OverviewScrum Master
Springfield, VA or Herndon, VA
Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and CI poly
Responsibilities
What you get to do every day:
- Serve as dedicated Scrum Master for one or more agile teams, facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Manage and maintain the team backlog, ensuring tickets are well-groomed, properly prioritized, and clearly defined with acceptance criteria
- Track and report sprint velocity, burndown, and other agile metrics; identify and remove blockers to keep delivery on track
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies and communication across multiple workstreams within the program
- Contribute to engineering tasks (e.g., infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipeline updates, or light development work) as capacity allows between scrum duties
Qualifications
Clearance Required: Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and CI Poly
Education/Experience:
- Requires Bachelor's degree
- 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach, with demonstrated ability to lead agile ceremonies and manage backlogs in Jira or similar tools
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree or above in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) or equivalent professional experience
- Familiarity with software development practices (source control, CI/CD, code reviews) sufficient to understand team work and remove technical blockers
- Strong communication and organizational skills with experience managing competing priorities across multiple teams
- Experience with Orange customer preferred
- Must be willing to work in SCIF at AWS Herndon or Springfield, VA Site up to 100% of each week
What is ideal?
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent agile certification
- Experience working on multi-team, cross-disciplinary programs in a classified environment
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS), Infrastructure as Code, or DevOps tooling
- Familiarity with AI/ML or geospatial project workflows
- Experience applying agile metrics and data-driven approaches to improve team performance
- Experience with Python, scripting, or light development work to support automation or tooling needs
- Intelligence Community Experience preferred
What you can expect from us
- Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by bcore through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses
- You’ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community
- The expected salary range within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $150,000-$200,000. Final compensation is unique to each individual and will be determined based on factors such as experience, education, geographic location, and contractual requirements. This is not a guarantee.
- Benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k), Paid Time Off, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more.
