Scrum Master

CGI is looking for a highly talented, driven, and dynamic Scrum Master with a passion for solving problems. At CGI, a world class IT company, you will be involved in a mission critical project working with smart, dedicated people like yourself, building forward looking solutions and making an impact with both internal and client stakeholders. Bring your talents to a company that inspires personal and professional growth and values your ideas. Be part of building one of the largest independent technology and business services firms in the world and become a CGI Partner as we collaborate with our clients to transform the way they work today and enable their path forward. CGI’s capabilities and our client engagements will offer you an exciting path for growth.

This position is located in our Fairfax, VA office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable with a minimum of three (3) days in the office per week.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Serve as a senior Agile leader responsible for facilitating, championing, and continuously improving the Lean Agile software development process across a cross functional, modernization focused environment.

• Maintain Agile team health and progress in Agile tracking tools, ensuring stakeholders have high quality, data driven visibility into progress, risks, and improvement opportunities.

• Provide direct support to the RTE in multi-team release planning activities

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including daily stand ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, reviews, and cross team coordination activities.

• Keep the team sharply focused on sprint and PI objectives by reinforcing priorities, managing competing demands, and ensuring alignment with broader program goals.

• Proactively line up “what’s next” for each cross functional area-development, testing, architecture, business analysis, DevOps-by ensuring work is refined, understood, and ready for execution before the team needs it.

• Develop and maintain visual indicators (e.g., dashboards, Kanban systems, burndowns, dependency maps) that clearly communicate work status, flow, bottlenecks, and team health.

• Guide the team in using Agile metrics-such as velocity, throughput, cycle time, and quality trends-to drive continuous improvement, improve predictability, and strengthen delivery performance.

• Enable team and cross team collaboration, removing impediments quickly and supporting a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous learning.

• Champion and optimize team performance as a whole by assessing team dynamics, identifying systemic issues, and coaching the team toward higher levels of maturity and autonomy.

• Provide hands-on coaching and mentoring in Agile principles, Scrum practices, and scaling methodologies, supporting both new and experienced team members.

• Support the Product Owner and team in maintaining a healthy product backlog, ensuring backlog items are well defined, estimated, and prioritized based on business value.

• Apply knowledge of SDLC, DevOps/DevSecOps, modernization, and operational environments to help plan, prioritize, sequence, and manage work effectively.

• Communicate risks, dependencies, and blockers to leadership while driving timely resolution in partnership with program, technical, and business stakeholders.

• BA/BS in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience leading and delivering Agile IT development projects, with demonstrated impact in fast paced, modernization or new build environments in large team environments

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification.

• Strong experience with Agile project management tools (JIRA, Rally, Azure DevOps).

• Exceptional leadership, communication, analytical, and organizational skills, with the ability to influence without authority and drive outcomes across cross functional groups.

• Proven interpersonal skills related to conflict resolution and negotiations.

• Proven ability to foster collaboration, manage team dynamics, and resolve conflicts constructively.

• A self starter with the ability to anticipate issues, multi task, and solve complex problems innovatively and independently.

• Experience managing and orchestrating Agile development and O&M teams in iterative delivery environments.

• Strong understanding of release management, sprint execution, dependency management, and Agile delivery at scale.

Desired qualifications

• Strong experience with cloud environments (GCP, AWS/Azure)

• Strong experience in application modernization patterns (API-first, microservices, containerization)

Skills:

• Agile

• Continuous Deployment

• SAFe

• Scrum Master

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.