Scrum Master

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a skilled Scrum Master to assist with a classified project in support of the DHA based out Falls Church, VA, 5 days onsite.

The Scrum Master ensures teams follow structured Agile ceremonies, uphold quality standards, and adhere to DHA approved governance, reporting, and documentation practices. This role is responsible for driving transparency, fostering team cohesion, and ensuring aligned execution across all SOW objectives, supporting Government stakeholders, technical teams, data specialists, and project leadership.

What You'll Do

• Lead Agile ceremonies for in-person and virtual environments-including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives-ensuring they are structured, documented, and value driven.
• Remove impediments and distractions for remote team members by coordinating with Government stakeholders, domain owners, system contacts, and SMEs to resolve blockers quickly.
• Promote collaboration practices that ensure engagement and equal participation across distributed team members.
• Maintain project schedules using DHA approved project management tools, tracking dependencies and milestones across all SOW objectives and team workstreams.
• Monitor velocity, sprint commitments, and deliverable timelines, escalating risks or delays and ensuring remote teams stay aligned with Government expectations.
• Ensure teams follow Agile best practices that reinforce quality, documentation completeness, auditability, and compliance with DHA/DOW/NIST standards across deliverables.
• Support virtual QA processes for metadata validation, repository configuration, lineage documentation, and catalog related outputs.
• Track defects, resolution steps, and quality related risks in remote collaboration environments.
• Serve as a key facilitator between cross functional teams and Government stakeholders by coordinating structured engagements, clarifying decisions, and documenting outcomes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Agile facilitator supporting technical or data focused delivery teams.
• Demonstrated success supporting remote Agile teams, ensuring engagement, alignment, and consistency across distributed environments.
• Experience working on federal or highly structured programs with governance, documentation, and quality requirements.
• Strong conflict resolution, facilitation, and communication skills in virtual settings.
• Proficiency using friendly Agile tools such as Jira or DHA approved equivalents.
• Eligibility for security clearance; active DoD security clearance preferred.

Desired Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Data Management, or related field.
• Experience with data governance, metadata standards, lineage activities, or catalog aligned workstreams.
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), or PMIACP.
• Agile certifications (Scrum, SAFe, Agile PM).

Salary

• $95,000 - $110,000 + Benefits

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