Position Summary:
Title: Scrum Master Standard III
Duration: Long Term
Location: Washington, DC 20433
Hybrid Onsite: 4 days per week from Day 1, with a full transition to 100% onsite anticipated soon
Required Experience:
Agile delivery leadership: Lead sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives using Scrum/Kanban practices.
Business and technology alignment: Work closely with product owners, business teams, architects, developers, security, and platform teams to keep priorities and delivery aligned.
Delivery planning: Translate roadmap priorities into executable sprints, milestones, dependencies, and release plans.
Dependency and blocker management: Proactively identify cross-team dependencies, risks, blockers, and decisions, and drive them to closure.
Backlog readiness: Ensure epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, priorities, and dependencies are sufficiently defined before development starts.
AI delivery awareness: Understand the delivery lifecycle for AI solutions, including data/content readiness, AI evaluation, responsible AI controls, security reviews, and business validation.
Release coordination: Coordinate testing, user acceptance testing, production readiness, deployment, and post-release follow-up across teams.
Tracking and reporting: Maintain accurate delivery status in tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira, covering milestones, sprint progress, risks, dependencies, and action items.
Stakeholder communication: Provide concise status updates and escalate issues requiring product, business, or management decisions.
Team facilitation: Remove impediments, improve collaboration, reinforce accountability, and continuously improve the team's delivery practices.
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