Agile Scrum Master

Description

The company is hiring an experienced Agile Scrum Master whose strengths include Agile and SAFe delivery. You will coach several agile teams and build working relationships with stakeholders, including the customer's Product Owners, using clear speech and writing.

You will partner closely with the release train engineer and other Agile Release Train staff to keep planning, development, testing, and deployment on track in an Agile setting.

The full-time role is a regular position. The work supports customer missions tied to national safety.

Responsibilities

• Coach and lead an agile team working within a scaled agile framework (SAFe).
• Run team breakouts during PI Planning so teams can plan their work and set PI objectives.
• Guide planning and delivery across each Program Increment through sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos.
• Support backlog refinement alongside product owners and business analysts.
• Find and clear blockers, reaching across the wider organization when needed, and coordinate work between teams.
• Track team metrics to see how the team performs and where it can improve.
• Run capacity planning so teams can set realistic iteration and increment goals.
• Work with other Scrum Masters to manage dependencies and keep practices consistent across teams.
• Act as the link to architects, cyber security specialists, and other stakeholders, helping engineering disciplines communicate well.
• Manage releases and the dependencies between your teams, other Scrum teams, and third parties.
• Help shape product roadmaps.
• Push the team to keep improving and to perform at a high level.
• Design new processes and improve existing ones to raise quality and productivity.
• Raise the team's profile in Agile communities of practice and contribute to the organization's Agile community.
• Make sure your assigned Epics and Features have the right staffing.
• Plan and assign work, advise and guide the team, and solve problems so technical and business goals are met.
• Keep product quality high and delivery on schedule.

Requirements

• An active Secret clearance.
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, plus seven years of related work.
• Certified Scrum Master or Certified SAFe Scrum Master, with substantial experience coaching Scrum teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
• At least three years leading teams that work in Agile Scrum or a scaled Agile approach.
• A working grasp of every stage of software development: planning, development, requirements management, configuration management, quality assurance, and release management.
• Dependable and team-minded, with a strong work ethic and the drive to work independently.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to pass an IT-1 background investigation.
• Desired: SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, SAFe Practitioner, or another Scaled Agile certification.
• Desired: Experience with continuous deployment models.
• Desired: Skill in applying advanced principles and theories, and in helping shape new ideas and approaches.

Conditions

Full-time, regular position with local travel of up to 10%.

The role can be based in more than one location, so the stated range is the national average.

Proposed salary range: $75,200-$158,100.

Final pay depends on factors such as location, federal contract labor categories and wage rates, relevant experience, specific skills, education, and certifications.

Benefits

• A flexible time off benefit that lets you take the time you need.
• Access to robust learning resources and learning and development opportunities.
• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off.