The Role
Facilitates Scrum and SAFe ceremonies, removes impediments, coordinates dependencies, and supports PI and sprint commitments. Coaches teams in Agile, Kanban, Lean-Agile, estimation, flow, and continuous improvement. Partners with Product Owners on backlog prioritization and acceptance criteria, tracks team metrics, improves delivery predictability and throughput, and mentors junior Scrum Masters. The role supports classified federal IT modernization programs across technical, operational, security, and customer teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
GCyber is seeking an Agile Scrum Master, to help support a mission-focused federal IT modernization effort that is building and integrating secure digital capabilities in a classified environment. The program uses an Agile delivery model and a technology environment centered on ServiceNow, Elastic, AWS, Red Hat, and supporting integration technologies such as Kafka. The Agile Scrum Master will facilitate one large, complex team or several smaller teams operating within a SAFe Agile Release Train, helping the teams meet Program Increment commitments and improve delivery flow.
As the Agile Scrum Master, you will:
As the Agile Scrum Master, you will:
- Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily coordination, reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, PI planning, and other SAFe events.
- Help the team maintain focus on PI and sprint commitments while managing scope changes through the appropriate process.
- Identify, remove, and escalate impediments and coordinate solutions with the Release Train Engineer, product leadership, and program management.
- Coach teams in Scrum, Kanban, Lean-Agile practices, Definition of Done, estimation, flow, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Coordinate dependencies and communication across teams on the Agile Release Train.
- Partner with Product Owners to refine and prioritize features and stories and create testable acceptance criteria.
- Maintain information radiators, collect meaningful team metrics, and use evidence to improve predictability, quality, and throughput.
- Observe team dynamics, strengthen accountability and collaboration, and mentor less-experienced Scrum Masters.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance
- Ability to obtain and maintain any additional customer suitability approvals required for the position.
- DoD 8570/8140 IAT II certification (i.e., Security+, CCNA-Security, CND, CySA+, GISCP, GSEC, SSCP)
- Early-stage flexibility with partial telework during initial development phases
- Full-time on-site presence at secure facility in Washington, DC will be required as the program matures
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively across technical, operational, security, and customer teams.
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline
- Eight to twelve years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience serving as a Scrum Master for a software development, systems integration, or other technical delivery team.
- Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe Scrum Master, PMI-ACP, or a comparable Agile certification.
- Experience with Jira or another Agile lifecycle-management tool and the ability to use metrics to improve team performance.
- Experience supporting SAFe Agile Release Trains, classified programs, federal modernization, ServiceNow, cloud, DevSecOps, or integrated software and hardware delivery.
- Experience coaching multiple teams, Product Owners, and junior Scrum Masters.
- Knowledge of Kanban, Lean flow, automated testing, CI/CD, and software quality practices.
Skills Required
- Active TS/SCI security clearance
- Ability to obtain and maintain additional customer suitability approvals
- DoD 8570/8140 IAT II certification, such as Security+, CCNA-Security, CND, CySA+, GISCP, GSEC, or SSCP
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline
- Eight to twelve years of relevant experience
- Experience serving as a Scrum Master for a software development, systems integration, or technical delivery team
- Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe Scrum Master, PMI-ACP, or comparable Agile certification
- Experience with Jira or another Agile lifecycle-management tool
- Ability to use metrics to improve team performance
- Experience supporting SAFe Agile Release Trains
- Experience with classified programs, federal modernization, ServiceNow, cloud, DevSecOps, or integrated software and hardware delivery
- Experience coaching multiple teams, Product Owners, and junior Scrum Masters
- Knowledge of Kanban, Lean flow, automated testing, CI/CD, and software quality practices
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The Company
What We Do
GCyber was founded to create innovative information technology solutions for the federal, state, and commercial markets. GCyber engineers have provided professional services supporting the information technology industry for over 15 years. Along with our engineering staff, we have relationships with partners, vendors, and analysts who have specialized expertise in the federal market. GCyber’s broad experience, focus toward execution with measurable results, and commitment to innovation provide responsive and long-lasting solutions to our customers. It is the mission of GCyber to always remain focused on our customer’s goals and improving their existing landscape. Our company accomplishes this by focusing on opportunities for innovation, while remaining mindful of industry successes and failures in the deployment of technologies. If your road map needs increasingly innovative solutions, GCyber can help you get there.
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