GDI Scrum Master

Leidos•Saint Louis, IL

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Leidos Digital Sector is hiring a Scrum Master to support the Real-Time Network Visibility (RTNV) Capability portfolio on the Global Management System (GMS), under the Global Solutions Management – Operations II (GSM-O II) contract at DISA. The contract supports operations, sustainment, maintenance, repair, and defense of the Defense Information System Network within the DOD Information Network, as well as DISA’s operational transformation and mission partners. The role supports a large-scale software and hardware integration effort and requires daily, full-time onsite work at Scott AFB, Illinois. A DoD Secret clearance must be active at the start of employment. The Scrum Master facilitates one large, complex Agile team or several smaller teams within an Agile Release Train (ART), using SAFe. The role helps teams apply Scrum or Kanban, meet Program Increment commitments, remove impediments, communicate effectively, and continually improve. The Scrum Master partners with Product Owners and stakeholders to elicit, analyze, document, and refine business and system requirements, turning stakeholder needs into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria. The role also develops and maintains requirements and process artifacts and helps ensure delivered capabilities align with customer needs. The position requires U.S. citizenship, a bachelor’s degree with at least 8 years of relevant experience or a master’s degree with at least 6 years of relevant experience; additional work experience may substitute for a degree. A Scrum or agile project management certification and experience as a Scrum Master on a software development or other technical team are required. The listed salary range is $92,300 to $166,850; compensation is not guaranteed and may depend on factors including responsibilities, education, experience, skills, internal equity, and market data.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
Active DoD Secret clearance.
Ability to commute to Scott AFB, Illinois, for full-time onsite support.
Bachelor’s degree and 8 or more years of relevant experience, or master’s degree and 6 or more years of relevant experience; additional work experience may substitute for a degree.
Experience working as a Scrum Master on a software development or other technical team.
Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), or similar Agile project management certification, such as PMI-ACP.
Experience using Agile project management tools, such as Jira.
Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams and thrive in a fast-paced environment involving diverse systems and groups.
Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal communication, and time-management skills.
Willingness to continue developing skills with guidance from senior Scrum Masters.

Nice To Haves

Experience planning project milestones, due dates, communications, facilitation, documentation, testing and validation, and change-management support.
Experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies, removing operational impediments, protecting team focus, and helping Product Owners optimize backlogs for value delivery.
Experience organizing and planning requirements gathering and analysis, solution design, evaluation, and acceptance.
Experience facilitating development of use cases, user stories, process flows, data flow diagrams, and requirements traceability matrices.
Experience with business process modeling and improvement methodologies such as BPMN, Lean, or Six Sigma.
Experience facilitating requirements-gathering sessions and workshops with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Proven ability to bridge business or customer stakeholders and technical development teams.
Experience with JIRA, Git, and Confluence.
Understanding of ITIL Foundation or ITIL certification.
AWS cloud certifications.
Experience with large software systems involving hardware integration and testing.
Experience working with multidisciplinary technical development teams.
Experience using SAFe as an Agile development methodology.
Experience moving from a legacy application to a new application.
Experience supporting organizational change toward Agile adoption.
Experience applying test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality.
Experience using Kanban to improve flow on support teams.
Experience with DevOps or DevSecOps and CI/CD implementation.
Experience with DISA and DoD networks.

Responsibilities

Facilitate the team’s progress toward Program Increment commitments and protect the team from scope creep during PI execution.
Remove team impediments and coordinate solutions with the Release Train Engineer or Project Manager.
Help team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate; facilitate horizontal communication and mitigation planning across the team.
Support and enforce Scrum processes and rules, and ensure the team understands and meets its Definition of Done.
Coordinate with other Agile Release Train teams and communicate team status to management.
Work with Product Owners to review and prioritize features and develop user stories that meet feature acceptance criteria.
Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, demos, sprint retrospectives, and PI planning.
Elicit, analyze, and document stakeholder business and system requirements and translate them into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Support backlog refinement by ensuring requirements are complete, testable, and traceable to customer needs.
Develop and maintain process flows, use cases, data flow diagrams, requirements traceability matrices, and other supporting documentation as needed.
Liaise between technical teams and business or customer stakeholders to establish shared understanding of requirements and priorities.
Maintain and generate team information radiators; collect and share team metrics, determine when new metrics are needed, and improve metrics.
Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles, observe team dynamics, and lead continuous improvement and team maturity efforts.
Encourage teamwork toward sprint goals and foster a learning environment, including experimenting with approaches such as pair programming and cross-functional training.
Remain open to mentoring from senior Scrum Masters.