Scrum Master (MDaas)

Clarity Innovations - Annapolis Junction, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Annapolis Junction, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Scrum Master at Clarity Innovations will play a crucial role in facilitating the MDaaS Team's agile processes, ensuring effective communication and collaboration among team members, and driving the successful delivery of high-quality products. This position requires a proactive leader who can manage sprint schedules, resolve blockers, and track team performance metrics to enhance productivity and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Guides and coaches the MDaaS Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high-quality products and services.
• Works closely with the Delivery Manager to define and track metrics that measure team performance and drive positive outcomes for customers.
• Communicates effectively internally and externally to meet meeting objectives and share the MDaaS Team's work.
• Influences and drives decision-making within the MDaaS Team and supports organizational project or product teams.
• Identifies, tracks, and supports the resolution of team impediments to increase team effectiveness.
• Represents MDaaS Team interests during strategic brainstorming at the organization level, if necessary.
• Builds and maintains regular reporting to communicate the MDaaS Team's activities and performance impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Management, Computer Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years of product development experience.
• Proficiency in CI/CD Pipelines & Infrastructure development.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and understanding of facilitation techniques.
• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.
• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. ScrumBan, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and understanding of software development life cycle models.
• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with ScrumBan agile framework.
• Proficiency using GitLab.
• Eligible to obtain security clearance.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities (EEO) without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.