Cleared Scrum Master
Noblis - Chantilly, VA
posted 6 months ago
About the position
Noblis is seeking to hire a Scrum Master (All Levels) with an ACTIVE Top Secret with SCI and Polygraph in Chantilly, VA. As a Data Scientist with our team, you will be working with our federal clients to support the development of innovative solutions for immediate mission challenges. In your role, you will work on teams with software developers, systems engineers, systems architects, business analysts, PMs, and SMEs to apply the best practices and state-of-the-art agile methodologies. This position involves supporting a team developing software and analytics to solve important mission challenges. You will interface with the team to scope projects and maintain tasks and milestones on schedule, utilizing tools such as GitHub, JIRA, and/or Confluence to record project information for knowledge management. You will work closely with SMEs and technical experts at all levels to layout program roadmaps, develop user stories, and tasks. Regular updates, metrics, and results will be presented to a larger team of leadership and clients. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or similar fields, along with 2-5 years of experience with IT projects, preferably as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach. You will prepare for and lead daily scrum meetings, biweekly sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, backlog grooming meetings, and planning poker sessions for multiple technical teams. Extensive experience applying Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe methodologies to projects of varying sizes is essential. You will facilitate and prepare for external end-of-sprint demonstrations, create and maintain a backlog of features, epics, stories, and tasks in JIRA, and provide input to release planning using team capacity and skill set information. Additionally, you will compile, analyze, and present statistics about time estimation accuracy, team velocity, and burndown rate to manage each sprint effectively. Meeting with product owners and operational business managers to introduce scrum and program processes and outline expectations is also part of your responsibilities. You will identify common issues across teams, such as communication and UI consistency, and lead the implementation of new solutions. Communication of team progress and dependencies with other team leads during scrum of scrums is crucial, as is interfacing with business, test, and user support teams to receive requirements information and forward updates on feature progress. You will review and provide feedback on drafted user stories and epics to ensure alignment with general Agile user story standards, and create general Agile graphics and PMO with executive briefings.
Responsibilities
- Interface with the team to scope projects and maintain tasks and milestones on schedule.
- Utilize GitHub, JIRA, and/or Confluence, and record the project information for knowledge management.
- Work with SMEs and technical experts at all levels to layout program roadmaps, develop user stories, tasks, etc.
- Present updates, metrics, and results to a larger team of leadership and clients on a regular basis.
- Prepare for and lead daily scrum meetings, biweekly sprint planning, review, retrospective, backlog grooming meetings, and planning poker sessions for multiple technical teams.
- Extensive experience applying Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe methodologies to projects of varying sizes.
- Facilitate and prepare for external end-of-sprint demonstrations.
- Create, maintain, and organize backlog of features, epics, stories, and tasks in JIRA.
- Provide input to release planning using team capacity and skill set information.
- Compile, analyze, and present statistics about time estimation accuracy, team velocity, and burndown rate to manage each sprint.
- Meet with product owners and operational business managers for selected modules to introduce scrum and program processes and outline expectations.
- Identify common issues across teams (e.g. communication, UI consistency) and lead the implementation of new solutions.
- Communicate team progress and dependencies with other team leads during scrum of scrums.
- Interface with business, test, and user support teams to receive requirements information and forward updates on feature progress.
- Review and provide feedback on drafted user stories and epics to ensure alignment with general Agile user story standards.
- Create general Agile graphics and PMO with executive briefings.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Business or similar fields.
- 2-5 years of experience with IT projects, preferably as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach.
- Extensive experience applying Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe methodologies to projects of varying sizes.
- Experience developing product roadmaps and defining long term timelines.
- Strong self-organization and self-management skills, with emphasis on self-initiation and follow through.
- Experience with implementing scrum for large scale, complex systems.
- Experience using Agile backlog management tool(s), preferably JIRA.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Strong organizational and creativity skills, able to maintain composure in a chaotic environment and promote a sensible and logical approach to issues.
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to work well in a mixed team of government personnel and other contractors.
- Able to work collaboratively with business analysts, developers, and testers and understand each trade and skillset.
- Experience with full software development lifecycle (business process, requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, training) a plus.
Nice-to-haves
- Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or experience on an Agile / Scrum team.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage.
- Life insurance coverage.
- Disability insurance coverage.
- Financial and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Tuition assistance programs.
- Work-life balance programs.
