Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent experience.
3-7 years in Agile software development or engineering environments.
Proven experience as a Scrum Master for software or systems engineering teams.
Strong knowledge of Scrum, Agile, and Lean methodologies.
Experience using Agile project-management tools like JIRA or Confluence.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to obtain and maintain required security clearance.
Responsibilities
Serve as Scrum Master for Agile development teams.
Facilitate all Agile ceremonies including Scrum meetings and retrospectives.
Coach team members and stakeholders on Agile practices.
Identify and resolve team impediments and blockers.
Maintain prioritized and actionable product backlogs with Product Owners.
Monitor team capacity and sprint progress using Agile metrics.
Promote engineering best practices and drive continuous improvement.
Benefits
Opportunity to work in a dynamic Agile environment.
Chance to coach and develop high-performing teams.
Involvement in impactful defense projects.
Access to cutting-edge technologies and engineering practices.
Collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
Full Job Description
Davidson is seeking a Scrum Master in Colorado Springs, CO.
Job Responsibilities
Serve as the Scrum Master for one or more cross-functional Agile development teams.
Facilitate daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint reviews/demos, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and other Agile ceremonies.
Coach team members, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Scrum principles, Agile practices, and continuous improvement.
Promote self-organization, accountability, transparency, and collaboration within Agile teams.
Identify, track, and remove team impediments and blockers.
Escalate issues that cannot be resolved at the team level and coordinate with program leadership as necessary.
Work closely with Product Owners to maintain healthy, prioritized, and actionable product backlogs.
Help teams develop realistic sprint goals, commitments, and delivery plans.
Monitor sprint progress, team capacity, velocity, burn-up/burn-down trends, and other relevant Agile metrics.
Identify delivery risks and work with technical and program leadership to develop mitigation strategies.
Coordinate dependencies between software, systems engineering, modeling and simulation, integration, and test teams.
Facilitate communication between development teams and external stakeholders.
Support planning and execution across multiple Agile teams when program-level coordination is required.
Maintain Agile boards, dashboards, metrics, and program documentation using tools such as Gitlab, JIRA and Confluence.
Ensure sprint and release information is accurately communicated to stakeholders.
Support release planning, increment planning, and coordination of major software deliveries.
Facilitate technical demonstrations and sprint reviews for government and program stakeholders.
Help teams identify and implement process improvements that increase quality, productivity, and predictability.
Identify recurring issues, bottlenecks, and organizational impediments and drive corrective actions.
Promote engineering best practices, quality standards, automation, and continuous integration within the team's development process.
Support risk, issue, action, and dependency tracking.
Coordinate with Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Test & Evaluation, Configuration Management, and Program Management organizations.
Assist with program planning, status reporting, and milestone tracking as needed.
Support preparation for customer meetings, program reviews, technical interchange meetings, and demonstrations.
Maintain appropriate documentation and records required by the program.
Help ensure Agile processes remain aligned with contractual, security, quality, and organizational requirements.
Support additional program and Agile transformation activities as assigned.
Job Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
3-7 years of experience working in Agile software development or engineering environments.
Demonstrated experience serving as a Scrum Master for software or systems engineering teams.
Strong knowledge of Scrum, Agile, and Lean principles and practices.
Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and working with cross-functional engineering teams.
Demonstrated ability to identify and remove impediments.
Experience managing team dependencies, risks, issues, and delivery commitments.
Experience with Agile project-management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Rally, or similar platforms.
Strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, technical leadership, program management, customers, and government stakeholders.
Strong organizational and time-management skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, technically complex environment.
Ability to work independently while also functioning effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Ability to obtain and maintain any required security clearance.
U.S. citizenship may be required due to the nature of the work and access to classified information.
Desired Competencies:
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), PMI-ACP, or equivalent Agile certification.
Experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD) programs.
Experience working with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Space Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, or other defense organizations.
Experience supporting modeling and simulation (M&S) programs.
Experience with software-intensive defense programs.
Experience supporting programs involving missile defense, command and control, sensors, tracking, threat systems, or related mission areas.
Experience coordinating Agile activities across multiple teams or Agile Release Trains.
Experience with Program Increment (PI) Planning and execution.
Experience with Agile Release Train (ART) environments.
Experience with DevSecOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environments.
Familiarity with software development practices including automated testing, configuration management, and continuous integration.
Experience working in classified environments.
Experience supporting requirements management, systems engineering, verification, and validation activities.
Familiarity with government acquisition and defense program processes.
Experience preparing and presenting Agile metrics and program status to senior leadership and government customers.
