Scrum Master
Seeking a remote Scrum Master to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Cloud and National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) initiatives. The candidate must be forward-thinking and possess a passion for providing facilitation and guidance for agile teams that are rapidly delivering value to their customers, leveraging concepts of Agile SAFe, Lean, and Kanban.
Education Requirements: BS or higher in a technology-related field. MS/MBA is a plus.
Experience:
Required Skills:
- Certification: Scrum Master Certification
- Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills; prior experience working in a matrix and geographically distributed organization.
- Mastery in managing and facilitating across teams.
- At least 3 years of demonstrated Scrum Master experience, or similar technical role in a software development environment.
- At least 3 years of software delivery management covering all aspects of SDLC.
- 2 years of experience with Project Mgmt. Tools: MS Project, SharePoint, Jira, Office 365, Slack
- Demonstrate drive, initiative, and creativity.
- Logical, organized, and execution oriented.
- Pass a US Government Background Investigation
- Be able to obtain a security clearance
Desired skills:
- Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) preferred.
- Understanding cloud computing technologies, IT business drivers, and emerging computing trends and technologies.
- Additional Certification: CSPO Certification, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, Agile Project Management (e. g., Jira/Confluence/MS Project), AWS/MS Azure Certifications
Duties/Responsibilities:
The Scrum Master plays a critical role in an Agile Release Train of the Scaled Agile Framework. He/she is expected to act as a lean-agile leader, and team coach to deliver added value to the stakeholders. Prefer demonstrated experience in leading by example, instilling lean, agile practices, and guiding with the necessary system-thinking mindset to achieve higher productivity.
- Work with teams to facilitate and guide engineers and staff on agile practices.
- Mastery in managing and facilitation across teams.
- Drive cross team impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination.
- Collaborate with Product Owner and team to collectively plan cycles, team sync, backlog refinement, and continuous communications.
- Facilitate team events, coach the teams, and assist them to deliver added value by closely working with Product Owner and Enterprise Architect & Management.
- Identify and proactively work to remove barriers, influence decisions, and improve the entire delivery system.
- Help the team and ART end-users understand their impact on the overall picture of the decision-making process.
- Prepare and support ART PI Planning