Scrum Master / Release Train Engineer - TS/SCI

Job Description

Orchestrate the team’s progress toward development, test, and demonstration goals in collaboration with the Lead Systems Engineer and the Technical Director.

Continuously challenge the old ways of working to improve team performance and innovation in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, velocity and other metrics.

Help plan and maintain progress on the goals of the current Program Increment (PI).

Drive and facilitate a culture of continuous improvement through activities such as team retrospectives and lessons learned, to include the definition, tracking, and reporting of appropriate metrics.

Establish and facilitate the agile cadence and supporting ceremonies such as Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning/Review, Sprint Planning/Review, Retrospectives, etc.

Ensure the definition of done, testing requirements, documentation requirements, and other team/ART level working agreements are being followed.

Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution within the team/ART to quickly identify and remove roadblocks and improve team performance and value delivery.

Support the development and maintenance of the product backlog, work estimation, release planning, etc.

Confident self-starter with ability to prioritize progress, manage conflict, drive agile process adoption, and achieve consensus on a cross-functional team with varying agile experience and potentially competing priorities.

Promote and support Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), DevSecOps, and automation best practices within the Agile delivery lifecycle.

Required Skills

Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field; additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

8 years’ experience or equivalent in the use of Agile methodologies including three plus years as Scrum Master, Kanban lead, or Software Product Owner.

Proven success leading Agile teams to agile maturity and improved customer outcomes.

Experience leading change and continuous improvement, working with a cross functional team by applying lean agile values, practices, and principles.

Expert knowledge of product ownership, DevOps, Test Automation practices etc.

Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Ability to organize data and create metrics/reports/dashboards.

Active TS security clearance with SCI eligibility, may require a polygraph.

Desired Skills

Certified Scrum Master (CSP) or Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer.

Experience using Agile lifecycle management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Rally, or Azure DevOps.

Basic understanding of offensive and defensive cyber tactics.

Basic understanding of cloud computing principles and practices.

Pay

$112,200.00 - $196,400.00