Company: AMS Technologies, LLC
Location: San Antonio, TX
Work Arrangement: On-site
Employment Type: Full-time
Clearance Required: Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI
U.S. Citizenship: Required
Position OverviewAMS Technologies is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to lead the daily execution of an Agile software development team supporting mission-critical systems in a Department of Defense environment.
This is a hands-on leadership position that combines Scrum Master responsibilities with an understanding of full-stack software development. The successful candidate will facilitate Agile ceremonies, coach team members, remove delivery obstacles, maintain the team's Scrum board, and help ensure work is clearly defined and completed on schedule.
The Scrum Master will work closely with product owners, developers, testers, technical leads, and program stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a servant leader who can improve team performance, encourage accountability, and protect the team from scope creep and unrealistic commitments.
Primary Responsibilities- Lead the daily execution of an Agile software development team of up to nine employees.
- Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning sessions, backlog refinement meetings, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Help define, document, prioritize, and track epics, user stories, tasks, defects, and acceptance criteria.
- Partner with product owners and technical stakeholders to ensure requirements are clear, actionable, and properly prioritized.
- Protect the team from overcommitment, unnecessary interruptions, and scope creep during each sprint.
- Support story estimation, capacity planning, task development, and sprint forecasting.
- Identify and remove external blockers while helping the team resolve internal roadblocks through communication and process improvement.
- Capture feedback and action items from retrospectives and ensure agreed-upon improvements are implemented.
- Administer and maintain the team's Scrum board, ensuring work items and project information remain accurate and current.
- Monitor sprint progress, team velocity, backlog health, and other Agile performance indicators.
- Assist product owners with collecting and presenting metrics used to communicate project status, risks, and delivery forecasts.
- Meet individually with team members and stakeholders as needed to resolve concerns, clarify expectations, and improve collaboration.
- Coach team members on Agile principles, Scrum practices, team accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Help resolve disagreements involving team processes, priorities, responsibilities, and working styles.
- Promote open communication and effective coordination across development, testing, cybersecurity, operations, and product teams.
- Support the design and development of scalable software applications.
- Participate in front-end and back-end development activities as needed.
- Write clean, functional, and maintainable code.
- Develop effective application programming interfaces (APIs).
- Create use cases and support unit, functional, and integration testing.
- Troubleshoot defects, resolve coding issues, and assist with software upgrades.
- Support the implementation of application security and data-protection controls.
- Help develop responsive applications that support desktop and mobile devices.
- Create and maintain technical, process, and project documentation.
- Perform other duties necessary to support program and mission requirements.
Minimum Qualifications- Bachelor's degree and 12-15 years of relevant professional experience, or a master's degree and 10-13 years of relevant experience. Additional applicable experience may be considered in place of a degree.
- At least two years of experience serving as a Scrum Master or leading an Agile software development team.
- Demonstrated experience with Agile methodologies, software development lifecycle management, and cross-functional technical teams.
- Experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies and managing sprint activities in a software development environment.
- Experience using at least two of the following collaboration and project-management tools:
- Experience with at least two of the following technologies:
- React
- Angular
- Python
- JavaScript
- CSS
- HTML
- Familiarity with modern software development, DevSecOps, cloud, containerization, automation, or data-processing technologies.
- Strong organizational, facilitation, coaching, conflict-resolution, and written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and communicate effectively with technical personnel, product owners, program leadership, and government stakeholders.
- Ability to supervise or lead a team of up to nine people.
- Must possess an active Secret security clearance.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.
- Must meet DoD 8140 Cyber Workforce Framework requirements for Work Role 802, IT Project Manager.
- Must be a U.S. citizen due to contract and security-clearance requirements.
Certification RequirementsCandidates should possess an approved certification appropriate to the position. Preferred certifications include:
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA SecurityX, formerly CASP+
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Preferred Qualifications- Active TS/SCI security clearance.
- Relevant Department of Defense or federal contracting experience.
- SAFe Scrum Master certification.
- SAFe for Teams certification.
- SAFe Advanced Scrum Master certification.
- Experience working in a DevSecOps or mission-critical software development environment.
- Familiarity with several of the following technologies:
- Apache Spark
- Kubernetes
- Kafka
- Ansible
- Docker
- Git
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- SIMP
- Suricata
- Zeek
- Kibana
- Logstash
- Elasticsearch
- Neo4j
- PostgreSQL
- AWS Cloud
- Apache NiFi
What We're Looking ForWe are looking for someone who understands that a Scrum Master does more than schedule meetings. The right person will build trust, improve communication, hold the team accountable, and create an environment where people can consistently deliver high-quality work. This individual should be equally comfortable discussing sprint performance with leadership, coaching a team member, resolving a blocker, and collaborating with developers on technical delivery.
