Scrum Master

Overview

The Scrum Master serves as a servant leader for the CRAFT team, guiding Agile delivery practices to support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of an examiner workflow tool. This role facilitates Scrum ceremonies, promotes backlog hygiene, removes impediments, and coaches the team, Product Owners, and stakeholders to embrace Agile principles while supporting delivery in an AWS cloud environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Scrum Master for the CRAFT team, facilitating Agile best practices and supporting successful delivery of the examiner workflow tool.
• Lead and facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Coach the development team, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile values, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with Product Owners to ensure backlog refinement, prioritization, and planning activities are effective and aligned to delivery goals.
• Identify, track, and remove blockers and impediments that affect team velocity, delivery, or collaboration.
• Promote self-organization, accountability, and high-performing team behaviors across the Agile delivery lifecycle.
• Support the team in adopting Agile techniques such as user stories, continuous integration, continuous testing, pairing, automated testing, and Agile games.
• Collaborate with management and cross-functional stakeholders to reinforce Agile transformation efforts and delivery alignment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computing Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience leading projects or key business initiatives.
• 2 years of IT portfolio and customer relationship management experience.
• At least one of the following certifications or equivalent: PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
• Demonstrated ability to engage and coach product teams on self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Experience working closely with Product Owners to scope and plan current and future work.
• Knowledge of Agile delivery approaches including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe.
• Hands-on knowledge of Agile techniques such as user stories, continuous integration, continuous testing, pairing, automated testing, and Agile games.
• Experience serving as a Scrum Master in an Agile transformation environment.

Salary: $143,900 - 151,000

Additional benefits include:

• Paid Time Off & Holiday Pay
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Disability, Life Insurance, and AD&D
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-Tax 401K and/or After-Tax Roth IRA (with employer matching contribution)
• Tuition and Technical Training Reimbursement
• Exercise Reimbursement
• Computer Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, keyboard, and standard office equipment
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds
• Fine hand manipulation (keyboarding)

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Exposure to general office conditions while conducting office duties
• Moderate noise (i.e., business office with computers, phone, and printers, light traffic)
• Ability to work in a confined area
• Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period

Working at Edgewater Federal Solutions:

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services, and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies since 2018.

Edgewater Federal Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It has been and continues to be our policy to provide equal employment to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status and/or other status protected by applicable law.