Scrum Master – Remote

Creative Information Technology, Inc.; Falls Church, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Information Technology Inc (CITI) in Falls Church, VA seeks an experienced Scrum Master to guide Agile teams and drive value across programs. You will coach teams, remove impediments, and promote transparency with stakeholders, while supporting product owners and agile practices across multiple delivery streams.

The role emphasizes servant leadership, collaboration, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced government and commercial environment, with a strong focus on ROI and delivery

Qualifications

• Scrum Master certification or equivalent experience preferred.
• Experience with agile tracking tools (JIRA, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Knowledge of KPI development and performance metrics helpful.

Responsibilities

• Guide a team and organization using Agile/Scrum best practices, methodologies and values.
• Assess Scrum maturity and coach teams to higher levels at a sustainable pace.
• Remove impediments or guide teams to remove impediments.
• Facilitate discussion, decisions, team building and conflict resolution.
• Support Product Owner by grooming and maintaining the backlog.
• Engage in agile delivery using Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc.

Skills

Agile coaching

Scrum Master

Facilitation

Stakeholder comms

Team facilitation

Change management

Tools

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Job description

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Contract Falls Church, VA, US

10 days ago Requisition ID: 1874

About us

Creative Information Technology Inc (CITI) is an esteemed IT enterprise renowned for its exceptional customer service and innovation. We serve both government and commercial sectors, offering a range of solutions such as Healthcare IT, Human Services, Identity Credentialing, Cloud Computing, and Big Data Analytics. With clients in the US and abroad, we hold key contract vehicles including GSA IT Schedule 70, NIH CIO-SP3, GSA Alliant, and DHS-Eagle II.

Join us in driving growth and seizing new business opportunities.

Role and Responsibilities

• Guide a team and organization using Agile/Scrum best practices, methodologies and values.
• Assess the Scrum maturity of the team and organization and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Remove impediments or guide a team to remove impediments.
• Facilitate completion of work assignments, assigning, or dictating work assignments.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, team building and conflict resolution.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating
• information: supporting product managers to maximize return on investment (ROI) and meet the organization’s objectives.
• Support and educate the Product Owner, to include, but not limited to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Engage in agile delivery utilizing best agile methodology (i.e. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc.).
• Provide support to a team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example
• 5 years of Scrum Master experience
• Experience with Change Management

Preferred Qualification

• Identifying and building Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure program Performance.
• Experience with agile tracking tools (JIRA, Azure Dev Ops, etc.).
• Creating and maintaining product timelines, status reports, communication plans, and other product management related documentation.