Peraton - Chantilly, VA
posted 3 months ago
Peraton is seeking a Senior Scrum Master in our Chantilly, VA office to support an Intelligence Community (IC) customer as part of a highly talented, motivated, and high-performing team. This role is crucial in supporting an exciting program that focuses on the development, delivery, and maintenance of solutions for the customer's data engineering office. The Senior Scrum Master will act as a liaison between the product owner, operations and maintenance (O&M) team, cross-functional teams, and management to ensure that all targets and requirements are included in the release. In this position, you will coach the team on how to self-organize and plan work into enabling features and stories along program increments and sprints. You will be responsible for removing individual and team impediments and guiding the team to overcome these challenges. Additionally, you will outline and prioritize work based on program initiatives and business value, coordinating and monitoring the Scrum process from initiation through delivery to ensure that releases are developed by the deadline and within budget. Maintaining the product backlog is a key responsibility, as is facilitating productivity by removing impediments, resolving conflicts, and constantly seeking efficient and effective process improvements. You will need to preserve flexibility and the ability to rapidly respond to changes while ensuring process standardization of all Scrum events, including Sprint Planning Meetings, Daily Stand-up Meetings, Reviews, and Retrospectives. Collaboration with other Scrum Masters within the program to share knowledge and best practices is also essential. The ideal candidate will have experience teaching technical teams basic to advanced Agile concepts, including Epic and User Story creation, Scrum, best practices, and tools. This role requires a strong understanding of DevOps and Agile methodologies, as well as experience with ServiceNow and/or JIRA ticketing systems. A Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS SCI) clearance with polygraph is required for this position.