Job Title: Scrum Master/Agile Delivery Facilitator

Location: 100% REMOTE

Salary/Payrate: $79K-$154K W2 annually or 1099 hourly rate of $34-$95/HR.

Work Environment: Remote

Term:  Contract with possible opportunity of conversion after 6-months

Bachelor’s degree required: No

Referral Fee: AMS will pay $500 should the person you refer gets hired

JOB DESCRIPTION

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Our federal client is looking to hire a Scrum Master/Agile Delivery Facilitator for a 100% REMOTE role. Please send your resume in WORD format should you be interested in exploring this role. The position is on a contract to hire basis and will pay an hourly rate of $34/HR to $95/HR 1099, dependent on experience. We also offer the option of a W2 annual salary of $79K to $154K, with full benefits and PTO.

***Due to the required clearance with our government client, only US Citizens, Green Card and Green Card EAD holders may be considered. Clearance requires that the candidates have resided in the US for the past five years. The selected candidate cannot have left the country for longer than 90 consecutive days and no more than 180 cumulative days***

Core Requirements:

• 5+ years Scrum Master / Agile facilitation (2+ years with multiple concurrent development teams).
• 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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 leads 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.

Engagement / Culture:

• Uses creative retros (rotating formats) and lightweight recognition of small wins.
• Introduces tasteful micro-gamification (e.g., blocker bust streaks) to energize without distracting.
• Encourages rotating spokespeople and silent ideation rounds to amplify quieter voices.

Success Indicators:

• Sprint goals achieved ≥80–85% without overtime spikes.
• Declining trend in blocker aging and repeat impediments within first 2–3 months.
• Story/task carryover trending toward <15%.
• ≥70–80% of committed retro experiments implemented on schedule.
• Positive team pulse feedback on ceremony usefulness / energy.

Minimum Tool/Process Capability:

• VersionOne (boards, simple dashboards, dependency & impediment tracking).
• Basic understanding of CI/CD flow.

Preferred (Not Mandatory):

• CSM / PSM / A-CSM (higher certifications welcome but not required).
• Experience with informal scaling practices (Scrum of Scrums, quarterly alignment).
• Comfort with basic flow visuals (cycle time scatter, aging WIP snapshot).