Scrum Master

As a Scrum Master, you’re passionate about outcomes and supporting a development team that modernizes 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.

Collaborate with product owners, engineering leads, and chief architects 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.

5+ years of experience in a Scrum Master role or managing teams to meet stakeholder objectives 5+ years of experience gathering and documenting technical and business requirements Experience with Jira Experience 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 TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph Bachelor's degree in a CS or Engineering field Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification

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 Master’s degree in a CS or Engineering field Agile or PMI Certification

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs.

Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page. Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the…