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 to lead and coordinate technical projects related to a major Data Center consolidation. This role requires an active Secret clearance and involves managing projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring that all objectives and requirements are met while maintaining adherence to budget and schedule.

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 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 GCP.
• Strong written and oral communication skills required.
• Possess strong technical skills in 3 or more of the following areas: Network services, Servers, Storage, Database services, Security services, Web application hosting.