Scrum Master

Job Description

Primarily responsible for the Agile flow methodology of the entire team.

• Lead daily scrums and hold team members accountable for work, capturing updates in JIRA and Confluence to reflect progress and dependencies.
• Secondarily reports to the leadership team of PM, Chief Engr, Tech Leads.
• Assist program leadership in the successful and timely delivery of all deliverables by monitoring and managing the backlog or work.
• Proactively groom the backlog to simplify planning efforts.
• Lead TEMs to help the team break down work.
• Work with all team members in timely delivery of all CDRLs.
• Educate team on agile methodology (to include pointing) and support client leadership during Agile processes, providing outbriefs of progress as well as plans.
• Responsible to the entire team for managing the list of roadblocks and impediments (if any), attempting to find resolutions for them working with leadership.
• Translate requirements into epics, features, and user stories.
• Provide scrum reports, capacity, velocity, and lead Program Increment Planning activities.
• Work with client PMO to establish milestones and MVIs to ensure goals from leadership align with contract work/deliverables.
• Lead design sessions in prototyping new systems.
• Support user acceptance testing.
• Help to automate and streamline activities and user stories in JIRA to create efficiencies and process improvement.

5 to 10+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Scrum methodology
• Agile lifecycle and coordination of Scrums and other processes
• Agile Scrum Development and/or Kanban
• Using tools used in Agile/Scrum programs, such as Jira and Confluence
• Developing and maintenance of documentation, artifacts, and reports on sprints, epics, and milestones

• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

• Active TS/SCI with Poly security clearance is required

Compensation: $111,800 - $221,800 USD for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Vermont, the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland.