Strategic Scrum Master & Agile Delivery Coach

MAXIMUS; Columbus (GA); Presencial; USD 90.000 - 120.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Maximus is seeking a proactive Scrum Master to enable cross-functional delivery squads in the US. You will coach teams, facilitate Scrum ceremonies and help balance value, quality and reliability while maintaining visibility into progress.

You will mentor product owners and stakeholders, remove impediments, use metrics to improve flow, and promote DevOps and AI-enabled productivity tools where value is demonstrated.

Qualificações

• Certified Scrum Master with proven delivery experience.
• Experience coaching agile teams, Kanban and Lean.
• Ability to use delivery data to drive decisions.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira or Rally.

Responsabilidades

• 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 deliver 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.

Conhecimentos

Scrum Master

Agile coaching

Kanban/Lean

Facilitation

Delivery metrics

Azure DevOps/Jira/Rally

Stakeholder management

Cross-team coordination

Formação

CSM/PSMI/PSM II

SAFe certification

Agile/DevOps certification

Ferramentas

Azure DevOps

Jira

Rally

Descrição da vaga

Maximus is seeking a proactive Scrum Master to enable cross-functional delivery squads in the US. You will coach teams, facilitate Scrum ceremonies and help balance value, quality and reliability while maintaining visibility into progress.

You will mentor product owners and stakeholders, remove impediments, use metrics to improve flow, and promote DevOps and AI-enabled productivity tools where value is demonstrated.