Senior Scrum Master

Senior Scrum Master – Grants.gov Operations As a Senior Scrum Master, you will lead Agile execution for teams supporting Grants.gov operations, maintenance, enhancements, transition activities, application platform services, application management, security, reporting, and communications support. You will facilitate planning, daily coordination, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release readiness, dependency management, and cross‑team collaboration to help deliver reliable, secure, and user‑centered services. Key Responsibilities Lead Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and cross‑team coordination sessions. Partner with product owners, federal stakeholders, technical leads, developers, testers, operations staff, security teams, IV&V partners, help‑desk partners, and modernization teams to maintain a prioritized backlog aligned to program goals and service area commitments. Track sprint progress, risks, issues, dependencies, impediments, and delivery metrics; elevate blockers and support timely resolution across development, operations, security, help‑desk, IV&V, and modernization stakeholders. Promote predictable delivery by supporting capacity planning, release readiness, change coordination, deployment planning, and operational continuity for a public‑facing, mission‑critical federal system. Coordinate Agile delivery activities with HHS EPLC artifacts, technical documentation, security documentation, testing artifacts, change requests, release notes, and other program deliverables. Support transition‑in and transition‑out activities by helping teams organize work, validate readiness, manage dependencies, and sustain continuity of development, operations, maintenance, and user support services. Use delivery data, team feedback, operational trends, and retrospective outcomes to identify process improvements, strengthen team performance, and improve transparency for program leadership. Support coordination of issue management from identification through closure, including software issues, documentation gaps, Tier2 help‑desk escalations, S2S escalations, and production support priorities. Prepare and communicate Agile status, sprint progress, risks, dependencies, action items, and delivery insights for executive, federal, technical, and non‑technical audiences. Foster collaboration, accountability, psychological safety, and continuous improvement across distributed teams and multi‑contractor delivery environments. Qualifications – What You Will Need Bachelor’s degree (or Four (4) years of experience in lieu of degree). Four (4) to Ten (10)+ years of experience supporting software delivery, IT operations, or technology modernization programs, including 5+ years as a Scrum Master, Agile delivery lead, or equivalent role. Demonstrated experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and helping teams apply Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or hybrid Agile practices in complex delivery environments. Experience managing impediments, risks, dependencies, action items, delivery metrics, and cross‑team coordination for application development, O&M, testing, release, and production support activities. Experience supporting federal IT programs, mission‑critical applications, public‑facing systems, or shared service platforms. Knowledge of application lifecycle management, requirements management, quality assurance, configuration management, release management, and DevSecOps delivery practices. Strong understanding of Agile delivery frameworks and team facilitation practices, backlog refinement, sprint planning, capacity planning, and release planning, risk, issue, dependency, and impediment management, delivery metrics, dashboards, status reporting, stakeholder communications, testing coordination, release readiness, operational support, and continuous improvement. Experience using Agile and collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, or similar platforms. Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and conflict‑resolution skills with the ability to translate complex delivery information for executive, federal, technical, and non‑technical audiences. Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD “PUBLIC TRUST”; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred. Nice to Have Experience supporting federal grants management systems, shared service platforms, or large public‑facing government applications. Experience with Grants.gov, HHS, ACF, CMS, HRSA, NIH, or other federal grant‑making agencies. Knowledge of HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC), federal IT governance, ATO processes, security assessment activities, and compliance‑driven delivery environments. Experience with Grants.gov‑like capabilities: public‑facing web applications, applicant submissions, grantor user management, S2S integrations, forms processing, chatbot support, help‑desk escalations, or system status communications. Experience supporting cloud‑hosted applications, AWS environments, application platform security, certificate management, account management, logging, monitoring, backup validation, or disaster recovery planning. Experience supporting modernization, consolidation, transition‑in, or multi‑vendor integration initiatives involving multiple applications and stakeholder organizations. Relevant certifications or credentials: Security+, CISSP, CISM, CAP, CGRC, AWS Security Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect, ITIL, SAFe, DevSecOps, or other federally relevant certifications. Compensation The annual salary range for this position is $113,000.00 – $188,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Benefits Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays Parental Leave 401(k) Retirement Plan Group Term Life and Travel Assistance Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits Short‑Term & Long‑Term Disability Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities Employee Referral Program Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach Care.com Annual Membership Employee Assistance Program Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.) Discretionary variable incentive bonus may apply. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation. 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