Scrum Master

General Dynamics Information Technology•USA MD Home Office (MDHOME), MD

6d•$93,500 - $126,500•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.
5+ years of Scrum Master/Agile facilitation (2+ years with multiple concurrent development teams.
Minimum 8 years’ experience in IT
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.
Communication skills
Leadership skills
Organization skills
Time management skills
Budget management skills
Risk management skills
Problem-solving skills
Adaptability skills
Teamwork skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to effectively work directly with customers, the executive leadership team, and technical staff.

Nice To Haves

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)

Responsibilities

Guide multiple development teams to maintain clear sprint goals.
Manage cross-team dependencies.
Continuously improve delivery flow and team engagement.
Provide high energy Agile facilitation for 3-5 cross-functional development teams.
Conduct scrum ceremonies and teach Agile best practices.
Make the process engaging, value-focused and predictable.
Coach backlog readiness (thin vertical slices, clear acceptance criteria, limited WIP).
Hold teams accountable to sizing activities to ensure project end 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.
Build strong business relationships across teams to ensure a positive customer experience and quality of software projects into Production.
Act as an effective liaison between business and technical teams.
Use strong facilitation skills to effectively lead discussions across multiple groups.

Benefits

Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
Dental plan options
Vision plan
401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
Full flex work weeks where possible
Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
10 paid holidays per year
Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
Short and long-term disability benefits
Life insurance
Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
Personal accident insurance
Critical illness insurance
Business travel and accident insurance