Senior Scrum Master
Location: Springfield, VA
Clearance: TS/SCI
Citizenship: US Citizenship Required
Whether running countries, corporations, or courtrooms, our clients bear the responsibility for shaping the lives of millions. At Intellectix, we are on a mission to empower them with innovative technical solutions and drive transformational change. As a Senior Scrum Master, you'll be the cornerstone of this mission, ensuring the security of crucial data, optimizing IT infrastructure, and simplifying business processes through cutting-edge software systems. Because at Intellectix, it's not what we do, it's why we do it.
Key Responsibilities:
- Guide scrum-team through all sprints of a program increment, removing impediments and championing the team
- Organize and facilitate sprint planning and release planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other agile related events
- Track and communicate team metrics and sprint/release progress to all teams and management
- Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
- Assist product owners with backlog grooming
- Determine and remove impediments that interfere with the ability of the teams to deliver assigned goals
- Promote continuous improvement and help teams to increase velocity
- Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters experimentation, creativity and innovation
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
- Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
- Assist with internal and external communication
- Assist the scrum team in developing and estimating user stories that are clearly articulated with well-defined acceptance criteria
Qualifications:
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, and work experience
- Experience leading Agile Scrum teams in a cloud environment
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps and/or software/application development processes
- Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques
- Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with Atlassian Agile Products; specifically JIRA and Confluence
- Active TS/SCI clearance required to start and must be able to obtain a CI Poly
Required Skills:
- 5+ years of experience working within the DoD or IC Community
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification
- Scaled Agile Framework for the enterprise (SAFe) Agilist Certification
Join Intellectix and be part of a dynamic team that thrives on tempo, teamwork, and technical excellence. Your skills and expertise will contribute to creating a safer and smarter tomorrow.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
