Scrum Master

Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking an experienced, results-oriented, mission-driven Scrum Master in support a customer-facing program. This program is made up of multi-disciplinary engineers and software developers who apply an innovative approach to data ingest and transformation workflow. We are looking for a talented, innovative, and experienced individual to support an effort to increase the speed of data delivery for structured and unstructured data in support of national security objectives. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding executing IT systems and supporting transformations utilizing a SAFe Agile framework that promotes collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement. This is high visibility program, and we are seeking a results oriented self-starter. 

Responsibilities include:

• Facilitation of technical discussions, decision making, impediment resolution and conflict resolution

• Ensure transparency from Product Owner to scrum team by facilitating internal and external communication

• Perform continual assessment of the maturity of the scrum team and providing coaching and insight in support of greater maturity

• Commitment to continuous process improvement including active facilitation of reviews and retrospectives and incorporation of lessons learned for future sprints

• Schedule and facilitate scrum ceremonies (stand up, poker, planning, demo, retrospective, etc)

• Remove impediments to the development team’s progress

• Work with the product owner to refine and prioritize the backlog

• Responsible for planning of sprints based on backlog priority and development team velocity

• Assist in gathering of requirements and creation of user stories

• Ability to create team dashboards and other reports documenting work completed each Sprint

• Helping to establish the definition of done (Acceptance Criteria) for user stories

• Helps build high performing teams, responsible for leading Agile project coordination to support various upstream and downstream teams

• Serve as the servant leader for the team to ensure clear communication and organization of the team

• Engage stakeholders, contributors and technical resources to analyze user needs and resource limitations

• Communicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to backlog owners and stakeholders

• Track and produce key metrics (e.g., burndown, burnup).

• Other similar professional duties such as incident and change management reporting, release planning activities, and coordination with customer’s Change Management Board

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph

• Bachelors and 14 years or more experience; Masters and 12 years or more experience ; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more experience.   

  • Additional equivalent work experience can be substituted for a degree

• Certification: PMP or CSM

• Prior experience as a Scrum Master to drive Agile practices and execution for a set of Scrum/Kanban teams

• Working knowledge of SAFe, Jira, and Confluence

• Working knowledge of Enterprise IT Service Management tools such as ServiceNow

• Positive attitude, self-motivation, curious creativity, personal desire

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

We are approximately 26,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.