Senior Scrum Master

$140,800 - $158,000/Yr

GovCIO - Sterling, VA

Full-time - Senior

Sterling, VA

About the position

GovCIO is seeking a Senior Scrum Master with an active Secret clearance to oversee and coordinate technical projects related to a major Data Center consolidation. This hybrid position is based in Sterling, Virginia, and involves managing project timelines, stakeholder requirements, and ensuring adherence to quality standards throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and monitor technical projects or programs from initiation through delivery in support of a major customer Data Center consolidation.
• Gather required data from end users to evaluate objectives, goals, and scope to create technical specifications.
• Serve as liaisons between technical and non-technical departments to ensure that all targets and requirements are met.
• Ensure technical projects are completed on schedule and within budget.
• Keep leadership informed of key issues that may impact project completion, budget, or other results.
• Manage all aspects of Data Center Consolidation project.
• Solicit and validate stakeholder requirements for transition of current services to provided core services.
• Assist the Government in simplifying the IT infrastructure and standardizing services while ensuring availability and performance of critical IT services.
• Manage and ensure the timely completion of specific, defined multi-discipline technical programs or projects of greater than average complexity and scope.
• Conduct project meetings and be responsible for project tracking and analysis.
• Research, plan, communicate, and achieve objectives through program/project team.
• Oversee the team as they plan, track, and execute project plans from start to completion.
• Recommend changes to improve the process and to alleviate process inaccuracy and duplication.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards and review project deliverables.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or Social Science with 8+ years project management experience (or commensurate experience).
• Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and hold DEA suitability.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in managing, directing, and implementing information technology projects.
• Experience managing a diverse group of functional activities and subordinate groups of technical and administrative personnel.
• Experience with management of data center consolidation project(s).
• Proven success in planning, scheduling, and executing technical projects within budget and schedule.
• Experience in design, analysis, and implementation of data center physical, environmental, and technical systems.
• Experience in development of systems engineering and design documents for IT systems and infrastructure.
• Experience working with application owners and key stakeholders in the planning of services and data migration.
• Experience maintaining a RAID log to track Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies impacting project goals and targets.
• Experience managing Waterfall and Agile projects.
• Experience maintaining a well-defined Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) with tools like Microsoft Project.
• Experience with migrations from Physical Data Centers to Commercial Cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Possess strong technical skills in 3 or more of the following areas: Network services, Servers, Storage, Database services, Security services, Web application hosting.