SCRUM Master

SAIC - Chantilly, VA

Full-time - Entry Level

Chantilly, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

SAIC is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to support a high visibility data engineering environment. The role involves contributing to and coordinating efforts that align with the customer's strategic direction and daily operations within an Agile framework. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of IT systems and experience in delivering projects using a SAFe Agile framework, while also being a self-starter.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate technical discussions, decision making, impediment resolution, and conflict resolution.
• Ensure transparency from Product Owner to Scrum team by facilitating internal and external communication.
• Perform continual assessment of the maturity of the Scrum team and provide coaching and insight in support of greater maturity.
• Commit to continuous process improvement including active facilitation of reviews and retrospectives and incorporation of lessons learned for future Sprints.
• Schedule and facilitate Scrum ceremonies (stand up, poker, planning, demo, retrospective, etc).
• Remove impediments to the development team's progress.
• Work with the Product Owner to refine and prioritize the backlog.
• Responsible for planning of Sprints based on backlog priority and development team velocity.
• Assist in gathering requirements and creation of user stories.
• Ability to create team dashboards and other reports documenting work completed each Sprint.
• Help establish the definition of done (Acceptance Criteria) for user stories.
• Support release planning activities to include coordination with the customer's Change Management board.
• Engage stakeholders, contributors, and technical resources to assess requirements, risks, and issues.
• Communicate committed stories for the upcoming Sprint to Product Owner and stakeholders.
• Track and produce key metrics (e.g., burndown, burnup).
• Other similar professional duties such as incident and change management reporting, release planning activities, and coordination with customer's Change Management Board.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph is required to be considered.
• Bachelors and nine (9) years experience - OR - four (4) additional years of relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Certification: PMP or CSM.
• Prior experience as a Scrum Master to drive Agile practices and execution for a set of Scrum/Kanban teams.
• Working knowledge of SAFe, Jira, and Confluence.
• Working knowledge of Enterprise IT Service Management tools such as ServiceNow.
• Positive attitude, self-motivation, curious creativity, personal desire.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.

Benefits

• SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
• Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.