hatch I.T. is partnering with Packaged Agile to find a Scrum Master. See details below:
About the Role:
As a Scrum Master at Packaged Agile, you will be an agile missionary supporting our client's delivery teams. You will help our clients achieve their vision and address challenges using your expertise and patience. You will uncover your client's success criteria and work closely with your Product Owner and Scrum team to improve.
We are proud to be a United States Small Business Administration (SBA) HUBZone certified company. Though not a requirement for this position, we strongly prefer candidates who live in an SBA HUBZone.
About the Company:
Packaged Agile is a boutique, agile and digital services-focused coaching and consulting company. We help our clients deliver measurable value and aspire to bring "good agile" to clients across the public and private sectors. We hire passionate people who believe in agility, understand how to meet people where they are, and treat them with respect while helping them succeed. And we want to hire people that see their continuous growth and improvement as a way of life.
Responsibilities:
- As a Scrum Master at Packaged Agile, you'll be responsible for helping their client Scrum Teams implement good agile practices focused on continuous improvement and delivering value to customers.
- Embrace your client's vision and goals, making them your own.
- Invest yourself in your client's product – understand what it is, how it works, and the value it delivers to customers and users.
- Facilitate effective Scrum events and events to drive development and improve processes.
- Design effective methods to keep remote team members engaged.
- Monitor the health of the Scrum team and adjust approaches as needed.
- Remove obstacles within the team's sphere of influence.
- Build trust and strong relationships with and among team members.
- Identify and explain risks in plain language. Provide mitigation recommendations.
- Lead Scrum and ad-hoc training to improve the team's skills.
- Advise the client and team on agile best practices
Requirements:
- US Citizenship status with the ability to pass a Secret clearance process with a US Government client
- 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
- 3+ years of business experience on IT software projects or products
- Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). SAFe Agilist or other SAFe certifications are strongly preferred
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification required. Multiple agile certifications are strongly preferred.
- Passionate about Scrum and continuous learning
- Significant experience with JIRA and Confluence
- Excellent facilitation skills
- Ability to maintain composure in the face of challenges
- Propose logical approaches to address issues
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to work well in a mixed team of government personnel and other contractors
- Experience with entire software development life cycle (business process, requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, training)
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Strongly preferred: candidates who live in an SBA HUBZone. (Learn More Here)
- Strongly preferred: Experience with SAP
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What We Do
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hatch I.T. is a specialized technology consulting firm connecting software, product, and data engineers with tech startups in emerging tech markets. We offer customized models that transform the way early-stage and high-growth startups scale. Our flagship programs include:
- Scale – technical consulting and recruiting services for high-growth startups
- Stride – technical strategy and consulting for early-stage startups
- hatchpad – an online community platform connecting startup technologists to network, learn, and advance in their careers
In true startup fashion, our roots can be traced to a garage in Leesburg, VA in 2013. While working with local startups, our Founder & CEO, Tim Winkler, realized that traditional staffing models didn’t align with the growth needs of startups. Working with those firms felt transactional and the costs were way outside a startup's budget. There was a need for a solution that was relational, community driven, and flexibly priced. With this in mind, hatch I.T. was formed, along with customized models that transform the way early-stage and high-growth startups scale.
Fast forward 8 years and 15 employees later, hatch has developed a platform that provides a roadmap to guide startups from MVP through all stages of growth. After proving this model with dozens of startups across DC, Maryland, & Virginia, we realized it was needed in all emerging startup markets.
If you’re a startup looking to grow your startup team, or an engineer looking for a career at an innovative tech company, connect with hatch I.T. today.
