Agile Process SME; Scrum Master - Contingent

About Aretum

Aretum is a mission-driven organization committed to delivering innovative, technology-enabled solutions to our customers across defense, civilian, and homeland security sectors. Our teams work at the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation, helping agencies solve their most critical challenges. We believe in investing in our people and creating a culture where collaboration, inclusion, and professional growth are at the forefront.

Aretum is seeking an Agile Process SME (Scrum Master) to join our team supporting a large-scale federal technology modernization program. As a team-level Scrum Master, you will be fully embedded within a single Agile development team inside a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agile Release Train, performing the traditional activities associated with Agile SAFe methodologies. You will coordinate, oversee, and manage all standard Scrum ceremonies for your team, document ceremony outputs, keep team metrics and status current without disrupting delivery, identify and remove impediments, and partner with the team's federal Product Owner on backlog refinement and roadmap maintenance.

You will coach your team on SAFe practices, collaborate with the senior program-level Scrum Master and the other team-level Scrum Masters across the Agile Release Train, and work closely with the Solution Architect, UX, Accessibility and QA leads to align sprint goals. This role is scoped to standard Scrum Master services, it does not include Business Analyst services.

Due to the nature of our work as a federal consulting organization, employees may be expected to handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and must adhere to applicable safeguarding and compliance requirements.

Public Trust Eligibility Required. This is a contingent position, meaning employment is dependent upon the successful award of the associated contract to Aretum and completion of any required background investigation or security clearance verification.

• Perform the traditional activities associated with Agile SAFe methodologies at the team level, embedded fully within a single Agile development team
• Coordinate, oversee, and manage the standard Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement) and document the outputs of each ceremony clearly and consistently
• Identify, surface, and drive resolution of team-level impediments, escalating to the senior Scrum Master, the federal Release Train Engineer, or program leadership when impediments cannot be resolved within the team
• Support the team's participation in Program Increment (PI) Planning, including preparing the team's backlog for PI planning, facilitating team-level PI planning sessions, and documenting PI objectives, dependencies, and commitments
• Partner with the federal Product Owner and the engineering team to maintain the 24-month roadmap for the team's Epic area, surfacing technical items and level‑of‑effort estimates alongside Product‑Owner‑driven priorities
• Facilitate Sprint Planning to ensure stories are well understood, properly sized, and aligned to sprint goals; facilitate Retrospectives that produce concrete, tracked improvement actions
• Embed an Agile culture on the team using techniques drawn from a wide range of Agile and Lean methodologies and frameworks, remaining methodology‑aware rather than prescriptive
• Coach team members, the federal Product Owner, and adjacent stakeholders on team roles, behaviors, structure and culture, Agile ceremonies and practices, and knowledge transfer
• Equip engineers and leads on the team with the skills and techniques to coach one another, supporting a self‑organizing, continuously improving team
• Maintain team‑level Agile metrics (velocity, commitment reliability, flow, defect rates) and keep project and team status accurate and current so that any stakeholder can find out where the team stands without disrupting delivery
• Contribute to weekly status reporting, including accomplishments, planned work, associated ticket numbers, and risks and issues with proposed solutions
• Coordinate with the senior program‑level Scrum Master…