Scrum Master

Description

Leidos is dedicated to making the world a safer place. This starts with helping our customers in the Defense Industry achieve their critical missions. Our dedicated Defense Group employees are solving critical challenges across the globe. At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers' success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably.

Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

The Non-Kinetic Effects Business Area, part of the Defense Sector at Leidos, currently has an opening for a cleared Scrum Master to work in our Beavercreek, OH office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the Air Force Research Lab, Air Force Lifecycle Management Center, and other DoD missions.

• Coach, mentor, and train team members in self-management, cross-skilling, transparency and living the Scrum Values of commitment, focus, openness, respect and courage
• Guide teams through a maturity journey starting with the foundations outlined in the Scrum Guide, understand and experience why the framework works and ultimately how and when to change their own processes to suit their needs while still achieving the principles of the Agile Manifesto. Encourage best engineering practice like Definition of Done, Coding standards and compliance, automation, pair programming, as appropriate.
• Schedule and Lead Daily Standup meetings for multiple teams (including development teams and a Scrum of Scrums with various stakeholders), schedule, plan and lead Retrospectives for multiple teams, facilitate Sprint Planning (along with Product Owners) and Sprint Reviews.
• Partner with the Product Owner to be mindful of short-term and long-term goals and applying approaches to help focus on solving the right problems at the right time then building solutions with iterative, experimental, customer-centric and data-driven activities.
• Help team leaders and stakeholders understand and enact empirical approaches for complex work.
• Facilitate the team's progress towards team's goals:
  Continuously challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity. Help the team focus on daily and iteration goals.
• Build a high-performing team:
  Focusing on ever-improving team dynamics and performance.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline with 4+ years of relevant professional experience (An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree)
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must have an active DoD Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI
• Certified Scrum Master required
• Experience working as a Scrum Master or Team Lead for a systems engineering, I.T. Support, or network engineering team
• Working knowledge of application programming, database, system design and well as web-based and client/server architectures preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline
• Experience in Agile coaching and leading team transitions and implementations
• Certified Product Owner preferred.
• Experience working with large software systems and application testing.
• Experience working within an Agile environment or program.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical development team.

Pay Range $73,450.00 - $

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