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TDI is seeking an experienced Agile Scrum Master to support a large-scale software and hardware integration effort. This role will collaborate with team members, fellow Agile Scrum Masters, and support personnel to ensure team commitments established during Program Increment (PI) Planning are met. Responsibilities include facilitating cross-team communication, identifying impediments to team progress, and developing mitigation plans. The Agile Scrum Master will also lead discussions to analyze and triage issues and identify and implement process improvements. Strong attention to detail and a focus on task completion are critical.
This is a fully onsite opportunity requiring a daily commute to the Washington, DC area. An active TS/SCI security clearance is required.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Facilitate self-organizing Agile teams to ensure progress toward Program Increment (PI) commitments and sprint goals while protecting against scope creep.
- Identify and remove team impediments, coordinating with the Release Train Engineer (RTE) or Project Manager to implement solutions as needed.
- Facilitate team communication, coordination, and collaboration across the Agile Release Train (ART), while providing status updates to management.
- Support and enforce Scrum processes, ensuring teams understand and meet the Definition of Done.
- Partner with Product Owners to review and prioritize features and develop User Stories that meet Feature acceptance criteria.
- Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, demos, retrospectives, and PI Planning.
- Maintain team information radiators and collect, evaluate, and share metrics to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles, assess team dynamics, and drive continuous improvement, productivity, and Agile maturity.
- Promote a collaborative learning environment through practices such as pair programming, cross-functional training, and knowledge sharing.
- Mentor junior Scrum Masters, providing guidance and coaching throughout project execution.
- Active DoD TS/SCI security clearance. Ability to pass additional customer suitability screening(s) prior to start.
- Current Security+ or equivalent/higher.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP).
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline with 8–12 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 6–10 years of relevant experience. Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Experience serving as a Scrum Master for a software development or other technical team, including experience with Agile project management tools such as Jira.
- Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and time management skills, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment across diverse systems and teams.
- Ability and willingness to mentor and train junior Scrum Masters.
The anticipated salary range for this position is $130,000 - $145,000. This range is a good-faith estimate and not a guarantee of compensation. Final compensation will be based on factors including experience, education, skills, geographic location, internal equity, market data and applicable contract requirements, and may fall outside the posted range.
Skills Required
- Active DoD TS/SCI security clearance
- Ability to pass additional customer suitability screenings
- Current Security+ certification or equivalent/higher
- Certified Scrum Master, SAFe Scrum Master, PMI-ACP, or similar Agile project management certification
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline with 8-12 years of relevant experience
- Master's degree with 6-10 years of relevant experience as an alternative education and experience path
- Additional relevant experience may substitute for a degree
- Experience serving as a Scrum Master for a software development or technical team
- Experience with Agile project management tools such as Jira
- Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and time management skills
- Ability to work effectively across diverse systems and teams in a fast-paced environment
- Ability and willingness to mentor and train junior Scrum Masters
What We Do
For over 20 years, TDI’s one and only passion has been delivering cybersecurity solutions to effectively manage the business of cyber. At the global vanguard of innovation, we created Cybersecurity Performance Management (CPM) and the industry-leading CPM platform, CnSight®. Combining CnSight® with our remarkable historical experience and our exceptional capabilities of cyber operations and compliance, we offer Managed Cybersecurity Performance, a first of its kind managed CPM offering. TDI’s CPM solutions mitigate risk, reduce ransomware, provide continuous compliance, improve cyber-ROI, and provide comprehensive instantaneous visibility into how an organization is performing against its cyber strategy, particularly for Boards of Directors. CnSight® is the industry-leading Cybersecurity Performance Management (CPM) platform which mitigates risk, reduces ransomware, provides continuous compliance, improves cyber-ROI, and provides comprehensive instantaneous visibility into how an organization is performing against its cyber strategy, so executives and Boards may effectively manage the business of cybersecurity– the result: reduced stress, better performance, less cost, and a true understanding of cyber investment. With CnSight® at its core, TDI’s Managed Cybersecurity Performance offering ensures strategic cyber goals are met to protect an organization’s investments, assets and reputation by reducing the risk of ransomware, lowering cyber insurance premiums, improving ROI, reducing legal and fiduciary liability, delivering actionable reporting to the Board and C-Suite, providing on-call advice, ensuring continuous compliance and providing subject matter expertise on the organization’s behalf in meeting with the C-Suite and the Board, dealing with auditors, and supporting budget decisions – the result: reduced stress, better performance, less cost, and a true understanding of cyber investment.
