Agile Scrum Master

Role Overview

• Coach and lead an agile team within a scaled agile framework
• Facilitate team breakouts to plan work and create PI objectives during PI Planning
• Facilitate planning and execution of work during a Program Increment through sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos
• Facilitate backlog refinement by collaborating with the product owners and business analysts
• Track and remove impediments to improve agile team’s efficiency and effectiveness; reaching out to the larger organizational network for impediment removal; ensuring cross-team coordination
• Maintain relevant metrics to understand how well the team is doing and identify areas of improvement
• Perform capacity planning to help teams plan iterations and increments
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to manage dependencies and ensure consistency across teams
• Liaison with architects, cyber security SMEs, and other stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines
• Manage product releases and dependencies between teams and third parties or between assigned teams and other Scrum teams
• Support development of product roadmaps
• Coach the team to continuously improve and become a high performing team
• Develop new processes and refine existing processes to enhance quality and productivity
• Strengthen the presence of the team within the Agile communities of practice and actively contribute to the organization’s Agile Community
• Ensure appropriate capacity for assigned Epics and Features
• Provide guidance to the team, and facilitate impediment resolution to meet technical performance and business objectives

Requirements

• Secret security clearance or US citizen with ability to pass IT-1 background investigation upon hire
• Bachelor’s degree
• Comparable combination of lower education and additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• 5+ years of experience coaching SAFe implementations
• Certified Scrum Master or Certified SAFe Scrum Master
• Significant experience coaching Scrum teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong Agile background, with a minimum of three (3) years’ experience leading teams using an Agile Scrum or Scaled Agile approach
• Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong communication skills and work ethic; self-starter

Tech Stack

• Cyber Security

Benefits

• healthcare
• wellness
• financial
• retirement
• family support
• continuing education
• time off benefits