Scrum Master

The Scrum Master will support a delivery team within a fast-paced application development environment. As the Scrum Master, you will be a critical member of the core delivery team empowered to help build high performing teams, build shippable product, and be responsible for leading Agile transformation at a program/portfolio level. Must be hands-on with tools used in Agile project management and be able to negotiate/work with Clients, Business partners and enthuse the team and get stuff done. In essence, he or she must excel in stakeholder management.

The Scrum Master should possess the ability and knowledge of the SDLC and processes and have had prior responsibility for driving Agile maturity models. He or she must work within the core discover, delivery, and services teams. The Scrum Master will be empowered/tasked with design, development, modification, and implementation of computer applications, and building high performing delivery teams.

The Scrum Master will serve as an Agile facilitator who is responsible and drives the team to deliver releases, engage stakeholders, contributors and technical resources to enable success.

• Prepare for and facilitate daily scrum meetings, biweekly sprint planning, review, retrospective, backlog grooming meetings, and planning poker sessions for multiple (2-3) technical teams supporting an enterprise application
• Facilitate and prepare for external end-of-sprint demonstrations
• Create, maintain, and organize backlog of features, epics, stories, and tasks in VSTS
• Provide input to release planning using team capacity and skill set information
• Compile, analyze, and present statistics about time estimation accuracy, team velocity, and burndown rate to development team and management each sprint
• Meet with product owners and operational business managers for selected modules to introduce scrum and program processes and outline expectations
• Support release cycle by facilitating Release Feature Selection meetings and organizing and monitoring eligible release candidates in VSTS.
• Identify common issues across teams (e.g. communication, UI consistency) and lead the implementation of new solutions
• Communicate team progress and dependencies with other team leads during scrum of scrums
• Interface with business, test, and user support teams to receive requirements information and forward updates on feature progress
• Review and provide feedback on drafted user stories and epics to ensure alignment with general Agile user story standards
• Create general Agile graphics and assist product manager and PMO with executive briefings
• Be an advocate for the Agile and Scrum methodology
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Technology, or similar
• 3 years of experience with IT projects, preferably as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach
• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or experience on an Agile / Scrum team
• Strong self-organization and self-management skills, with emphasis on self-initiation and follow through; interest in and affinity to create new projects and see them through to completion
• Experience with implementing scrum for large scale, complex systems
• Experience using Agile backlog management tool(s), preferably VSTS
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrated facilitation skills; ability to engage and energize team
• Strong organizational and creative skills, able to maintain composure in a challenging environment and promote a sensible and logical approach to issues
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to work well in a mixed team of government personnel and other contractors
• Able to work collaboratively with business analysts, developers, and testers and understand each trade and skillset
• Experience with full software development lifecycle (business process, requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, training) a plus

Security: Public Trust

Location: Washington DC

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