Job Requirements
Colorado Springs, CO
Secret Polygraph Unspecified
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$126,000 - $143,000
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
Job Requirements:
Desired Competencies:
Clearance Requirements:
- Serve as the Scrum Master for one or more cross-functional Agile development teams.
- Facilitate daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint reviews/demos, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and other Agile ceremonies.
- Coach team members, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Scrum principles, Agile practices, and continuous improvement.
- Promote self-organization, accountability, transparency, and collaboration within Agile teams.
- Identify, track, and remove team impediments and blockers.
- Escalate issues that cannot be resolved at the team level and coordinate with program leadership as necessary.
- Work closely with Product Owners to maintain healthy, prioritized, and actionable product backlogs.
- Help teams develop realistic sprint goals, commitments, and delivery plans.
- Monitor sprint progress, team capacity, velocity, burn-up/burn-down trends, and other relevant Agile metrics.
- Identify delivery risks and work with technical and program leadership to develop mitigation strategies.
- Coordinate dependencies between software, systems engineering, modeling and simulation, integration, and test teams.
- Facilitate communication between development teams and external stakeholders.
- Support planning and execution across multiple Agile teams when program-level coordination is required.
- Maintain Agile boards, dashboards, metrics, and program documentation using tools such as Gitlab, JIRA and Confluence.
- Ensure sprint and release information is accurately communicated to stakeholders.
- Support release planning, increment planning, and coordination of major software deliveries.
- Facilitate technical demonstrations and sprint reviews for government and program stakeholders.
- Help teams identify and implement process improvements that increase quality, productivity, and predictability.
- Identify recurring issues, bottlenecks, and organizational impediments and drive corrective actions.
- Promote engineering best practices, quality standards, automation, and continuous integration within the team's development process.
- Support risk, issue, action, and dependency tracking.
- Coordinate with Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Test & Evaluation, Configuration Management, and Program Management organizations.
- Assist with program planning, status reporting, and milestone tracking as needed.
- Support preparation for customer meetings, program reviews, technical interchange meetings, and demonstrations.
- Maintain appropriate documentation and records required by the program.
- Help ensure Agile processes remain aligned with contractual, security, quality, and organizational requirements.
- Support additional program and Agile transformation activities as assigned.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 3-7 years of experience working in Agile software development or engineering environments.
- Demonstrated experience serving as a Scrum Master for software or systems engineering teams.
- Strong knowledge of Scrum, Agile, and Lean principles and practices.
- Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and working with cross-functional engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and remove impediments.
- Experience managing team dependencies, risks, issues, and delivery commitments.
- Experience with Agile project-management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Rally, or similar platforms.
- Strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, technical leadership, program management, customers, and government stakeholders.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, technically complex environment.
- Ability to work independently while also functioning effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to obtain and maintain any required security clearance.
- U.S. citizenship may be required due to the nature of the work and access to classified information.
Desired Competencies:
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), PMI-ACP, or equivalent Agile certification.
- Experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD) programs.
- Experience working with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Space Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, or other defense organizations.
- Experience supporting modeling and simulation (M&S) programs.
- Experience with software-intensive defense programs.
- Experience supporting programs involving missile defense, command and control, sensors, tracking, threat systems, or related mission areas.
- Experience with SAFe, Scrum@Scale, LeSS, or other scaled Agile frameworks.
- Experience coordinating Agile activities across multiple teams or Agile Release Trains.
- Experience with Program Increment (PI) Planning and execution.
- Experience with Agile Release Train (ART) environments.
- Experience with DevSecOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environments.
- Familiarity with software development practices including automated testing, configuration management, and continuous integration.
- Experience working in classified environments.
- Experience supporting requirements management, systems engineering, verification, and validation activities.
- Familiarity with government acquisition and defense program processes.
- Experience preparing and presenting Agile metrics and program status to senior leadership and government customers.
Clearance Requirements:
- Active DoD Secret Clearance
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