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