Scrum Master, Application Development

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +35 more states.

📋 Description

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, which include Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Backlog Refinement, and Retrospective sessions.

• Manage team delivery rhythms and workflows to meet sprint commitments and project goals.

• Collaborate with Product Owners to prioritize, refine, and prepare user stories.

• Monitor sprint progress, team capacity, and overall delivery performance.

• Encourage communication and collaboration among cross-functional team members.

• Coach Agile teams on Scrum principles, Agile values, and best practices for delivery.

• Guide team members, Product Owners, and stakeholders in the application of Agile methodologies.

• Support the adoption and consistent application of Agile practices, tools, and standards.

• Identify and implement process enhancements.

• Identify, track, and resolve obstacles, dependencies, resource limitations, and delivery risks.

• Escalate issues that require management intervention and ensure timely resolution.

• Assist with application enhancements and business capabilities in collaboration with Product Owners, stakeholders, and development teams.

• Facilitate alignment between business requirements, technical solutions, and sprint objectives.

• Support backlog management, story refinement, prioritization, estimation, and release planning.

• Ensure transparency using Agile management tools and reporting.

• Promote collaboration across application development, quality assurance, infrastructure, and support teams.

• Facilitate retrospectives and drive actionable improvement outcomes.

• Track and analyze Agile delivery metrics.

• Support Agile standards, governance processes, and development methodologies.

• Maintain Agile documentation, reporting artifacts, and team performance records.

• Perform other assigned duties and comply with all policies and standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Agile project delivery, application development, technology delivery, or related fields is required.

• At least 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or Agile Team Facilitator is required.

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) in Computer and Information Science is preferred.

• Proficient knowledge of Agile methodologies, Scrum principles, and software development lifecycles (Intermediate-Advanced).

• Proficient knowledge of DevOps, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and application development practices (Intermediate-Advanced).

• Strong facilitation and Agile coaching skills (Intermediate-Advanced).

• Skills in project delivery, risk management, dependency management, and problem-solving (Intermediate-Advanced).

• Strong stakeholder management, collaboration, and relationship-building skills (Intermediate-Advanced).

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills (Intermediate-Advanced).

• Strong planning, prioritization, organization, and time management skills (Intermediate-Advanced).

• Analytical, decision-making, and continuous improvement skills (Intermediate-Advanced).

• Ability to influence, facilitate consensus, and drive results without direct authority (Intermediate-Advanced).

• Capability to work remotely in one of the supported states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, or Wisconsin.

🏝️ Benefits

• MNAO’s comprehensive benefits package (details not provided).