Senior Agile Scrum Master – Remote

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Senior Agile Scrum Master driving predictable delivery for Koniag’s federal government technology solutions. Coordinating Scrum, UAT, JIRA workflows, risks, dependencies, and releases.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with business stakeholders, Product Owners, technical teams, and program leadership to understand business objectives, processes, and technology needs
  • Elicit, analyze, document, and validate functional and technical requirements
  • Create and maintain epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, business requirements, process flows, and supporting documentation
  • Write clear, detailed, and testable user stories for development and QA teams
  • Serve as ScrumMaster for one or more Agile development teams
  • Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
  • Establish priorities and maintain healthy product backlogs
  • Drive sprint execution, track commitments, identify risks and dependencies, and remove impediments
  • Use JIRA to manage epics, user stories, tasks, defects, sprint boards, workflows, dashboards, and Agile metrics
  • Support User Acceptance Testing, including test planning, coordination, defect tracking, business-user communication, and readiness/status reporting
  • Work with technical teams on system architecture, integrations, APIs, applications, data flows, environments, and technical dependencies
  • Translate technical and business requirements into actionable Agile work items
  • Support program and project management activities, including status reporting, RAID tracking, dependency management, milestone tracking, resource coordination, and executive-level reporting
  • Coordinate delivery activities across multiple workstreams
  • Monitor Agile metrics including velocity, throughput, cycle time, sprint health, backlog health, and defect trends
  • Facilitate issue resolution and escalate risks and blockers
  • Promote Agile best practices, continuous improvement, transparency, accountability, and collaboration
  • Support release planning, production readiness, deployment coordination, and post-release activities
  • Maintain project and delivery documentation and provide visibility into progress, risks, and milestones

Requirements:

  • 7+ years of experience in Agile/Scrum environments, with significant experience as a ScrumMaster
  • Strong understanding of Scrum, Agile, Kanban, SDLC, and software delivery methodologies
  • Demonstrated experience supporting technical software development teams
  • Strong hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence, including dashboards, workflows, reporting, and Agile boards
  • Experience coordinating and supporting UAT, including test planning, execution, defect management, and business stakeholder coordination
  • Strong understanding of technical concepts including applications, databases, APIs, system integrations, environments, and software development lifecycles
  • Experience supporting program/project management activities across multiple workstreams
  • Strong experience managing dependencies, risks, issues, action items, and delivery milestones
  • Excellent facilitation, communication, organization, and stakeholder-management skills
  • Ability to work effectively with both technical teams and senior business stakeholders
  • Proven ability to operate in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities
  • Ability to obtain a Public Trust
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent Agile certification preferred
  • PMP, PMI-ACP, or other project/program management certification preferred
  • Experience working on large-scale enterprise technology programs preferred
  • Experience with Agile transformation or process improvement initiatives preferred
  • Experience with tools such as Confluence, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or similar technology platforms preferred
  • Experience creating executive-level status reports, dashboards, and delivery metrics preferred
  • Experience working in highly regulated or complex enterprise environments preferred

Benefits:

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Paid time off
  • Paid parental leave
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Commuter benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement