You will work on a large-scale software and hardware integration effort and you'll be responsible for facilitating either one large, complex agile team, or several small agile teams as part of a larger Agile Release Train (ART) delivering value to the customer using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as the agile framework. You will help educate the teams in Scrum or Kanban to ensure that the agile processes are being followed; help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement; work with team members, with other Agile Scrum Masters, and with support personnel to ensure that the team’s commitments at the Program Increment (PI) Planning are met. You will facilitate horizontal communication across team members to identify any impediments that may prevent team progress while working mitigation plans; be responsible for sensing, determining, and leading discussions when issues need to be analyzed or triaged, and for making improvements in determining and implementing improvements to processes. Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion is critical.

Security Clearance requirement:

• You must possess an active TS/SCI with Polygraph to be considered for this role.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for facilitating self-organizing team(s) to ensure the team is making progress against Program Increment commitments.

• Protects the team from scope creep during execution of the PI.

• Removes impediments for the team and coordinates with the Release Train Engineer in implementing solutions.

• Helps team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate.

• Supports and enforces Scrum process and other rules.

• Ensures that the team has a clear understanding of Definition of Done and how to meet it.

• Coordinates with other teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) and communicates status to management.

• Works with the Product Owner(s) to review and prioritize features.

• Leads and facilitates SAFe ceremonies to include sprint planning, sprint review, demos, sprint retro, and PI planning.

• Works with Product Owner(s) to develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria.

• Maintains and generates information radiators for the teams.

• Collects and shares team metrics with the team, determines when new metrics are needed, and develops improvements in metrics.

• Coaches’ teams on agile and scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement

• Observes team dynamics, recognizes strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coaches the team as a whole driving improvement in productivity.

• Creates a fun sharing and learning environment, experimenting with various ideas to improve delivery including pair-programming and cross-functional training.

• Promotes teamwork to achieve sprint goals.

• Leads teams towards agile maturity.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and at least eight (8) years of relevant and related work experience

• 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 (PMI-ACP).

• Experience using agile project management tools (e.g. Jira, VersionOne, Rallye, IBM RTC).

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, and time management skills are a must.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, across diverse systems and groups.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline

• Experience working with large software systems including hardware integration and test.

• Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical development teams.

• Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology.

• Experience-affecting change in organizations working towards agile adoption.

• Experience applying test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the team.

• Experience using Kanban as a means to improve flow on support teams.

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