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Canberra, Australia Posted on 10/11/2026
Under direction of the Commonwealth, undertake the following duties:
- Facilitate Agile delivery practices across the SPARO product team, ensuring effective execution of Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
- Provide guidance on Scrum practices and support to continuous initiatives for SPARO team members and broader stakeholders in Agile principles, Scrum practices and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Support the planning and delivery of product roadmaps, releases and capability increments aligned with Defence priorities.
- Identify and remove impediments affecting team productivity, quality and delivery outcomes.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Coordinate delivery activities across software engineering, data engineering, business analysis, testing and architecture functions.
- Manage inter-team dependencies, delivery risks, issues and constraints impacting roadmap execution.
- Support release planning and prioritisation activities to ensure delivery objectives are achieved within agreed timeframes.
- Monitor progress against sprint and release commitments and provide delivery reporting to stakeholders.
- Support governance activities through the preparation of delivery metrics, status reporting and risk assessments.
The Scrum Master will work across all three workstreams:
- Application Sustainment and Feature Enhancement
- Data Migration and Integration
- Cyber Security Uplift
- Delivery of decision support roadmap commitments and objectives.
- Enablement of high-performing Agile teams with measurable improvements in velocity, predictability and quality.
- Effective management of delivery risks, dependencies and stakeholder expectations.
- Contribution to successful delivery of workstreams.
Minimum 6 years of demonstrated experience with regard to:
- Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Manager or similar Agile delivery leadership roles.
- Leading Agile delivery teams in software development, data engineering or digital transformation environments.
- Facilitating Scrum ceremonies, Agile planning and continuous improvement activities.
- Managing delivery risks, dependencies and stakeholder expectations.
- Supporting multidisciplinary teams comprising software engineers, data engineers, analysts and architects.
- Delivery of complex ICT capabilities in an Agile or DevSecOps environment.
- Producing delivery metrics, dashboards and performance reporting.
- Building collaborative relationships with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience with SAP ERP implementation, migration or integration programs.
- Experience delivering data migration, analytics, business intelligence or enterprise data platform initiatives.
- Understanding of logistics planning, sustainment, supply chain, inventory management or Defence decision-support environments.
- Experience supporting Data Mesh, enterprise data services or modern data platform implementations.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and test automation frameworks.
- Experience within Defence, Government or large-scale enterprise environments.
- Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM or equivalent Agile accreditation) or experience with delivery in the Scaled Agile Framework.
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