Scrum Master

$60,300 - $137,000/Yr

Booz Allen Hamilton - Huntsville, AL

posted 4 months ago

Part-time,Full-time - Mid Level
Huntsville, AL
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Scrum Master at Booz Allen Hamilton, you will play a pivotal role in guiding a development team through Agile best practices. Your primary responsibilities will include facilitating sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring that the team adheres to Agile methodologies. You will also mentor new team members on Agile processes, helping them to understand and implement these practices effectively. In addition to your facilitation duties, you will support the management team in communicating with clients and stakeholders, managing expectations, and ensuring that project goals are met. Your role will involve collecting and writing detailed user stories, collaborating with the team and clients to identify associated tasks and acceptance criteria. You will analyze business processes and work closely with the project team to implement improvements. Maintaining a product backlog will be essential, as will supporting quality assurance and requirement validation. You will meet with various stakeholders to discuss their needs and provide valuable suggestions during interviews and requirements gathering sessions. Furthermore, you will be responsible for creating documentation for new efforts, including level of effort analysis, plans or timelines, requirements documents, and any other necessary documentation to support the project. This position requires a strong background in Agile methodologies, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You will be expected to lead client delivery engagements and work closely with senior-level client management, ensuring that all project deliverables meet the highest standards.

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate Agile best practices within the development team.
  • Mentor new team members on Agile processes.
  • Facilitate sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
  • Support management in communicating with clients and stakeholders.
  • Collect and write detailed user stories with associated tasks and acceptance criteria.
  • Analyze business processes and implement improvements with the project team.
  • Maintain a product backlog and support QA and requirement validation.
  • Meet with stakeholders to discuss needs and provide suggestions during interviews and requirements gathering.
  • Provide documentation for new efforts, including level of effort analysis, plans or timelines, and requirements documents.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience with gathering and documenting technical and business requirements.
  • 5+ years of experience as the Scrum Master of a development team.
  • Experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence.
  • Experience in leading client delivery engagements and working with senior-level client management.
  • Experience teaching technical teams the basic Agile framework concepts.
  • Top Secret clearance.
  • Bachelor's degree.

Nice-to-haves

  • Knowledge of the project management framework.
  • Knowledge of IT infrastructures.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced and collaborative team environment.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills to provide technical assistance to IT development teams.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills to interact with clients, engineers, and managers.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification.

Benefits

  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid holidays
  • Tuition assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • 401(k)
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