Scrum Master

Description & Requirements

Maximus is seeking a Scrum Master to facilitate releases and work with the other teams to coordinate pre and post release activities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee the full lifecycle development and implementation program and technical activities to ensure successful project execution and meeting of requirements.
- Perform all project management functions; including work breakdown and cost estimation, scheduling, monitoring and tracking of technical progress against the defined timetables and budgets, and staff assignment and development.
- Lead and direct the successful delivery of infrastructure design, systems integration, and product installation/customization services while ensuring that assigned projects adhere to the approved life cycle work patterns, standards, and procedures for solution delivery.
- Supervise and manage all technical support staff.
- Manage activities of subcontractors utilized to deliver the technical solution.
- Define and implement development plans for assigned projects in order to increase staff's knowledge and skills in the areas of project management, requirements management, and technology capabilities.
- Communicate possible State systems maintenance issues to DPW.
- Ensure availability of system applications for MAXIMUS and state staff.
- Maintain the LAN, Intranet and phone systems, including any applicable software and hardware.
- Responsible for network security and privacy of protected health information and proprietary information belonging to MAXMUS or DPW.
- Develop and generate management reports and other ad hoc reports, as needed.
- Interpret reports to identify emerging trends or issues.
- Review any problems reported by MAXIMUS or state staff regarding system hardware or software.
- Develop and/or maintain various internal MAXIMUS databases.
- Identify and assess new functional capabilities supporting engineering change proposals and additional follow on work.
- Ensure the project is in compliance with MAXIMUS standards and procedures.
- Ensure that all appropriate costs are included in quarterly forecasts.
- Perform other duties as assigned by leadership.

Project Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

- Facilitate requirements gathering workshops, stakeholder meetings, and user story writing sessions to capture business needs and priorities.

- Translate business requirements into clear and concise user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint backlog items.

- Collaborate with development teams to ensure alignment between business needs and technical solutions.

- Serve as a scrum master for agile development teams, facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

- Monitor project progress, identify, and mitigate risks, and communicate project status to stakeholders.

- Maintain project documentation, including user stories, sprint backlogs, release plans, and sprint burndown charts.

- Coordinate user acceptan...