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Scrum master
Marathon TS
- Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
About
Provide high energy Agile facilitation for 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 practice. Make the process engaging, value‑focused, and predictable.
Scope Guide multiple development teams to maintain clear sprint goals, manage cross‑team dependencies, and continuously improve delivery flow and team engagement.
Core Requirements
Minimum of eight years relevant experience.
Years Scrum Master/Agile facilitation, including years with multiple concurrent development teams.
Ability to quickly grasp business and technical requirements, understand or learn technical jargon and government acronyms, and produce communication for all levels of the organization.
Proficient with VersionOne / Agility (or comparable tool) for boards, dependencies, impediments, and lightweight roll‑up 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.
Ability to 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.
Key Responsibilities
Facilitate core Agile events and lightweight cross‑team syncs; maintain sprint goal clarity.
Make Agile "feel useful" through 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 / Client and tech leads on prioritization, slicing, and readiness.
Drive small improvement experiments per team per sprint; follow through to closure.
Foster psychological safety, inclusive participation, and sustainable pace.
Engagement / Culture
Use creative retros (rotating formats) and lightweight recognition of small wins.
Introduce tasteful micro‑gamification to energize without distracting.
Encourage rotating spokespeople and silent ideation rounds to amplify quieter voices.
Success Indicators
Sprint goals achieved without overtime spikes.
Declining trend in blocker aging and repeat impediments within first months.
Story/task carryover trending toward minimal values.
Percentage of committed retro experiments implemented on schedule.
Positive team pulse feedback on ceremony usefulness and energy.
Minimum Tool/Process Capability
VersionOne (boards, simple dashboards, dependency & impediment tracking).
Basic understanding of CI/CD flow.
Preferred (Not Mandatory)
CSM / PSM / A-PSM (higher certifications welcome but not required).
Experience with informal scaling practices (Scrum of Scrums, quarterly alignment).
Comfort with basic flow visuals (cycle time scatter, aging WIP snapshot).
Additional Required Skills/Experience
A minimum of eight to twelve years relevant experience.
A degree from an accredited college/university in the applicable field of services is required; if the degree is not in the applicable field, four additional years of related experience is required.
Typically performs all functional duties independently.
Special credentials (licenses and/or certifications) may be required at the Task Order level on a case‑specific basis.
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Languages
- English
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