Scrum Master, Mid

Booz Allen Hamilton•Herndon, VA

3d•Remote

About The Position

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to impact the National Security Space Sector? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer focused engineering solution. As a Scrum Master, we are looking for you to solve complex problems and shape national security space systems by leading agile systems engineering and integration efforts. Your customer will trust you to not only design and develop these systems, but also evolve them with advanced technology solutions. You will champion Agile principles across the program, facilitating Scrum events, coaching team members, and ensuring clarity in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and delivery activities. Working closely with Product Owners and technical leads, you will help translate mission needs into actionable user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs. You will identify impediments, remove blockers, and ensure alignment between development activities and stakeholder expectations. Grow your skills by merging systems engineering, software development, and agile adoption of cloud technologies to create a resilient ground system infrastructure for space domain awareness across national security space programs. Join our team and create the future of Intelligence Community space programs. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

Knowledge of Agile and Scrum principles
Knowledge of scrum roles, events, artifacts, and empirical process control
Knowledge of Agile tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, or VersionOne
Knowledge of software development or systems engineering processes used on DoD or IC programs
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or 4+ years of experience with Agile development in lieu of a degree

Nice To Haves

Experience with coaching, including helping mature Agile practices, improving velocity, team dynamics, and delivery flow
Knowledge of the Intelligence Community
Ability to collaborate with product owners and engineering leads, including helping refine backlog items, prioritizing work, and improving delivery
Possession of excellent organizational skills
Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
Scrum Master Certification, including CSM, PMI‑ACP, or SAFe Scrum Master Certification

Responsibilities

Champion Agile principles across the program, facilitating Scrum events, coaching team members, and ensuring clarity in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and delivery activities.
Translate mission needs into actionable user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs.
Identify impediments, remove blockers, and ensure alignment between development activities and stakeholder expectations.
Lead agile systems engineering and integration efforts.
Run standups, retrospectives, reviews, and remove impediments.