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Scrum Master

Helm Point Solutions
Helm Point Solutions Salary
Annapolis, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 12/28/2024
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/27/2025
Scrum Master

What you will be doing?
In this role, the Scrum Master will be supporting a large-scale software and hardware integration effort. The selected candidate will be responsible for facilitating either one large, complex agile team, or several small agile teams as part of a larger Agile Release Train (ART) delivering value to the customer using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The candidate will help educate and coach the teams in Scrum, Scrumban, or Kanban to ensure that the agile processes are being followed. They will help foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.  The selected candidate will work with team members, with other Agile Scrum Masters, and with support personnel to ensure that the team's commitments at the Program Increment (PI) Planning are met.

Specific skills needed to perform well in this role
  • Ability to facilitate self-organizing team(s) to ensure the team is making progress against Program Increment commitments.
  • Schedule/task manage to avoid scope creep.
  • Remove impediments for the team and coordinate with the Release Train Engineers in implementing solutions.
  • Encourage and promote communication, coordination, and cooperation across the team
  • Work with the Product Owner(s) to review and prioritize features.
  • Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies to include Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews to include demos, Sprint Retrospectives, and PI Planning.
  • Work with Product Owner(s) and System Engineers to develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria.
  • Maintain and generate information radiators for the teams.
  • Collect and share team metrics with the team, determine when new metrics are needed, and develop improvements in metrics.
What will you need for this job?
  • Clearance: TS/SCI with polygraph
  • Years Experience / Degree:
    • U) Six (6) years’ experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
    • Bachelor's Degree in a relevant discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Two (2) years of additional experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
    • Experience working as a Scrum Master for a software development or similar technical 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.
Certification: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP).

Labor Category: Program Team Lead 2

Labor Category requirements may vary with the level of experience and education.  The salary range listed below is inclusive of all levels associated with this labor category.

Job Type:            Full-Time, funded

Salary Range:    $182,500 - $200,000
The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location, contractual requirements and may fall outside of this range.

Citizenship:         Must be a U.S. Citizen

What will differentiate you from other candidates?
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and at least 8 (eight) years of relevant work experience.
  • Experience working with large software systems including hardware integration and test.
  • 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 applying test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the team.
  • Experience using Kanban as a means to improve flow on support teams.
About Helm Point:
Helm Point Solutions, established in 2007, is growing a woman-owned Cybersecurity & Physical Security Contractor located in Columbia, Maryland. We strive to make every employee belong, be heard and be successful in their career. This includes listening to your needs, providing rewarding and challenging opportunities, and offering tools to succeed in your current role while preparing you for advancement. We are looking for ambitious folks to join our team who want to help our customers meet their mission needs, love what they do, and be a part of a great organization.

​​​​​​​What Helm Point offers?
In addition to a rewarding career and an active leadership team, we offer a full suite of benefits including CareFirst Gold Medical Insurance, 401K Match, Profit Sharing, Employee Cash bonuses, Annual Education and Training Allowance, a leave buy-back program, and community engagement and support. A flexible work environment, uncapped career, and personal growth opportunities.

The advertised position may be used to fill multiple positions, if you have any interest in similar types of positions, please be sure to mention it in your application.

Helm Point Solutions, Inc. does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, protected veteran status, or other non-merit factor.

Salary : $182,500 - $200,000

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