Scrum Master

Scrum Master

Own your opportunity to turn collaboration and Agile principles into measurable outcomes for our customers’ most complex challenges. As a Scrum Master Agile Delivery Facilitator, you’ll enable effective team performance, guide continuous improvement, and ensure delivery success. Here, you’ll see the bigger picture on mission initiatives and where your Agile leadership career can go at GDIT.
 

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a Scrum Master, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of USPS. You will play a crucial role in enabling the optimization of business functions at USPS.
As a Scrum Master Agile Delivery Facilitator, you will guide multiple development teams to maintain clear sprint goals, manage cross-team dependencies and continuously improve delivery flow and team engagement.   Provide high energy Agile facilitation for 3-5 cross-functional development teams delivering financial/payment capabilities across mainframe, distributed, and cloud platforms in a large Government environment.  Conduct scrum ceremonies and teach Agile best practices.  Make the process engaging, value-focused and predictable. 

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Scrum Master must have:
Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field from an accredited College/University is preferred.
• Alternative Path: If the candidate does not possess a relevant four-year degree, an additional four years of relevant work experience will be required.

Required Experience:

Education: Bachelor’s Degree preferred; however, additional experience can be substituted for degree.

Required Experience: 5+ years of Scrum Master/Agile facilitation (2+ years with multiple concurrent development teams.

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in IT

Required Technical Skills:

• Ability to quickly grasp business and technical requirements, understand or learn technical jargon and government acronyms, produce communication for all levels of the organization.
• Proficient with VersionOne / Agility (or comparable tool) for boards, dependencies, impediments, and lightweight rollup reporting.
• Proven ability to keep ceremonies purposeful, timeboxed, and engaging (planning, daily, refinement, review, retro).
• Demonstrated success by reducing carryover, aging blockers, and decision latency without adding heavy process.
• Ability to coach backlog readiness (thin vertical slices, clear acceptance criteria, limited WIP).
• Hold teams accountable to sizing activities to ensure project ends dates can be projected.
• Manage over and under talkers in ceremonies. 
• Ability to schedule, track, and manage meetings.
• Facilitate core Agile events and lightweight cross-team syncs; maintain sprint goal clarity.
• Make Agile “feel useful” via energetic, varied, participatory ceremonies (not rote compliance).
• Track and drive resolution of impediments (environment, integration, data, approvals) across platforms.
• Coordinate cross-team and cross-platform dependencies (batch windows vs deployment timing, integration points).
• Maintain visible radiators: sprint goals, impediment log, experiment tracker, simple metrics (goal attainment %, carryover, blocker aging).
• Coach Product Owners / BAs and tech leaders on prioritization, slicing, and readiness.
• Drive 1–2 small improvement experiments per team per sprint; follow through to closure.
• Foster psychological safety, inclusive participation, and sustainable pace.
• The Scrum Master will heavily be using these skills: communication, leadership, organization, time management, budget management, risk management, problem-solving, adaptability, and teamwork.
• Effective at building strong business relationships across teams to ensure a positive customer experience and quality of software projects into Production.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to effectively work directly with customers, the executive leadership team, and technical staff.
• Effective liaison between business and technical teams.
• Strong facilitation skills to effectively lead discussions across multiple groups.

Preferred Skills:

• CSM/PSM/A-CSM
• Experience with informal scaling practices (Scrum of Scrums, quarterly alignment)
• Comfort with basic flow visuals (cycle time scatter, aging WIP snapshot)

Security Clearance Level:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Location:

• Remote