Scrum Master

Role: Scrum Master (SM)

DMI is seeking a Scrum Master to support day-to-day Agile execution for delivery teams. You will facilitate Scrum ceremonies, maintain backlog health and delivery flow, and ensure audit-ready traceability from strategic objectives through production releases using Azure DevOps (ADO).

Responsibilities

Agile execution & facilitation

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Create sprint artifacts: sprint goals, capacity forecasts, review notes, and retrospective action plans
• Track and escalate delivery risks and impediments that impact sprint goals

Azure DevOps configuration & audit-ready evidence

• Configure and maintain ADO structures: epics, features, user stories, tasks, states, and acceptance criteria
• Maintain traceability chain: Epics → Features → Stories → Tasks → PRs → Pipelines → Releases
• Ensure compliance with Definition of Done, including testing evidence, documentation updates, and product owner approvals
• Maintain ADO dashboards/reports for burndown, velocity, throughput, flow efficiency, and capacity tracking

Backlog, quality, and flow management

• Maintain backlog health (e.g., readiness, aging, estimation stability, story quality metrics)
• Lead backlog refinement, ensuring stories include architectural, data, security, and governance requirements
• Identify systemic bottlenecks affecting predictability and quality

Impediment & cross-team coordination

• Keep a structured impediment log (by type, severity, and resolution status)
• Coordinate with architecture, data, security, infrastructure, and governance teams to remove blockers
• Escalate unresolved impediments via defined state escalation paths

Release & DevOps alignment

• Produce release notes with versions, included stories, executed pipelines, validation status, and known issues
• Ensure pipeline-to-work-item traceability and production readiness checklist compliance
• Support coordinated production releases aligned with PM-managed milestones

Coaching & Agile maturity

• Conduct team maturity assessments (predictability, quality, collaboration, continuous improvement)
• Develop and track improvement roadmaps to strengthen Agile execution over time

Requirements

• Scrum Master certification (required)
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps in regulated or audit-sensitive environments
• Deep understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery, DevOps integration, and value-stream management
• Ability to produce audit-ready Agile artifacts and delivery evidence
• Excellent facilitation/coaching and cross-team coordination skills

Location / Work model

• Remote (US)