Scrum Master

About the role

Our team collaborates with all engineering disciplines to support the US Naval Submarine Program, including program and project management, requirements management, process engineering, systems, hardware, test, simulation, and software engineering. We seek a Scrum Master to coach and empower large or multiple medium-sized scrum teams, fostering high-quality, customer-centric outcomes. You will nurture Atlassian adoption and an Agile mindset, ensuring cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement. As part of our Agile (and Atlassian) Center of Excellence (ACE), you will play a key role in maturing our Agile practices within a broader waterfall framework, supporting our digital and Agile transformation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a "Servant-leader," "Situational Lead," and "Agile change agent," partnering with teams to adopt and refine Agile practices.
• Assess team Agile maturity and create roadmaps to guide teams toward their goals.
• Build Agile-minded teams by facilitating change and fostering rapid feedback and incremental value delivery.
• Plan, organize, and facilitate scrum activities, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, and retrospectives.
• Mentor and coach team members on core Agile values, principles, practices, and processes, whether using Scrum or Kanban.
• Enable teams to become self-organizing and self-managing, building trust with stakeholders, including customers.
• Maintain Jira and other information radiators (e.g., Confluence) and train teams on process adoption.
• Identify and resolve impediments that hinder development or prevent teams from meeting goals.
• Ensure the team’s "definition of done" is well-defined at the story, sprint, and release levels.
• Challenge existing processes and facilitate continuous improvement, incorporating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) mindset.
• Coach a continuous improvement mindset and recommend adjustments to delivery practices, working agreements, and team processes.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency.
• Foster a trusting and safe environment for problem-solving.
• Drive the collection and use of metrics for decision-making and team motivation.
• Publish team performance and product earned-value metrics for internal and customer-facing ceremonies and Program Increment reviews.
• Over time, participate in Scrum of Scrums to ensure cross-team collaboration and coordination of release plans and testing activities.
• Share interest and capability in establishing Agile Scale-Readiness approaches to meet growing team demands and cross-team content strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or higher.
• 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, or Agile Coach involved in Agile Transformation.
• Scrum Master or PMI-ACP certification (to complement seniority or years of experience).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with customers to gather requirements, model use cases, write user stories, and document business processes.

Skills

• "Do it, try it, fix it" mentality with comfort in encouraging this approach in others.
• Excellent people management skills: listening, motivating, observing, and providing/receiving feedback to help individuals and teams grow.
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and experience managing teams from inception to production.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies within Scrum at scale and experience implementing them.
• Working knowledge of Jira and Confluence as a front-end administrator.

Work environment: Inside.