Scrum Master, Junior

As a Scrum Master, you’re passionate about outcomes and supporting a development team that’s modernizing critical projects. You know the importance of Agile best practices and how to combat challenges early to get work done. We need a Scrum Master to create solutions that’ll help us impact defense and national security-related industries.

About the role

On our team, you’ll apply your functional knowledge to coach a development team to focus on sprint goals, ensuring the project is successfully progressed. You’ll apply basic Scrum principles and concepts to resolve routine problems. Using tools like Jira, you’ll strengthen sustainable process improvements to help your team execute Agile ceremonies that lead to functional products for the client.

In this role, you’ll directly impact an engineering team as a Scrum Master to facilitate Agile best practices and mentor new team members on Agile processes. You will facilitate sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. You'll support the management team in communicating with clients and stakeholders to manage expectations. You will collect and write detailed user stories and work with the team and client to identify associated tasks and acceptance criteria. You'll analyze business processes and work with the project team to implement and improve processes. You will maintain a product backlog, support QA and requirement validation, meet with various stakeholders to discuss needs, and provide suggestions during stakeholder interviews and requirements gathering. You'll provide documentation for new efforts, including level of effort analysis, plans or timelines, requirements documents, and other required documentation.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile best practices and mentor new team members on Agile processes
• Facilitate sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
• Support the management team in communicating with clients and stakeholders to manage expectations
• Collect and write detailed user stories and work with the team and client to identify associated tasks and acceptance criteria
• Analyze business processes and work with the project team to implement and improve processes
• Maintain a product backlog, support QA and requirement validation
• Meet with various stakeholders to discuss needs and provide suggestions during stakeholder interviews and requirements gathering
• Provide documentation for new efforts, including level of effort analysis, plans or timelines, requirements documents, and other required documentation

Requirements

• Experience working in a professional environment
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to function in a dynamic working environment
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree

Qualifications

• Experience as the Scrum Master of an engineering team
• Experience with Jira, including experience managing and integrating Jira boards for multiple teams under one project
• Experience leading client delivery engagements and working with senior-level client management
• Experience teaching basic Agile framework concepts to technical teams
• Knowledge of project management frameworks
• Knowledge of DoD and systems engineering processes
• Excellent problem-solving skills, to provide technical assistance to IT development teams
• Excellent interpersonal skills, to successfully interact with clients, engineers, and managers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification

Benefits

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

Pay

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $48,100.00 to $98,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees.

Schedule

This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

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• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.