Senior Scrum Master – Medicaid, CHIP

A1M Solutions

Senior Scrum Master facilitating agile delivery across cross-functional teams for government health programs. Responsible for coaching teams and ensuring quality delivery practices.

Posted 5/19/2026contractRemote • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $55 - $70 per hourWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Facilitate agile ceremonies and support iterative delivery across a cross-functional product team
Partner with product and business stakeholders to maintain a healthy, prioritized, and well-defined backlog
Coach teams toward sustainable agile and DevSecOps delivery practices
Identify and help remove blockers, risks, and dependencies impacting delivery
Use team metrics and retrospectives to support continuous improvement
Collaborate with engineering and security partners to ensure quality and compliance expectations are incorporated into delivery processes
Support sprint planning and help teams balance planned and unplanned work
Facilitate release planning and coordination across teams and stakeholders
Promote transparency through clear documentation, communication, and use of shared delivery tools
Support outcome-oriented planning and continuous learning across the team
Coach team members and stakeholders on agile principles, collaboration, and effective ways of working
Coordinate with adjacent teams and partners on shared work and dependencies
Support knowledge sharing, onboarding, and transition activities as needed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8 years of relevant professional experience.
Prior experience working in government (local, state, or federal)
Familiarity with federal government delivery concerns such as ATO, FedRAMP, and PIAs
Experience supporting agile delivery within regulated, compliance-driven, or enterprise environments
Familiarity with agile delivery and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, roadmap planning tools, and modern collaboration platforms
Experience working with cross-functional software delivery teams that incorporate DevSecOps, user experience, quality engineering, accessibility, or security practices
Experience facilitating delivery coordination across teams with shared systems, integrations, or external dependencies.
Must have legal authorization to work within the US and not require ongoing visa sponsorship to maintain legal authorization to work.
Independent Contractors must have been residents in the United States for 3 of the past 5 years.

Benefits

Comp & perks

This is a 1099 independent contractor role. Contractor is responsible for their own taxes and benefits.

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Hard Skills & Tools

agile deliveryDevSecOpssprint planningcontinuous improvementdelivery coordinationquality engineeringaccessibility practicesrisk managementbacklog managementmetrics analysis

Soft Skills

coachingcollaborationcommunicationfacilitationtransparencyproblem-solvingorganizational skillsstakeholder managementknowledge sharingteamwork