Scrum Master (ETS)

Ampcus - Merrifield, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Merrifield, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Scrum Master at Ampcus Inc. plays a crucial role in leading and facilitating agile practices within the team. This position involves close collaboration with the Product Owner to prioritize initiatives, remove impediments, and foster a high-performance environment. The Scrum Master is responsible for managing the team's workflow, advocating for lean and agile methodologies, and mentoring junior staff while ensuring the successful delivery of projects.

Responsibilities

• Exhibit behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader through mindset; helps the team embrace SAFe core values, adopt and implement SAFe practices.
• Support the team rules of Scrum, eliminate impediments and lead the team in efforts for relentless improvement and heightened efficiency.
• Ensure technology and service delivery roadmap support the solution strategy and are sustainable to meet the needs of the various solutions being delivered on that product.
• Facilitate the team's progress toward team goals; utilizing the current Program Increment (PI) Objectives as Iteration Goals.
• Ensure that goals, scope and product backlog items are understood and can be fulfilled by team members.
• Collaborate with Product Owner, customers and developers to identify and clarify scope of problems/issues in terms of business/systems requirements and processes.
• Support the team's efforts to continuously improve communications and relationships with other delivery teams; represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS).
• Engage in challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.
• Support software development teams in using the Scrum framework.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Functional and technical expertise in at least 1 analytics or business intelligence application or product.
• Significant project management experience, as well as strong fundamentals in advanced analytics, data integration, and visualization.
• Working knowledge of Cloud Applications (e.g. Azure, Data Bricks).
• Proficient in software development and system administration.
• Significant experience in resource allocation and management.
• Significant experience in leading, guiding and coaching professional staff.
• Significant experience leading agile development teams and facilitating team meetings in Agile environment.
• Advanced knowledge of development or operations framework methodologies, including Agile principles.

Nice-to-haves

• In-depth knowledge and experience in Banking/Finance/Investments, familiar with terminology, concepts and business processes and systems.
• Familiarity with industry standards and regulations.
• CSM and/or PMI-ACP certification.
• Advanced degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.