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SCRUM MASTER AND BUSINESS ANALYST

LOCATION: Springfield, VA

CLEARANCE LEVEL: TS/SCI w/CI Poly

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as Scrum Master for a development team delivering a cloud-based financial management application for ingesting and analyzing cloud costs.
• Develop, maintain, and foster adoption of documented team processes to assist Product Owners, developers, and engineers in adherence to cadence and integration within Release Train.
• Work closely with the product owner to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable tasks for developers
• Assign and delegate tasks appropriately, ensuring the team's work aligns with priorities and the overall schedule and ensuring the team is fully deployed and not idle
• Conduct and/or participate in the various SaFE Agile rituals as designed and implemented at this customer
• As a business analyst, understand the customer's objectives for the product, the business logic/rules/constraints, and become an expert on the required data flows and analytics to produce the required reports and dashboards
• Participate in the QA/validation of the output of the system to ensure data was processed and analyzed correctly
• Have the communication and interpersonal skills to interact across the contractor and customer teams
• Have the communication and interpersonal skills to adjust to changing requirements and direction quickly and effectively, while promoting change across the entire team
• Serve as a SaFE Agile mentor, teacher, and leader to provide lift to the entire team
• Bring years of community knowledge and experience to serve as the focal point for customer interactions and know how to listen and communicate with our customer

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Working knowledge of SAFe or Agile methodologies
• Familiarity with DevSecOps
• Basic understanding of AWS services and its billing reports
• Basic understanding of OpenShift and how it allocates and consumes resources
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong skills with Excel and/or databases
• Self-starter with little need for oversight
• Thorough understanding of the Systems Engineer lifecycle and change management process
• Team player - comfortable remaining flexible in integrating multiple perspectives
• Leadership – ability to lead teams and projects to reach business goals
• Time Management – effective use of time based on business needs
• Decision Making – can work independently to make decisions, as well as collaborate with peers in to gain consensus
• Comfortable identifying and escalating issues to upper management as appropriate
• Process-oriented - committed to process improvement (and documentation) at all levels
• Communication Proficiency – executive command of business writing and etiquette
• Organizational Skills – can balance multiple (often competing) priorities in a results-driven approach
• Context – ability to visualize the big picture and lead integrated projects to desired outcome
• Effective use of computer and business software tools
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work and communicate with all levels of management, individual contributors and the customer

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree or ten years' experience in a finance or accounting field with at least 3 years tracking/analyzing cloud and/or other IT costs
• AWS Experience with C2S (AWS)
• Experience in the use of AWS Cost Explorer
• Experience with AWS Trusted Advisor Reports to increase optimization
• Experience with Microsoft Excel for reports (CVS exports into Excel)
• Experience with Microsoft PowerPoint for monthly reports
• Experience with rightsizing and swapping instance types/sizes within AWS environment (optimization)
• Experience with scripting for data scrapes (in conjunction w/Chargeback)
• Experience with Cross Domain data transfers (to move reports across domains)

• Master's degree or fifteen years' experience in a finance or accouting field with at least 5 years tracking/analyzing cloud costs
• AWS Cloud Practitioner certification or higher
• Strong knowledge of agile project management tools such as Atlassian, GitLab, other.