Sr Certified Scrum Master

Position Summary

We are seeking a Scrum Master to join the team supporting our government contract. The selected individuals will need to live in the DC Metro area to report to HQ in Arlington, VA twice per pay period. Candidates MUST be a US Citizen and be able to obtain a Position of Public Trust Clearance.

Primary Responsibilities

• Facilitate and guide the scrum team in adopting and implementing the Scrum framework - which includes organizing and leading Scrum ceremonies, removing impediments, promoting collaboration and ensuring adherence to Scrum principles and values.
• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
• Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Develop and provide brown bags and training to JIRA users and management on best practices and applications for the agile process along with related reporting and summarizing activities in JIRA.
• Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles.
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.
• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices.
• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques.
• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams.
• Experience Bachelor’s degree and at least 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or 4 years of additional experience is required in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience working in JIRA to manage ceremonies, capture sprint activities, record epics, stories, tasks, and other team activities, and develop reporting for leadership and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques.
• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Certified Scrum Master.

Requirements

• MUST be a US Citizen and be able to obtain a Position of Public Trust Clearance.
• Must not have traveled outside the US for a combined total of 6 months or more in last 5 years and have resided in the US for the last 5 years.

Additional Provisions

• All candidates must be a US Citizen.
• Pass a client mandated clearance process to include drug screening, criminal history check and credit check.
• Military Service excluded. (Exception does not include military family members.)