Scrum Master

Pinnacle Method Consulting's mission is to help job seekers reach their career peak by accessing top-tier opportunities. We are not a staffing firm or agency. Pinnacle Method does not hire for these roles—we systematically source and verify them from premier employers. Type Of Requisition: Pipeline Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None Clearance Level Must Be Able To Obtain: None Public Trust/Other Required: MBI (T2) Job Family: Software Engineering Skills: Job Qualifications: Agile Methodology, Collaboration, Scrum Master Certifications: None Experience: 5 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: No Job Description: Own your opportunity to turn collaboration and Agile principles into measurable outcomes for our customers' most complex challenges. As a Scrum Master, 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, 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 multiple 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. WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED Bring your expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Scrum Master must have: Education: 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. Scrum Master certification required Required Experience : Education: Bachelor's Degree preferred; however, additional experience can be substituted for degree. Required Experience: 5+ years of Scrum Master/Agile facilitation (2+ years with multiple concurrent development teams. Minimum 8 years' experience in IT Required Technical Skills : 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. Ability to coach backlog readiness (thin vertical slices, clear acceptance criteria, limited WIP). Hold teams accountable to sizing activities to ensure project ends 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. The Scrum Master will heavily be using these skills: communication, leadership, organization, time management, budget management, risk management, problem-solving, adaptability, and teamwork. Effective at building strong business relationships across teams to ensure a positive customer experience and quality of software projects into Production. Strong written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to effectively work directly with customers, the executive leadership team, and technical staff. Effective liaison between business and technical teams. Strong facilitation skills to effectively lead discussions across multip #PinnacleMethodConsulting Show more Show less