Job Description
· Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies: Lead all team-level Agile events, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, to ensure the team maintains its disciplined two-week sprint cadence.
· Support PI Planning: Actively participate in and support the team's Program Increment (PI) planning events three times annually, helping to align team objectives with broader program goals.
· Impediment Removal: Proactively identify, track, and remove obstacles, distractions, and dependencies that hinder the development team's progress and focus.
· Agile Coaching: Act as a servant-leader and coach, guiding the team on Scrum principles, Agile best practices, and fostering an environment of continuous improvement and self-organization.
· Backlog Management Support: Assist the Product Owner in maintaining a healthy, well-defined, and properly prioritized product backlog.
· Foster Transparency: Ensure that key Agile artifacts, such as product backlogs, burndown charts, and team metrics, are visible, accurate, and up-to-date to promote transparency with stakeholders.
· Multi-Vendor Collaboration: Facilitate communication and effective collaboration between the CI team and other key vendors (Haivision, GET, DRS, Compunetix, NSWCDD) to ensure seamless integration and resolve cross-team dependencies.
Key Deliverables:
· A predictable and efficient sprint cadence with properly facilitated and time-boxed events.
· An impediment log showing tracked, prioritized, and resolved issues.
· Accurate and transparent Agile artifacts (e.g., burndown charts, velocity metrics, updated backlogs).
Actionable improvement items generated from sprint retrospectives to increase team effectiveness.
Compensation:
$45-55/hour
Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.
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Required Skills & Experience
· Active DoD Secret security clearance.
· 3-5+ years of experience in a Scrum Master role for a software or systems development team.
· Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent certification.
· Expert knowledge of Agile and Scrum principles, values, and practices.
· Proven ability to act as a servant-leader, with strong facilitation, coaching, situational awareness, and conflict resolution skills.
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with direct experience working in a multi-team or multi-vendor environment.
· Experience with Agile management tools such as Jira and Confluence.
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.