Agile Planner and Scrum Master

Booz Allen Hamilton•Arlington, VA

3d•Remote

About The Position

As a Scrum Master, you’re passionate about outcomes and supporting a development team that’s modernizing critical projects. You know the importance of Agile best practices and how to combat challenges early to get work done. We need an experienced Scrum Master like you to create solutions that will advance our development teams and the critical missions they support. On our team, you’ll coach a development team to their highest performance level, while ensuring the Scrum project is successfully progressed. You’ll ensure Scrum principles and approaches are understood correctly by the team and key stakeholders. Using tools like Jira, Confluence, and Trello, you’ll strengthen sustainable process improvements to help your team accomplish sprint planning, backlog management, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. In this role, you’ll directly impact defense missions by using Agile processes and tools to organize and execute the Agile process for a software development or engineering team. This is an opportunity to grow your experience in Agile Scrum processes, IT project management, and software development while successfully delivering project solutions that will improve national security missions. Work with us as we strengthen operational excellence for the defense industry. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

3+ years of experience serving as an Agile planner and Scrum Master on a software development or engineering team
Experience working with tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Agile tools
Knowledge of software development and development lifecycles
Ability to independently stand up and manage an Agile process for a development team, executing sprint planning, backlog management, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives using Agile tools
Ability to work closely with multiple groups of stakeholders to communicate complex technical concepts in non-technical terms, communicate challenges and risks, and make progress
Secret clearance
Bachelor's degree
Agile Scrum Master or SAFe Certification

Nice To Haves

Experience working with defense organizations, including the U.S. Air Force
Experience leading small teams of people
Knowledge of Agile product management
Possession of strong interpersonal skills
Top Secret clearance
Master's degree
Agile Project Management Certification

Responsibilities

Coach a development team to their highest performance level.
Ensure the Scrum project is successfully progressed.
Ensure Scrum principles and approaches are understood correctly by the team and key stakeholders.
Strengthen sustainable process improvements to help your team accomplish sprint planning, backlog management, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
Organize and execute the Agile process for a software development or engineering team.
Deliver project solutions that will improve national security missions.