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

NuAxis Innovations in Washington, DC seeks a Scrum Master to facilitate disciplined Agile delivery for a multi-disciplinary modernization team, owning facilitation, team flow, impediment removal, and sprint transparency alongside the Project Manager and Technical Lead.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of Agile coaching, experience with sprint ceremonies, and strong Jira/Azure DevOps skills. This is a full-time on-site role at our federal IT-focused company.