Senior Scrum Master

Description

Leidos is seeking a Sr. Scrum Master to support large-scale migration and operations on a large, high-profile DOD contract. The I3TS program provides enterprise-wide IT support to enable DTRA's Information Management & Technology Directorate (ITD) to consolidate, modernize, and continuously innovate the delivery of IT services and mission capabilities to DTRA's internal and external mission partners operating in CONUS and OCONUS locations.

The Scrum Master will lead one or more implementation teams that f. They will ensure projects are delivered on time and track and mitigate risks to cost and schedule. This role requires an experienced Agile Scrum Master to work on a large-scale implementation effort. They will be responsible for facilitating and managing agile teams working on modernization efforts for DTRA IT environment. They will help educate the teams in Scrum or Kanban to ensure that the agile processes are being followed. They will help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement. They will work with team members, other Agile Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, and support personnel to ensure that the team's commitments at the Program Increment (PI) Planning are met. They will facilitate horizontal communication across team members to identify any impediments that may prevent team progress while working mitigation plans.

• Responsible for facilitating self-organizing team(s) to ensure the team is making progress against Program Increment commitments.
• Removes impediments for the team and coordinates with team members to implement solutions.
• Supports and enforces Scrum processes and other rules.
• Ensures that the team has a clear understanding of Definition of Done and how to achieve it.
• Coordinates with other teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) and communicates status to management.
• Works with the Product Owner(s) to review and prioritize features.
• Leads and facilitates ceremonies to include sprint planning, sprint review, demos, sprint retro, and PI planning.
• Works with Product Owner(s) to develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria.
• Maintains and generates information radiators for the teams.
• Collects and shares team metrics with the team, determines when new metrics are needed, and develops improvements in metrics.
• Coaches' teams on agile and scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement
• Observes team dynamics, recognizes strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coaches the team as a whole driving improvement in productivity.
• Creates a fun sharing and learning environment, experimenting with various ideas to improve delivery including pair-programming and cross-functional training.
• Promotes teamwork to achieve sprint goals.
• Leads teams towards agile maturity.f

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Science, with 8 - 12 years' experience or Master's degree with 6 - 10 years of experience (additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree).
• Experience in working as a Scrum Master or Team Lead for a systems engineering, I.T. Support, or network engineering team.
• Experience using agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, VersionOne, Rallye, IBM RTC)
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, and time management skills are a must.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, across diverse systems and groups.

• Experience working with large software systems including hardware integration and test.
• Experience working within an Agile environment or program.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical development teams.
• Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology.
• Experience-affecting change in organizations working towards agile adoption.
• Experience with applying test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the team.
• Experience using Kanban to improve flow on support teams.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP)