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This role facilitates effective Scrum events, coaches team members in Agile practices, removes impediments, promotes transparency, and helps the team continuously improve its delivery of high-quality outcomes. The individual will collaborate with Product Owners, technical leads, Federal stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional delivery teams while operating with guidance from program and Agile leadership.\nWhat You Will Do:\nWe are seeking a collaborative Mid-Level Scrum Master to help Agile teams plan, execute, and improve delivery across a complex federal technology environment. The Scrum Master will create productive team routines, reinforce Agile values and Scrum practices, maintain visibility into progress and risks, and help resolve blockers that affect sprint goals.\nThis is a hands-on facilitation and coaching role suited for a professional who can independently support a delivery team while escalating broader organizational issues when needed. The individual will work closely with the Product Owner to promote backlog readiness, coordinate dependencies, use delivery metrics appropriately, and foster a respectful, self-managing, and continuously improving team environment.\nFacilitate Scrum events, including sprint planning, daily Scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions.\n\nCoach team members on Agile values, Scrum practices, self-management, collaboration, and continuous improvement.\n\nPartner with the Product Owner to support clear sprint goals, a transparent and prioritized backlog, and well-understood backlog items.\n\nIdentify, track, and help remove impediments; escalate issues that require program, stakeholder, or organizational action.\n\nProtect the team from unnecessary disruption while promoting productive engagement with stakeholders and dependent teams.\n\nMonitor sprint progress, delivery trends, risks, dependencies, and team health using practical Agile metrics and visual management tools.\n\nFacilitate conversations that resolve conflict, clarify expectations, and strengthen collaboration across business and technical participants.\n\nCoordinate cross-team dependencies and support release planning, demonstrations, testing readiness, and incremental delivery activities.\n\nHelp the team maintain agreed working practices, quality expectations, and a clear Definition of Done.\n\nPromote data-informed retrospectives and follow through on measurable improvement actions.\n\nMaintain concise delivery artifacts, including team boards, impediment and risk logs, dependency tracking, action items, and stakeholder updates.\n\nEnsure Agile delivery activities and team artifacts align with applicable federal IT governance requirements, including the HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC), required reviews, deliverables, approvals, and stage-gate expectations.\n\nSupport Agile adoption and consistent delivery practices across a multi-team, multi-vendor federal program.\n\nWhat You Will Need:\nMust be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; candidates must receive approved adjudication before onboarding. An active Public Trust or suitability determination is preferred.\n\nBachelor’s degree required.\n\nMinimum of four (4) years of experience supporting Agile software development, technology delivery, or IT modernization teams, including at least two (2) years serving as a Scrum Master or Agile team facilitator.\n\nWorking knowledge of Scrum events, accountabilities, artifacts, commitments, and empirical delivery practices.\n\nDemonstrated experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and helping teams address impediments, dependencies, delivery risks, and improvement opportunities.\n\nAbility to coach team members constructively without directing or assigning their work.\n\nExperience partnering with Product Owners on sprint goals, backlog refinement, readiness, and stakeholder collaboration.\n\nUnderstanding of the software development life cycle, iterative delivery, testing, release coordination, and DevSecOps concepts.\n\nWorking knowledge of federal IT governance and project life-cycle controls, including the ability to support compliance with HHS EPLC documentation, review, approval, and stage-gate requirements.\n\nAbility to track and communicate delivery metrics, risks, dependencies, decisions, and action items clearly.\n\nStrong facilitation, communication, conflict-resolution, organizational, and problem-solving skills.\n\nAbility to collaborate effectively with business, technical, operational, vendor, and government stakeholders.\n\nAdaptable, team-oriented, and able to work effectively in a fast-paced, regulated environment with moderate supervision.\n\nProficiency with Agile delivery and collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.\n\nWhat Would Be Nice To Have:\nCertified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I), SAFe Scrum Master, or comparable Agile certification.\n\nExperience supporting federal or government IT programs.\n\nExperience with platform modernization, cloud delivery, DevSecOps, APIs, shared services, or legacy system transition efforts.\n\nExperience facilitating distributed, cross-functional, or multi-vendor teams.\n\nFamiliarity with scaled Agile planning, cross-team dependency management, release coordination, and program-level ceremonies.\n\nExperience using flow, predictability, quality, and team-health measures to support continuous improvement.\n\nUnderstanding of change management and organizational readiness principles.\n\n What We Offer:\nGuidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.\nBenefits include:\nMedical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance\n\nPersonal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays\n\nParental Leave\n\n401(k) Retirement Plan\n\nGroup Term Life and Travel Assistance\n\nVoluntary Life and AD&D Insurance\n\nHealth Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts\n\nTransit and Parking Commuter Benefits\n\nShort-Term & Long-Term Disability\n\nTuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities\n\nEmployee Referral Program\n\nCorporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach\n\nCare.com annual membership\n\nEmployee Assistance Program\n\nSupplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)\n\nPosition may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus\n\nAbout Guidehouse\nGuidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer-Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.\nGuidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.\nIf you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.\nAll communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or . Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.\nIf any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact . Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant’s dealings with unauthorized third parties.\nGuidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. 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