7+ years as certified Scrum Master, Product Owner, or Release Train Engineer (RTE)
5 years leading Agile/Scrum projects
Strong understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies
Ability to manage medium to large scale projects
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Active Secret level security clearance
Responsibilities
Ensure team understands and enacts Scrum theory and practices
Support multiple applications in a fast-paced development environment
Lead complex, large-scale Agile program coordination
Organize and facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
Facilitate Program Increment Planning and track team metrics
Assist product owner with defining user stories and product backlog
Remove obstacles that hinder team progress and delivery
Benefits
Promote a collaborative and innovative team environment
Opportunity to work in a complex Agile program
Facilitates professional development in Agile methodologies
Engage with diverse teams and applications in the organization
Support mission assurance and operational management functions
Full Job Description
Responsibilities
As a Scrum Master on this program, you will be tasked with the following duties:
Ensure that Scrum theory, practices, and rules are understood by the team and enacted.
Support multiple applications with different team members within a fast-paced application development environment while adhering to Scrum principles.
Lead a complex, large scale Agile program and coordinate with various program support teams.
Implementing new features that support mission assurance and operational management functions.
Organize and facilitate sprint planning and release planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other agile related events.
Organize and facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning and other SAFe related events, track and communicate team metrics and sprint/release progress to all teams and management.
In partnership with the product owner, agile coaches, scrum teams on user story sizing and acceptance criteria definition, facilitates the definition of minimal viable product, and leads continuous refinement and prioritization of the product backlog.
Ensure the development teams are embracing and practicing core agile principles.
Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
Assist with internal and external communication.
Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
Determine and remove all obstacles that may interfere with the ability of the teams to deliver assigned goals.
Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
Provide direction to project activities to ensure successful implementation and support.
Promote continuous improvement and help teams to increase stabilize velocity.
Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters experimentation, creativity, and innovation.
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in IT or related business field
BS 8-10, MS 6-8, PhD 3-5
Seven (7) or more years of experience as certified Scrum Master, Product Owner, or Release Train Engineer (RTE) for large Agile software development efforts
(5) years' experience leading projects under Agile/Scrum
Strong understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies
Ability to manage multiple projects of medium to large scale through all sprints/iterations and phases of the project.
Ability to communicate, influence and partner effectively using strong verbal and written communication.
Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
Experience managing complex large-scale enterprise IT projects.
Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised.
