Expert Scrum Master

$146,000 - $234,000/Yr

Peraton - Chantilly, VA

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Chantilly, VA
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

Peraton is seeking a Scrum Master in our Chantilly, VA office in support of an Intelligence Community (IC) customer as part of a highly talented, highly motivated, and high-performing team. In this role, you will support an exciting program that focuses on the development, delivery, and maintenance of solutions for the customer's data engineering office. As a Scrum Master, you will serve as a liaison between the product owner, operations and maintenance (O&M) team, cross-functional teams, and management to ensure that all targets and requirements are included in the release. Your responsibilities will include coaching the team on how to self-organize and plan work into enabling features and stories along program increments and sprints. You will also be tasked with removing individual and team impediments and guiding the team to overcome these challenges. In addition, you will outline and prioritize work based on program initiatives and business value, coordinating and monitoring the Scrum process from initiation through delivery to ensure that the release is developed by the deadline and within budget. Maintaining the product backlog and facilitating productivity by removing impediments, resolving conflicts, and constantly seeking efficient and effective process improvements will be key aspects of your role. You will need to preserve flexibility and the ability to rapidly respond to changes, ensuring process standardization of all Scrum events, including Sprint Planning Meetings, Daily Stand-up Meetings, Reviews, and Retrospectives. Collaboration with other Scrum Masters within the program to share knowledge and best practices will also be an important part of your responsibilities. Furthermore, you will teach technical teams basic to advanced Agile concepts, including Epic and User Story creation, Scrum, best practices, and tools.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as liaisons between the product owner, O&M team, cross functional teams, and management to ensure all targets and requirements are included in the release.
  • Coach the team on how to self-organize and plan work into enabling features and stories along program increments and sprints.
  • Remove individual and team impediments and guide the team to remove impediments.
  • Outline and prioritize work based on program initiatives and business value.
  • Coordinate and monitor the Scrum process from initiation through delivery to ensure the release is developed by the deadline and within budget.
  • Maintain product backlog and facilitate productivity by removing impediments, resolving conflicts, and constantly seeking efficient and effective process improvement.
  • Preserve flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes.
  • Ensure process standardization of all Scrum events to include but not limited to: Sprint Planning Meetings, Daily Stand-up Meetings, Reviews and Retrospectives.
  • Collaborate with other Scrum Masters within the program to share knowledge and best practices.
  • Teach technical teams basic to advanced Agile concepts including Epic and User Story creation, Scrum, best practices and tools.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 7 years with Ph.D.; 15 years in lieu of degree.
  • Experience as Scrum Master with in-depth knowledge of delivering projects/tasks to the Customer.
  • Strong knowledge of DevOps and Agile methodologies.
  • Experience with ServiceNow and/or JIRA Ticketing systems.
  • TS SCI with poly.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with creating dashboards and/or metrics with Jira/Confluence.
  • Knowledge of AWS or AWS GovCloud & native AWS administrative tools and dashboards.
  • Experience with scrum project management, agile software development, and software version control management.
  • Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience with cloud computing service including enterprise architecture, application planning, and deployment.
  • Experience with providing data driven metrics at customer and stakeholder engagements that lead to solution driven development and completion of tasks.
  • Experience managing, coaching, and mentoring teams.
  • Experience aligning multiple teams with different agile methodologies to ensure a quality software product and customer satisfaction.

Benefits

  • Paid Time-Off and Holidays
  • Retirement
  • Life & Disability Insurance
  • Career Development
  • Tuition Assistance and Student Loan Financing
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Medical, Dental, & Vision Care
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