Scrum Master

Leidos

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The NISC IV program at Leidos is seeking a Scrum Master to provide specialized expertise in support of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) Office of Performance Analysis, Data Integration and Modeling Group. You will use your expertise in agile / scrum methodologies to develop software applications related to the operation and modernization of the National Airspace System (NAS). This support will also include innovative methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that support the transformation of NAS data into meaningful, useful, and actionable information to support business decisions.

Requirements

BA degree and 12 - 15 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with 10 - 13 years of prior relevant experience or if no degree, additional related work experience can be substituted.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
At least 5 years of recent experience working as a Scrum Master for a software development or similar technical team, preferably as a full time Scrum Master.
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).
Significant, hands-on experience using agile project management tools (e.g. Jira).
Excellent organizational and time management skills.
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.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience working as a technical contributor (i.e. software developer, system engineer, test engineer, etc.) operating 24x7.
Experience applying test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the team.

Responsibilities

Serve as an Agile leader on a complex software integration effort.
Facilitate one complex Agile team or multiple smaller teams.
Coach and educate team members in Scrum, Scrumban, or Kanban to ensure Agile practices are consistently followed.
Remove impediments and foster an environment of high-performing team dynamics.
Enable continuous flow and drive relentless improvement.
Collaborate closely with team members and support personnel to ensure the team’s commitments made during releases and sprints are achieved.
Facilitate horizontal communication to surface impediments.
Lead discussions to analyze and triage issues.
Champion process improvements.
Facilitate team(s) to ensure progress is being made against release commitments.
Protect the team from scope creep during execution.
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.
Work with Product Owner(s) and System Engineers to develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria.
Maintain and generate information radiators for the teams.
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.