Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Leads analysis within assigned Scrum Team to build and prioritize features, user stories, and identify team velocity.
• Works with Product Owners to identify priorities, participate in Sprint Reviews, Backlog Refinement, and lead team daily stand-up meetings.
• Works collaboratively among cross-functional teams and multiple vendors to execute timely releases of code.

• Provides business support to provide development and/or sustainment of a software environment that covers the entire Software Development Lifecycle using current methodologies to include Continuous Deployment, Agile, and Development Operations (DevOps).

• Addresses problems of systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platforms.
• Leads project team and coordinate with end users to identify application requirements.
• Performs feasibility analysis on potential future projects to management.
• Assists in the evaluation and recommendation of application software packages, application integration and testing tools. Resolves problems with software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements.
• Participates in development of software user manuals and technical reports.
• Provides support to the Chief Enterprise Architect, the Release Train Engineer (RTE), and Senior Leadership. Coordinate intra-team, external-team, cross-ART, and cross-functional cooperation to facilitate synergy and success across the Program.
• Assist the Govt. Product Owners in meeting their duties and responsibilities and managing the Product Backlog.
• Part of agile team working on unusually complex technical problems and provide product solutions in accordance with Agile Methodologies.
• Work independently or as a member of a project team responsible for providing technical guidance related to the business implications of the application of the system.
• Acts as a liaison between client and technical solutions/support groups, using strong communication skills to elicit, document, analyze and validate business processes and solution requirements.
• Supports requirements management and change management processes using structured techniques for documentation, analysis, evaluation/validation
• Provides decomposition of high-level information into details
• Distinguishing requests vs needs; distinguishing requirements vs solutions; classifying/prioritizing requirements
• Attends Program-Level Ceremonies and Reviews on behalf of the Scrum Team and brief Team status during Quarterly Program Increment Planning sessions.
• Creates and update user stories in Jira/Confluence.
• Submist weekly and monthly status reports and deliverables.
• Understanding of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) process, Kanban Framework, and Waterfall methodologies and how to utilize these within day-to-day activities.
• Produces high-quality papers, presentations, recommendations, and findings for senior government Intelligence and operations officials.
• Supports meetings with Govt. Product Owners and PMO Teams. Work closely with the team to determine and pursue courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.

• Requires 12 years with BS or 8 years with MS
• Familiarity with ticketing system, such as ServiceNow
• Utility Tools knowledge (JIRA/Confluence/GitLab/Artifactory).
• Strong leadership skills and ability to foster collaborative relationships with customers, teaming partners and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to resolve customer issues very quickly and accurately.
• Experience with software development (such as Java or Pega) and full-stack development
• Knowledge of IT standards, methodologies, system development life cycle and project management frameworks
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies (SAFe, Kanban, Scrum)
• CI/CD experience preferred.
• Experience in AWS Web Server, HTML, CSS, JS, Identify and Access Management (IdAM), API Gateway is preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate technical information.