Scrum Master

Leidos•Washington, DC

About The Position

The NISC IV program at Leidos is seeking a Scrum Master with Business Analysis and project management experience, to provide specialized expertise in support of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) application development effort. You will use your expertise in agile / scrum methodologies to develop software applications related to the operation and modernization of FAA applications. The selected candidate will support a fast-paced technical program that follows DevOps practices and leverages development, test, and production environments. The program delivers requirements, development, test, integration, and operational support, with a strong focus on introducing new technology, cloud integration and advanced capabilities. The Scrum Master will serve as an Agile leader on a complex software integration effort. She/he will facilitate one complex Agile team or multiple smaller teams and will coach and educate team members in Scrum, Scrumban, or Kanban to ensure Agile practices are consistently followed. The role includes removing impediments, fostering an environment of high-performing team dynamics, enabling continuous flow, and driving relentless improvement. The Scrum Master will collaborate closely with team members, and support personnel to ensure the team’s commitments made during releases and sprints are achieved. The candidate will facilitate horizontal communication to surface impediments, lead discussions to analyze and triage issues, and champion process improvements. Strong attention to detail and a disciplined focus on task completion are essential.

Requirements

Requires a BA degree and 8 to12 years of prior relevant experience
Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project
At least 5 years of recent experience working as a Scrum Master and project management for a software development project or similar technical team.
Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to handle multiple tasking and deadlines
Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP) and PMP
Significant, hands-on experience using agile project management tools (e.g. Jira).
Must have excellent organizational and time management skills.
Must have excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships and interface professionally with peers and leadership, including developers, engineers, testers, customer points of contact, and company management.
Must have experience developing business processes, SDLC documentation, developing user stories and customer test scripts.
Must have experience with federal government project FAA or DOT.

Nice To Haves

Experience applying or leading test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the team.
Knowledge of low code application development

Responsibilities

Facilitate team(s) to ensure progress is being made against release commitments.
Remove impediments and coordinate on implementing solutions.
Help team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate.
Coach, support, and enforce Scrum process and other process rules.
Ensure that the team has a clear, shared understanding of the Definition of Done and consistently meets it.
Clearly and concisely communicate status to management.
Work with the Product Owner(s) to review and prioritize features.
Lead and facilitate Agile ceremonies to include Sprint Planning and Sprint Reviews with demos, Sprint Retrospectives, and release planning.
Develop and update user stories, develop and update SDLC documentation.
Work with Product Owner(s) to develop user stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria.
Collect and share team metrics with the team, determine when new metrics are needed, and develop improvements in metrics.
Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles with the goal of continuous improvement.
Observe team dynamics, recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team member contributions, and coach the team as a whole to drive improvements in productivity.
Promote teamwork to achieve Sprint goals.
Lead teams towards Agile maturity.
Experiment with various ideas to improve delivery, including pair-programming and cross-functional training.