Cleared Scrum Master

$85,600 - $133,750/Yr

Noblis - Reston, VA

Part-time,Full-time - Mid Level

Reston, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Noblis is seeking a Scrum Master (All Levels) with an ACTIVE Top Secret with SCI and Polygraph clearance to support federal clients in Reston, VA. The role involves working collaboratively with software developers, systems engineers, and other stakeholders to implement agile best practices and develop innovative solutions for mission challenges. The Scrum Master will facilitate various agile ceremonies, manage project tasks, and ensure effective communication among team members and leadership.

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 lay out 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
• Create, maintain, and organize backlog of features, epics, stories, and tasks in JIRA
• 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 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
• 3-5 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
• Facilitate and prepare for external end-of-sprint demonstrations
• 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

Nice-to-haves

• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Experience with full software development lifecycle (business process, requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, training) a plus
• 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

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Financial benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Professional development
• Tuition assistance
• Work-life programs