Scrum Master
The Opportunity:As a Scrum Master, you're passionate about outcomes and supporting a development team that's modernizing critical projects. You know the importance of Agile best practices and how to combat challenges early to get work done.
On our team, you'll coach a development team to achieve its highest performance level while ensuring the team is meeting their PI and sprint goals. You will work on unusually complex problems, introduce leading-edge concepts, and provide highly innovative solutions to your team and key stakeholders.
Using tools like Jira and Confluence, you'll strengthen sustainable process improvements to help your team accomplish sprint planning and reviews.
What You'll Work On:- Collaborate with Product Owner, Engineering Lead, and Chief Architect to ensure backlog quality, clarity, and prioritization.
- Facilitate sprint ceremonies that produce consistent outcomes.
- Promote and measure Agile metrics.
- Collaborate closely with other scrum teams to align priorities, manage shared resources, and ensure consistent sequencing of work.
- Gather and document technical and business requirements.
- Ensure scrum principles and approaches are understood correctly by the development team and stakeholders and maximize the performance of the team.
- Coach the scrum team to apply appropriate processes to create successful products.
- Foster self-organization and collaborative scrum team and shelter the team from outside distractions to keep focus mainly on the agreed sprint goals.
- Monitor and improve the scrum process and project progress and help solve impediments in the development process.
Join us. The world can't wait.
You Have: - 5+ years of experience managing teams to meet stakeholder objectives such as in a Scrum Master role
- Experience with JIRA
- Experience leading client delivery engagements and working with senior-level client management
- Experience teaching technical teams comprised of junior and senior team members basic Agile framework concepts
- Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
- Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience gathering and documenting technical and business requirements, or 9+ years of experience gathering and documenting technical and business requirements in lieu of a degree
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification
Nice If You Have:- Knowledge of the project management framework
- Knowledge of agency or intelligence community and IT infrastructures
- Possession of excellent interpersonal skills to successfully interact with clients, engineers, and managers
- Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field
- Agile or PMI Certifications
Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.
CompensationSalary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual's particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen's total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.
Work ModelOur people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.
- Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
- Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
- Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.
