Scrum Master

• Guides teams, leaders, and organizations in adopting and optimizing Agile practices
• Mentor and coach teams and leaders on Agile principles and practices
• Coach and develop colleagues to embed Agile ways of working
• Help teams identify and address impediments to Agile execution
• Use data and metrics to identify opportunities for improvement
• Collaborate with other Agile Coaches and contribute to a network of Agile champions
• Own the Agile coaching strategy to continually improve maturity levels

Agile Master Coach

• Facilitate Scrum events (Quarterly Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective, etc.) and ensure outcomes are clear and actionable.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to improve backlog readiness, requirement quality, prioritization, and acceptance criteria clarity at an organization level.
• Work with Product and Engineering Leads to support backlog refinement and readiness, ensuring work is clearly defined, appropriately scoped, and ready for development.
• Identify, escalate, and remove delivery impediments while coordinating cross-functional dependencies and resolving execution risks.
• Drive transparency, ownership, and accountability through delivery metrics, planning rigor, and effective cross-functional communication.
• Provide transparent, data-driven reporting on progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery forecasts to support informed decision-making and predictable outcomes.
• Coach teams to drive continuous improvement, optimize workflow efficiency, and drive predictable delivery.
• Coordinate cross-team planning and alignment on objectives, dependencies, deliverables, and release timelines.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration to proactively identify, manage, and resolve inter-team dependencies, enabling effective planning and successful execution of complex initiatives.
• Establish and maintain delivery metrics including cycle time, throughput, predictability, sprint health, and release performance.
• Proactively identify delivery risks, dependencies, and execution bottlenecks and drive mitigation plans.
• Coordinate release planning activities across Product, Engineering, QA, and other stakeholders.
• Continuously evaluate and improve software delivery processes to increase efficiency, predictability, and quality.

• Facilitate Agile Events: Organize and facilitate all agile events ensuring that the events are positive, productive, kept within the timebox and ensure teams follow the agile spirit and practice.
• Coaching and Mentoring: Mentor the team members and explain to them using the agile methods, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Team Development: Help teams identify and remove impediments, promoting self-organization and accountability.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with Product Owners & Managers and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on goals and priorities.
• Metrics and Reporting: Track and report on team performance metrics, using data to drive improvements and inform stakeholders.
• Conflict Resolution: Mediate conflicts within teams and between teams and stakeholders, ensuring a collaborative environment.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks and issues, facilitating discussions to develop mitigation strategies.

Senior Technical Project Manager – Scrum Master

• Lead Scrum Masters managing a portfolio of work across multiple Agile teams and delivery efforts
• Support a critical modernization initiative in service of EFTPS modernization and expanded delivery capability
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, team planning, and execution activities to promote predictable delivery and continuous improvement
• Partner with stakeholders, technology teams, and delivery leaders to manage dependencies, escalate risks, and remove blockers
• Provide senior-level Agile leadership in a Scrum Master Advisor II capacity for complex, billable program work

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