MID LEVEL SCRUM MASTER

Scrum Master

Location: Reston, VA

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Scrum Master will work with Agile teams often comprised of a mix of employees, outsourced consultant teams and contractors to successfully deliver features and continue to improve on the existing processes and culture of the organization. They will remove obstacles to the team’s process and facilitate Agile ceremonies.

Support the Product Owner through applying effective techniques for managing their product backlog, maintaining focus on delivering features while maintaining high quality.

• Collaborate with the Product Owner and team members to develop user stories and maintain a healthy product backlog.
• Teach the team to create clear and concise backlog items.
• Encourage the team to raise impediments, proactively seek out, and drive bringing resolution to those impediments
• Follow Agile best practices and recommend improvements to enhance effectiveness.
• Practice servant leadership supporting the needs of the team.
• Create and keep team information radiators updated and visible.
• Monitor relevant team metrics and continually analyze for continuous improvement recommendations.
• Foster open communication between team members, Product Owner, and other stakeholders.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education/Experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree is required
• Three to five years of progressively responsible work experience

Related Skills & Other Requirements:

• Hands on experience with Agile (e.g.: Scrum, Kanban, etc)
• Demonstrates expertise working with various Agile approaches (e.g.: Scrum, Kanban, etc)
• Demonstrate full knowledge of Agile practices
• Able to coach and mentor other Scrum Masters
• Contributes to the Agile Center of Excellence through the Scrum Master Guild
• Scrum Master for multiple teams (generally 2-3)
• Excellent communication skills
• Lead teams to be self-organizing
• Demonstrates competencies and skills related to servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Advanced verbal, presentation, facilitation, and written communication skills
• Demonstrates high level of analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong relationship building and influencing skills
• Knowledge of scaling Agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum of Scrums, SaFE, LeSS, and DaD)

Preferred, but not required

• Jira project and portfolio expertise
• Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and/or Certified Scrum Professional

Job Types: Full-time, Contract