Scrum Master – Informatics

Aptive Resources

Scrum Master facilitating Agile delivery for VA health informatics teams supporting IHT 2.0 program. Collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to improve workflows and Veteran outcomes.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, demos, retrospectives, and related coordination meetings.
Help Agile teams follow Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values while aligning to SAFe Lean-Agile principles and IHP ART cadences.
Support Product Owners, Agilists, clinical informaticists, analysts, and SMEs in translating prioritized work into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, feature inputs, and sprint objectives.
Maintain accurate sprint documentation, team boards, dependencies, impediments, decisions, and progress updates in JIRA or the Government-designated sprint planning tool.
Track and communicate delivery progress, risks, blockers, dependencies, and retrospective findings to program leadership and Government stakeholders.
Promote transparency, team accountability, continuous improvement, and high-quality delivery across interdisciplinary health informatics teams.
Coordinate preparation for biweekly feature progress demonstrations and final feature demonstrations; ensure stakeholder feedback is captured and incorporated.
Support development of lean business cases, feature canvases, feature specifications, performance monitoring dashboards, and other IHP Agile artifacts as needed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, health informatics, healthcare administration, public health, or a related field.
5+ years of relevant experience supporting Agile, Scrum, program/project delivery, health IT, or federal consulting teams.
Experience facilitating Agile teams and promoting Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values.
Experience with SAFe Lean-Agile principles and practices, including delivery in complex team-of-teams environments.
Hands-on experience using JIRA or similar Agile lifecycle management tools for sprint planning, tracking, reporting, and documentation.
Strong facilitation, conflict resolution, stakeholder engagement, and written/oral communication skills.
Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.
Legal authorization to work in the U.S.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

ScrumAgileSAFe Lean-Agilesprint planninguser storiesacceptance criteriafeature specificationsperformance monitoringdocumentationhealth informatics

Soft Skills

facilitationconflict resolutionstakeholder engagementcommunicationteam accountabilitycontinuous improvementtransparency