ME00532-Senior Scrum Master

Momentum Engineering, Inc. fosters an employee-centric culture. Our strength lies in our people. With a high percentage of employees holding advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, and related disciplines, we bring deep technical expertise to every mission. Our team includes professionals with security clearances and full-scope polygraphs, ensuring trusted, secure support for the most sensitive national security initiatives. Additionally, our workforce is equipped with industry-leading certifications, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and excellence. Most importantly, our exceptional employee retention rate reflects a culture of professional growth, mission focus, and dedication-ensuring long-term stability and expertise for our customers' critical needs.

Job Summary

• The Scrum Master role requires an experienced Agile Lead/Scrum Master to work on a large-scale software and hardware integration effort
• The selected candidate will 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 the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• The selected candidate will help educate and coach the teams in Scrum, Scrumban, or Kanban to ensure that the agile processes are being followed
• The selected candidate will 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

Primary Responsibilities

• Facilitate self-organizing team(s) to ensure progress is being made against Program Increment (PI) commitments
• Protect the team from scope creep during execution of the PI
• Remove impediments and coordinate with the Release Train Engineers on implementing solutions
• Help team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate
• Coach, support, and enforce Scrum process and other process rules
• Ensure that the team has a clear understanding of the Definition of Done and how to meet it
• Coordinate with other teams on the Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and communicate status to management.
• Work with the Product Owner(s) to review and prioritize features
• Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies to include Sprint Planning and Sprint Reviews to include demos, Sprint Retrospectives, and PI Planning
• Work with Product Owner(s) and System Engineers to develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria
• Maintain and generate information radiators for the teams
• Collect and share team metrics with the team, determine when new metrics are needed, and develop improvements in metrics
• Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles with the goal of continuous improvement
• Observe team dynamics, recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team member contributions, and coach the team as a whole to drive improvements in productivity
• Promote teamwork to achieve Sprint goals
• Lead teams towards Agile maturity
• Create a fun, sharing, and learning environment
• Experiment with various ideas to improve delivery, including pair-programming and cross-functional training

Required Qualifications

• Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph (CCAs accepted)
• At least 5 years of experience working as a Full Time Scrum Master for a software development or similar technical team
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP)
• Significant, hands-on experience using agile project management tools (e.g. Jira, VersionOne, Rallye, IBM RTC)
• At least 4 years of experience working on a large technical program, with varied and diverse systems and groups in a fast-paced, always rapidly evolving environment
• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and time management skills

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field
• 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 using Kanban as a means to improve flow on support teams
• 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

Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate's experience and qualifications.

The pay range for this role is:

155,000 - 210,000 USD per year (AJ6)