Northrop Grumman is looking for an experienced Agile Scrum Master/Cyber Systems Engineer 4 with strong Agile Scrum delivery skills, support to division-level customer organization and project facilitation experience to work on a challenging program in Fairfax, VA.
The candidate will lead SAFe/Agile process ensuring predictable delivery of release. The selected candidate will be required to have a strong technical understanding of relationships, dependencies, and requirements of hardware and software components built within SAFe/Agile. Candidate works with SAFe/Agile practices, and experience delivering deployable software in short sprints/on-demand. The candidate should have excellent oral and written skills, as he/she will interface with the customer regularly.
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Roles & Responsibilities:
- Communicating status to internal and external stakeholders
- Facilitating Scrum events (i.e., grooming, stand-ups, retrospective, etc.)
- Acting as Scrum Master for one or more scrum teams with focus on guiding teams toward improving the way they work, facilitating sprint planning, retrospective and demos
- Assisting the product owner with management of product backlog
- Removing obstacles to enhance project team efficiency and effectiveness, including reaching out to larger organizational network for impediment removal; ensuring cross-team coordination
- Coordinating, participating, and supporting project meetings and reviews (formal/informal) including creating and reviewing briefing packages
- Identifying programmatic risks within project/program and across programs
- Researching and coordinating responses to corporate inquiries and managing the resolution of inter-program problems
- Ensuring coordination and information flow occur between projects and organization managers
- Maintaining relevant metrics that help the team assess progress and velocity
- Developer and stakeholder liaison; foster communication across engineering disciplines
- Ensuring appropriate staffing is assigned to scrum initiatives
- Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives.
- Developing new and refining existing process to enhance quality and productivity.
- Ensuring coordination and information flow occur between projects and organization managers
- Supporting customer project managers in creating, drafting and /or reviewing project documentation and plans, identifying inconsistencies
- Ensure deliverables meet all relevant quality and security standards
- Generating/reviewing formal review documentation and program briefs
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Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related STEM degree field and a minimum of 9 years' related experience. Additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Previous experience leading an Agile Scrum team at a fast-paced environment
- Technical experience with increasing levels of responsibility providing technical oversight, stakeholder management and participation, problem resolution
- Two (2) years of execution per iterative/agile development per Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with AgileCraft, Jira/Green hopper, Subversion, and/or GIT
- Experience developing, updating, and maintaining Certification and Accreditation (C&A) documentation
- SMC, AP, or SP certification
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