Scrum Master

LMI is seeking a Scrum Master to support Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) digital modernization and technology delivery initiatives. This full-time role provides hands‑on Agile delivery leadership across multiple concurrent Scrum teams, helping multidisciplinary teams plan, execute, inspect, and improve work while maintaining clear visibility into commitments, dependencies, risks, and outcomes.

The Scrum Master IV will manage multiple Jira boards, facilitate core Scrum ceremonies, support backlog readiness, coordinate cross‑team dependencies, remove impediments, and use delivery metrics to improve predictability and flow. The role partners closely with Product Owners, technical leads, designers, analysts, engineers, QA resources, and program leadership while preserving clear ownership of product, technical, and delivery decisions.

The successful candidate must operate beyond a single‑team Scrum Master model. This individual should be comfortable balancing several teams, facilitating Scrum‑of‑Scrums and other cross‑team coordination, improving Jira and Agile discipline, coaching teams toward greater self‑management, and distinguishing team‑level impediments from program‑level dependencies. Strong facilitation, judgment, and data‑informed delivery management are essential.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial‑grade platforms and mission‑ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission‑ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

Serve as Scrum Master for multiple concurrent Scrum teams, adapting facilitation and coaching to each team's maturity, work type, composition, and mission priorities.

Plan and facilitate sprint planning, daily Scrums, backlog refinement, sprint reviews/demos, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies; keep sessions focused, decision‑oriented, and appropriately time‑boxed.

Own the day‑to‑day health of multiple Jira boards, including workflows, issue hygiene, sprint setup, statuses, dependencies, labels/components, dashboards, filters, and reporting views.

Partner with Product Owners to maintain prioritized, actionable backlogs with clear acceptance criteria, dependencies, sequencing, and readiness for upcoming sprints.

Track commitments, sprint progress, blockers, carryover, scope movement, defects, and delivery risks; surface material issues early and facilitate resolution or escalation.

Coordinate dependencies across Scrum teams and shared resources such as engineering, data, architecture, UX/HCD, QA, security, platform, and other delivery functions.

Facilitate Scrum‑of‑Scrums, cross‑team planning, dependency reviews, and release‑readiness discussions when work spans several teams or shared milestones.

Use delivery measures such as velocity, throughput, cycle time, lead time, work in progress, burndown/burnup, aging work, and carryover to identify trends and support continuous improvement.

Coach teams on Scrum values, self‑management, estimation, work decomposition, sustainable delivery, definition of ready/done, and effective retrospectives without becoming the team's task manager.

Coach Product Owners and stakeholders on backlog quality,…