Scrum Master

Turn complexity into clarity and deliver innovative applications as a SCRUM Master Senior at GDIT. Here, you’ll support our customers’ most important missions with smart, scalable solutions while we support you in growing and developing your technology career. As a SCRUM Master Senior, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership (HFPP). You’ll work daily with technical teams, data science, engineering, and others, to facilitate and perform fraud, waste, and abuse analytics on schedule for HFPP Partners.

HOW A SCRUM MASTER SENIOR WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Lead and facilitate the full Scrum lifecycle for technical teams, including sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Partner with Task Managers, Product Owners, and individual contributors to tailor Agile ceremonies and ways of working to how each team operates best.
• Drive continuous process improvement by identifying and removing impediments early, protecting the team from scope creep, and ensuring commitments remain realistic and achievable.
• Utilize Jira and Confluence to maintain accurate, up-to-date backlogs, sprint boards, documentation, and team artifacts.
• Track and report Agile health metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown, sprint predictability) and communicate them to leadership in clear, actionable terms.
• Coordinate with multiple teams and stakeholders to align priorities, manage dependencies, and maintain transparency across initiatives., Serve as a senior Scrum Master and agile coach, embedding Scrum values, improving squad maturity, enabling self-organization, removing systemic impediments, and driving continuous improvement. Partner with Product Owners on backlog readiness and value delivery, coach teams and leaders, support predictable outcomes, foster psychological safety, collaborate with other Scrum Masters, and contribute to agile scaling initiatives. Top Skills: AgileKanbanLeanLessNexusSafeScrumSpotify Model Bridgeway Benefit Technologies, Leads Scrum delivery across multiple product and platform teams, facilitates ceremonies, removes impediments, mentors Scrum Masters, and drives Agile adoption and continuous improvement. Partners with Product Owners, engineering leaders, and senior management to improve delivery predictability, prioritize backlogs, track metrics, manage risks, and establish consistent processes. Uses Azure DevOps and generative AI tools such as Claude and Copilot to improve productivity and delivery quality., Serve as a hands-on Scrum Master and agile coach to raise squad maturity, remove systemic impediments, improve backlog readiness and value delivery, foster psychological safety, drive continuous improvement using data, partner with Product Owners, and support scaling and consistency across multiple squads. Top Skills: AgileKanbanLeanLessNexusSafeScrumSpotify Model

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Agile Methodology, Conducting Standups, Meeting Organization, 5 + years of related experience, * Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent hands-on experience leading Scrum teams.

• CSM, PSM, or similar Agile/Scrum certification preferred but not required.
• 5-8+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Agile facilitator.
• Demonstrated experience supporting technical and/or data-focused teams (e.g., data engineering, data science, analytics, or software development).
• Proven success guiding teams through Agile adoption and continuous improvement.
• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence for backlog management, sprint tracking, and Agile documentation.
• Experience generating and interpreting Agile metrics (velocity, burndown, sprint predictability) and presenting them in a way that informs decision-making at the leadership level.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to influence and motivate without direct managerial authority; you lead through trust, transparency, and collaboration rather than hierarchy.
• Comfortable coordinating across multiple teams simultaneously and managing competing priorities.

CLEARANCE AND WORK REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• 100% remote role; must reside in the United States.

• At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities.
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals.
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, competitive pay and paid time off.
• Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home.
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.

The likely salary range for this position is $102,000 - $138,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40, Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process: As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.