Scrum Master

Ampcus - Merrifield, VA

Full-time - Senior

Merrifield, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Scrum Master at Ampcus Inc. plays a crucial role in leading agile development teams by facilitating team meetings, removing impediments, and fostering a high-performance environment. This position requires close collaboration with the Product Owner to prioritize initiatives and ensure the team's continuous workflow. The Scrum Master is accountable for the completion of deliverables and milestones while mentoring junior staff and advocating for lean and agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Exhibit behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader and help the team embrace SAFe core values and principles.
• Support the team rules of Scrum, eliminate impediments, and lead efforts for improvement and efficiency.
• Ensure technology and service delivery roadmap supports the solution strategy and meets the needs of various solutions.
• Facilitate the team's progress toward goals using current Program Increment (PI) Objectives as Iteration Goals.
• Ensure that goals, scope, and product backlog items are understood by team members.
• Collaborate with Product Owner, customers, and developers to clarify scope of problems/issues in terms of requirements and processes.
• Support the team's efforts to improve communications and relationships with other delivery teams and represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS).
• Challenge old norms of development to improve performance in quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.
• Support software development teams in applying the Scrum framework.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading an agile development team, with the ability to lead two teams concurrently if needed.
• Significant experience in leading, mentoring, guiding, and coaching professional staff.
• Functional and technical expertise in at least one analytics or business intelligence application or product.
• Significant project management experience with 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.
• Advanced knowledge of development or operations framework methodologies, including Agile principles.
• Advanced database and presentation software skills.
• Advanced research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective skill in building strategic and execution-focused plans and alliances with partner leadership.

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.