Scrum Master

About the role

Primarily responsible for the Agile flow methodology of the entire team. Work you'll do includes leading daily scrums, holding team members accountable for work, capturing updates in JIRA and Confluence, assisting program leadership in the successful and timely delivery of all deliverables, proactively grooming the backlog, leading Technical Empowerment Meetings (TEMs), translating requirements into epics, features, and user stories, providing scrum reports, capacity, velocity, and leading Program Increment Planning activities, working with client PMO to establish milestones and MVIs, leading design sessions in prototyping new systems, supporting user acceptance testing, helping to automate and streamline activities and user stories in JIRA to create efficiencies and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily scrums and hold team members accountable for work, capturing updates in JIRA and Confluence to reflect progress and dependencies.
• Secondarily reports to the leadership team of PM, Chief Engr, Tech Leads.
• Aid program leadership in the successful and timely delivery of all deliverables by monitoring and managing the Backlog or work.
• Proactively groom the backlog to simplify planning efforts.
• Lead TEMs to help the team break down work.
• Work with all team members in timely delivery of all CDRLs.
• Educate team on agile methodology (to include pointing) and support client leadership during Agile processes, providing outbriefs of progress as well as plans.
• Responsible to the entire team for managing the list of roadblocks and impediments (if any), attempting to find resolutions for them working with leadership.
• Translate requirements into epics, features, and user stories.
• Provide scrum reports, capacity, velocity, and lead Program Increment Planning activities.
• Work with client PMO to establish milestones and MVIs to ensure goals from leadership align with contract work/deliverables.
• Lead design sessions in prototyping new systems.
• Support user acceptance testing.
• Help to automate and streamline activities and user stories in JIRA to create efficiencies and process improvement.

Requirements

• 5 to 10+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: Scrum methodology, Agile lifecycle and coordination of Scrums and other processes, Agile Scrum Development and/or Kanban, Using tools used in Agile/Scrum programs, such as Jira and Confluence, Developing and maintaining documentation, artifacts, and reports on sprints, epics, and milestones.

Qualifications

Active TS/SCI with Poly security clearance is required.

Skills

Not specified.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Base pay range for this position in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is $111,800—$221,800 USD.

Schedule

Not specified.