We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to join a large scale Federal Government digital transformation program delivering critical services to Australians. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a high performing Agile environment, supporting multidisciplinary delivery teams to build and enhance customer focused digital solutions.
The successful candidate will play a key role in facilitating Agile practices, removing delivery impediments, and empowering teams to deliver high quality outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including stand ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives
- Coach and mentor teams in Agile values, principles and best practices
- Build team capability through ongoing guidance and continuous improvement initiatives
- Assist Product Owners in backlog refinement and prioritisation activities
- Identify, manage and remove delivery blockers and impediments
- Protect teams from external disruptions that impact delivery outcomes
- Foster a culture of trust, collaboration and accountability
- Support teams to become self organising and high performing
- Manage stakeholder engagement and communication activities
- Coordinate with cross functional teams to manage dependencies and delivery risks
- Support onboarding of current team members
- Drive improvements in team performance, Agile maturity and delivery effectiveness
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Extensive commercial experience working as a Scrum Master within Agile delivery environments
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate Agile teams and ceremonies
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Experience coaching teams on Agile methodologies and frameworks
- Proven ability to identify and resolve impediments affecting delivery
- Experience leading continuous improvement and organisational change initiatives
- Strong understanding of Agile delivery tools, processes and metrics
Desirable
- Experience working within Federal or State Government environments
- Experience supporting large scale digital transformation programs
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle practices
- Experience mentoring and supporting team capability development
- Initial contract: 12 months
- Extension options available up to 24 months
- Start date: October 2026
- Location: Adelaide, SA
- Working arrangement: Hybrid
- Full time onsite attendance required for the first 6 weeks, with hybrid arrangements considered thereafter
- Must hold a Baseline Security Clearance
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