Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coach and lead an agile team within a scaled agile framework (SAFe)
  
• Facilitate team breakouts to plan work and create PI objectives during PI Planning
  
• Facilitate planning and execution of work during a Program Increment through sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos
  
• Facilitate backlog refinement by collaborating with the product owners and business analysts
  
• Track and remove impediments to improve agile team’s efficiency and effectiveness; reaching out to the larger organizational network for impediment removal; ensuring cross-team coordination
  
• Maintain relevant metrics to understand how well the team is doing and identify areas of improvement
  
• Perform capacity planning to help teams plan iterations and increments
  
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to manage dependencies and ensure consistency across teams
  
• Liaison with architects, cyber security SMEs, and other stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines
  
• Manage product releases and dependencies between teams and third parties or between assigned teams and other Scrum teams
  
• Support development of product roadmaps
  
• Coach the team to continuously improve and become a high performing team
  
• Develop new processes and refine existing processes to enhance quality and productivity
  
• Strengthen the presence of the team within the Agile communities of practice and actively contribute to the organization’s Agile Community
  
• Ensure appropriate staffing for assigned Epics and Features
  
• Schedule and allocate work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and business objectives
  
• Ensure product quality and timeliness of efforts.
  
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Required skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and seven years of related experience
  
• Certified Scrum Master or Certified SAFe Scrum Master with significant experience coaching Scrum teams
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  
• Strong Agile background, with a minimum of three (3) years’ experience leading teams using an Agile Scrum or Scaled Agile approach
  
• Understanding of all elements of software development including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release management
  
• Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong communication skills and work ethic; self-starter
  
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to pass an IT-1 background investigation.
  

Nice to have skills:

• SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, SAFe Practitioner, or any other Scaled Agile Certification
  
• Prior Oracle EBS Federal Financial Management experience supporting DoD
  
• Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite, information exchanges, data warehouse
  
• Experience with test automation techniques and tools
  
• Experience with building in software security (BSIMM, security touchpoints)
  
• Experience with continuous deployment models