AWS Scrum Master

About the role

This role supports the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate one complex Agile team or multiple smaller teams and coach team members in Scrum, Scrumban, or Kanban.
• Remove impediments, foster an environment of high-performing team dynamics, enable continuous flow, and drive relentless improvement.
• Collaborate closely with team members, other Agile Scrum Masters, and support personnel to ensure the team's commitments are achieved.
• Facilitate horizontal communication to surface impediments, lead discussions to analyze and triage issues, and champion process improvements.
• Strong attention to detail and a disciplined focus on task completion are essential.

Requirements

• Experience working with large software systems including hardware integration and test.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical development teams.
• Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology.
• Support DevOps, data engineering, and AI/ML teams deploying to DoD cloud environments (e.g., AWS GovCloud/SC2S).
• Experience using Kanban as a means to improve flow on support.
• Protect the team from scope creep during execution of the PI.
• Remove impediments and coordinate on implementing solutions.
• Coach, support, and enforce Scrum process and other process rules.
• Ensure that the team has a clear, shared understanding of the Definition of Done and consistently meets it.
• Clearly and concisely communicate status to management.
• Work with the Product Owner(s) to review and prioritize features.
• Lead and facilitate Agile ceremonies to include Sprint Planning and Sprint Reviews to include demos, Sprint Retrospectives, and PI Planning.
• Develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and generate information radiators for the teams.
• Collect and share team metrics with the team, determine when new metrics are needed, and develop improvements in metrics.
• Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles with the goal of continuous improvement.
• Observe team dynamics, recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team member contributions, and coach the team as a whole to drive improvements in productivity.
• Promote teamwork to achieve Sprint goals.
• Lead teams towards Agile maturity.
• Experiment with various ideas to improve delivery, including pair-programming and cross-functional training.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years or more of experience; Master's and 6+ years or more of experience, additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• Must have an active Secret clearance.
• US citizenship required.
• One or more cloud certifications.

Skills

• Strong attention to detail and a disciplined focus on task completion are essential.

Benefits

• SES Provides a Competitive Salary And The Following Benefits:
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• AD&D
• STD/LTD
• Company paid Life Insurance
• 401k with employer contribution
• Paid Time Off
• Pet Insurance