Scrum Master

Booz Allen Hamilton•Chantilly, VA

8d•$62,000 - $141,000•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. On our team, you’ll coach a development team to achieve its highest performance level, while ensuring the team is meeting their PI and sprint goals. You will work on unusually complex problems, introduce leading-edge concepts, and provide highly innovative solutions to your team and key stakeholders. Using tools like Jira and Confluence, you’ll strengthen sustainable process improvements to help your team accomplish sprint planning and reviews. Work with us as we shape systems for the better. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

5+ years of experience with Scrum Master role or managing teams to meet stakeholder objectives
5+ years of experience with gathering and documenting technical and business requirements
Experience with JIRA
Experience in leading client delivery engagements and working with senior-level client management
Experience teaching technical teams, comprised of junior and senior team members, the basic Agile framework concepts
Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
Bachelor's degree in a computer science or engineering field
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of the project management framework
Knowledge of agency or intelligence community and IT infrastructures
Possession of excellent interpersonal skills, to successfully interact with clients, engineers, and managers
Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
Master's degree in a computer science or engineering field
Agile or PMI Certification

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Product Owner, Engineering Lead, and Chief Architect to ensure backlog quality, clarity, and prioritization.
Facilitate sprint ceremonies that produce consistent outcomes.
Promote and measure Agile metrics.
Collaborate closely with other scrum teams to align priorities, manage shared resources, and ensure consistent sequencing of work.
Gather and document technical and business requirements.
Ensure scrum principles and approaches are understood correctly by the development team and stakeholders maximizing the performance of the team.
Coach the scrum team to apply appropriate processes to create successful products.
Foster self-organization and collaborative scrum team sheltering the team from outside distractions to keep focus mainly on the agreed sprint goals.
Monitor and improve the scrum process and project progress helping solve impediments in the development process.