What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at NT Concepts?
NT Concepts is seeking a Scrum Master to join our team. Working at NT Concepts means that you are part of an innovative, agile company dedicated to solving the most critical challenges in National Security. We’re looking for the best and the brightest to join us in supporting this mission. If meaningful work, initiative, creativity, and continuous self-improvement are important to your career, join our growing team and discover What's Next for you.
Mission Focus: This program will provide support to the Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) Training & Evaluation Directorate. You will be on the ground floor of developing a testing program of record whose aim is to provide a comprehensive suite of integrated testing tools which can be deployed widely across the Department of Defense enterprise to address key T&E gaps. In particular, you will support the testing of AI system performance, cybersecurity, adversarial resilience, and explainability.
Clearance: US Citizenship required
Location/Flexibility: This work shall be performed onsite in Falls Church, VA and Arlington, VA. Remote work is permitted with several in person meetings per month required
Travel: May include deployment to hazardous duty areas. May include frequent flights for tasking at remote locations in support of US Government exercises and operations.
Responsibilities:
As a Scrum Master you will:
- Coaching the team on Scrum principles and best practices
- Lead daily stand-up meetings, reviews, demos, and other project-related meetings
- Facilitate open discussion and conflict resolution
- Proactively identify and resolve issues
- Update activities in a project management tracking tool
- Support program manager on budget, scheduling, operations, and project execution decision making.
- Plan project budget and funding execution across agile schedules
- Create work breakdown structures (WBS) for software projects
- Create and ensure consistent alignment to project scope
- Create and consistently track project schedules and Gantt charts, following agile best practices
- Coordinate operations of project event planning and technical demonstrations
- Serve as liaison between the product owner, development team, and management in order to ensure that all targets and requirements are met.
- Ensure that team members understand project objectives. Maintain product backlog and release plan and facilitate productivity by setting up meetings and removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the team's sprint goals.
- Preserve flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes. Is the facilitator for an agile development team.
- Responsible to ensure a quality product with business value for the customer is delivered on time
Required Qualifications:
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) from Scrum.org
- 5-7 years of combined project and scrum master experience.
- Proven experience with agile techniques and practices for software development
- Experience supporting supporting the assessment of AI system performance, cybersecurity, adversarial resilience, and explainability
- Demonstrated experience working with multiple specialties in a "one-team" environment.
- Experience across a variety of technical disciplines.
- Problem solving and conflict resolution ability
- Demonstrated leadership qualities through prior experience working with management to find solutions for customers and coaching teams on agile development best practices
- Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Advanced level proficiency in MS Office Suite
- Working knowledge of project management concepts and principles.
- Willingness to travel outside the United States
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting DoD programs
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Must be able to lift up to 10-15 pounds at times