Sr. Scrum Master TS/SCI with Poly REQUIRED

CGI•Arlington, VA

14h•Hybrid

About The Position

CGI is looking for an experienced Scrum Master to act as a servant leader and coach for the Agile team. The Scrum Master will help remove impediments and foster an environment for high performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement. The Scrum Master assists the Agile team in meeting their delivery goals and facilitates both team and program level events such as the Daily Stand up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, and Retrospective while ensuring compliance with the program's processes. The Scrum Master's responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision making processes, and eliminating team impediments. To be successful as a Scrum Master, you should have a firm grasp of agile practices and the ability to effectively manage and mentor development teams. An outstanding Scrum Master should have excellent interpersonal, time management, and problem solving skills. This position is located in our Arlington, VA office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) certification
3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar role.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills
Proven ability to balance concurrent activities.
Strong knowledge and experience in software development in an Agile or SAFe environment
Ability to quickly build rapport and keep a positive and motivated team environment
Active TS/SCI with CI poly required

Responsibilities

Coach the Agile team and program through Agile/Scrum ceremonies
Guide the team on how to maximize self organization
Ensure the team is self organizing
Assess the Agile Maturity of the team and coach the team to contribute to relentless improvement of the overall program
Remove impediments and coach the team to remove impediments
Build and maintain a high performing team by improving team dynamics and coaching the team in self management
Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Assist with internal and external communication, improve transparency, and radiating information
Support the Product Owner in managing the team backlog and foster a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope