Agile Delivery Lead – Scrum Master, Senior

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Lead Agile delivery initiatives for Team 3, focusing on applicant-facing services, workflows, and associated software capabilities.

• Facilitate sprint planning sessions, daily coordination meetings, backlog refinement activities, sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.

• Establish and uphold a reliable Agile delivery cadence that aligns with Government priorities and sanctioned program schedules.

• Collaborate with product owners, mission liaisons, and technical leads to prioritize and refine the backlog.

• Assist in formulating realistic sprint goals and commitments based on priorities, capacity, user requirements, dependencies, and risks.

• Monitor sprint commitments, progress, changes in scope, impediments, dependencies, risks, decisions, and action items.

• Identify and escalate delivery impediments while coordinating their resolution.

• Oversee cross-team dependencies that involve workflows, UX, integrations, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, testing, training, and releases.

• Organize weekly demonstrations and gather feedback, decisions, backlog updates, and action items.

• Prepare and submit Development Sprint Plans and Sprint Summary Reports.

• Track and analyze delivery metrics such as predictability, throughput, cycle time, work aging, impediments, defects, and commitment completion.

• Utilize delivery data to identify trends, facilitate improvement discussions, and suggest corrective measures.

• Coordinate requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, user research, accessibility, usability, and validation needs.

• Collaborate with developers, testers, cybersecurity personnel, and release teams on secure development, testing, and deployment processes.

• Support urgent defects, applicant-impacting issues, security-related changes, release planning, release-readiness reviews, user acceptance, training, and operational transitions.

• Maintain Agile boards, dashboards, dependency logs, action logs, decision records, and program artifacts.

• Facilitate communication among Team 3, Agile teams, program leadership, Government representatives, and mission stakeholders.

• Coach team members and stakeholders on Agile practices, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Provide delivery status updates, forecasts, risks, and performance information for program reporting and governance.

• Assist in the continuous improvement of Agile delivery and applicant-services processes throughout the ENLIST program.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent recognized by the applicable labor category.

• A minimum of ten years of relevant professional experience.

• Experience in facilitating Agile software delivery teams.

• Experience managing dependencies across multiple technical teams or workstreams.

• Experience in facilitating sprint planning, daily coordination, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.

• Experience in tracking sprint commitments, impediments, risks, dependencies, actions, and delivery metrics.

• Experience collaborating with product owners, technical leads, developers, testers, and Government or business stakeholders.

• Capability to prepare sprint plans, delivery summaries, metrics, status reports, and executive-level briefings.

• Ability to identify delivery risks and impediments, coordinate resolutions, and communicate impacts to stakeholders.

• Strong facilitation, leadership, conflict-resolution, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a complex, cross-functional software environment.

• Preferred: Scrum or Agile certification, such as CSM, A-CSM, CSP-SM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Release Train Engineer, PMI-ACP, or equivalent.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting federal or Department of Defense software development or modernization programs.

• Preferred: Experience leading Agile delivery for mission-critical, regulated, or high-availability information systems.

• Preferred: Experience supporting applicant-facing, customer-facing, self-service, or workflow-intensive applications.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting military accession processing, recruiting, personnel processing, or similar mission workflows.

• Preferred: Experience coordinating user research, accessibility, usability testing, training, and user acceptance activities.

• Preferred: Experience preparing formal sprint plans, sprint summary reports, Government demonstrations, and contract delivery artifacts.

• Preferred: Experience coordinating delivery across software, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, testing, UI/UX, training, and operations teams.

• Preferred: Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, or similar platforms.

• Preferred: Experience working in Agile, DevSecOps, or secure software development environments.

• Preferred: Familiarity with requirements traceability, user acceptance testing, Section 508 accessibility, release management, configuration management, and CI/CD practices.

• Preferred: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Regular full-time employment.

• Opportunity to support the USMEPCOM ENLIST program and mission-critical government services.

• Remote work arrangement.

• Chicago-area candidates preferred.

• Opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional Agile, software development, cybersecurity, testing, training, and Government stakeholder teams.