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# Scrum Master, UK

- **Company:** Maximus, Inc.
- **Location:** Rapid City, SD, United States
- **Salary:** $45,000.0 - $55,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Collaborative Software, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Data Stream Management Systems, Scrum Methodology, Release Management, Software Engineering, Data Analytics
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/scrum-master-uk-rapid-city-sd--e7d4cced-3ee1-48b0-9de2-ce813a002bf1

## About the Role

ScrumMaster, Scrum Project Management and Software Development, Customer Relations, Develop and Maintain Customers, Delivery Management, Mentoring, Team Player, Problem Solving Skills, Risk Analysis, Reporting Dashboards, * Proven experience working as a Scrum Master within an agile software, digital, product or technology delivery environment.

 * Strong understanding of Scrum, Kanban, Lean and iterative delivery principles.

 * Experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies, workshops, planning sessions and stakeholder meetings.

 * Ability to coach technical and non-technical colleagues in agile practices, team ownership and continuous improvement.

 * Experience identifying and resolving impediments and managing risks, issues and cross-team dependencies.

 * Ability to use delivery data and metrics to improve flow, predictability, quality and decision-making.

 * Experience using agile delivery platforms such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally or equivalent.

 * Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder-management and influencing skills.

 * Experience managing multiple priorities within a fast-paced or complex delivery environment.

 * Good understanding of software delivery lifecycles, release planning, quality and operational readiness.

Desirable skills

 * Experience supporting cloud, digital, software engineering or technology-transformation delivery.

 * Exposure to DevOps practices, continuous integration, continuous delivery and automation.

 * Experience operating across multiple squads or within a coordinated or scaled delivery environment.

 * Knowledge of value-stream management and flow efficiency techniques.

 * Experience working within a complex enterprise, healthcare, public-sector or regulated environment.

 * Experience contributing to agile communities of practice, delivery standards or coaching beyond a single squad.

 * Understanding of product-led, customer-centred and outcome-based delivery.

 * Awareness of responsible AI-enabled delivery and productivity practices.

Qualifications

 * Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master I or II (PSMI/II), or equivalent agile delivery qualification.

 * Agile coaching, Kanban, Lean, Product or DevOps certification. (Desirable)

 * SAFe or other scaled-delivery certification. (Desirable)

 * Equivalent experience within technology, digital, software engineering or product delivery environments.

Maximus Competencies

 * Embraces Respect
 * Partners Effectively
 * Creates Innovative Solutions
 * Focuses on the Customer
 * Demonstrates Compassion
 * Takes Responsibility & Acts with Integrity.

Individual competencies

 * Clear communication, facilitation and stakeholder influence
 * Collaborative leadership & coaching
 * Data-informed decision-making and delivery discipline
 * Customer focus and results orientation
 * Constructive problem-solving and continuous-improvement mindset
 * Adaptability, resilience and learning agility
 * Emotional intelligence, integrity and accountability

## Description

1
. 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.

 2. 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.

 3. 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.

 4. 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.

 5. 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.

 6. 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.

 7. 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., Travel may be required periodically to support team collaboration, service delivery and key stakeholder meetings.