Scrum Master DoD secret clearance

Experience Scrum Master Opportunity

VETS, Inc., is looking to add an experience Scrum Master to our growing team. This is a permanent, full time opportunity with full benefits. Due to contract requirements, this position requires US Citizenship and a clearance. This opportunity is located at Scott AFB, IL.

The Scrum Master will:

• Coach and lead an agile team within a scaled agile framework (SAFe)
• Facilitate team breakouts to plan work and create PI objectives during PI Planning
• Facilitate planning and execution of work during a Program Increment through sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos
• Facilitate backlog refinement by collaborating with the product owners and business analysts
• Track and remove impediments to improve agile team's efficiency and effectiveness; reaching out to the larger organizational network for impediment removal; ensuring cross-team coordination
• Maintain relevant metrics to understand how well the team is doing and identify areas of improvement
• Perform capacity planning to help teams plan iterations and increments
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to manage dependencies and ensure consistency across teams
• Liaison with architects, cyber security SMEs, and other stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines
• Manage product releases and dependencies between teams and third parties or between assigned teams and other Scrum teams
• Support development of product roadmaps
• Coach the team to continuously improve and become a high performing team
• Develop new processes and refine existing processes to enhance quality and productivity
• Strengthen the presence of the team within the Agile communities of practice and actively contribute to the organization's Agile Community
• Ensure appropriate staffing for assigned Epics and Features
• Schedule and allocate work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and business objectives
• Ensure product quality and timeliness of efforts.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, and seven years of related experience
• Certified Scrum Master or Certified SAFe Scrum Master with significant experience coaching Scrum teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong Agile background, with a minimum of three (3) years' experience leading teams using an Agile Scrum or Scaled Agile approach
• Understanding of all elements of software development including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release management
• Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong communication skills and work ethic; self-starter
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to pass an IT-1 background investigation.

Desired Skills

• SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, SAFe Practitioner, or any other Scaled Agile Certification
• Prior Oracle EBS Federal Financial Management experience supporting DoD
• Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite, information exchanges, data warehouse
• Experience with test automation techniques and tools
• Experience with building in software security (BSIMM, security touchpoints)
• Experience with continuous deployment models