
Scrum Master
PhoenixTeam
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Virginia • United States
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Salary
💰 $70,000 - $100,000 per year
About the role
- Serve as Scrum Master for the VA LGY Analytics Team supporting dashboards, executive reporting, performance metrics, and data insights initiatives.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement sessions with strong stakeholder participation.
- Ensure business priorities are clearly reflected in sprint goals and team commitments.
- Coach team members and stakeholders on Agile principles, emphasizing incremental delivery of business value.
- Promote alignment between analytics outputs and VA LGY strategic objectives.
- Serve as a liaison between analytics team members, VA LGY business users, program leadership, and VA OIT.
- Support Product Owners in translating business reporting needs into well-defined user stories with clear acceptance criteria and measurable outcomes.
- Ensure transparency of sprint progress, risks, and dependencies affecting reporting and dashboard deliverables.
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies impacting data availability, reporting timelines, and executive deliverables.
- Facilitate demonstrations of dashboards, reports, and analytics enhancements to business stakeholders and leadership.
- Track and report Agile performance metrics such as velocity, sprint burndown, throughput, and capacity to support predictable delivery of analytics products.
- Monitor delivery performance against reporting deadlines and program milestones.
- Lead retrospectives focused on improving collaboration between business stakeholders and analytics teams.
- Encourage continuous improvement in requirements clarity, backlog prioritization, and stakeholder engagement.
- Ensure analytics deliverables align with VA governance, documentation standards, data security, and compliance requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Data Analytics, Business, Public Administration, Engineering, or a related field and 3+ years of relevant experience; OR Associate’s degree and 5+ years of relevant experience; OR High School diploma and 7+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience working closely with business stakeholders in reporting, analytics, or data-driven initiatives.
- Strong understanding of Agile frameworks including Scrum and Kanban.
- Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies with cross-functional teams and business participants.
- Experience using Agile lifecycle management tools (e.g., Jira).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with executive and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work effectively in a remote, distributed team environment.
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
AgileScrumKanbandata analyticsreportinguser storiesacceptance criteriaperformance metricssprint planningbacklog refinement
Soft Skills
communicationcoachingstakeholder engagementcollaborationcontinuous improvementfacilitationtransparencyleadershiporganizational skillsproblem-solving