Scrum Master

Title: Scrum Master

Location: Remote / Facilities in Kansas City, MO, or Washington, DC

Company Background

A P Ventures, LLC (APV) is an innovative Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) providing services to Government customers at the federal and state levels in three key focus areas: High-End IT Consulting, Emerging Technology and Training Solutions, and Human Capital Services. Established in 2007, APV has completed 70 prime contracts and currently oversees 25 task orders, consistently achieving high client satisfaction, CPARS, and customer accolades. Our success is fueled by our skilled and motivated workforce, reflected in our impressive employee retention rate exceeding 90%. APV has a wide portfolio of contracts and “Best-in-Class” contract vehicles, including GSA MAS, OASIS Small Business, and 8(A) Pool 1, CIO-SP3 SB & 8(a) across all functional areas, HCaTS, and several other industry-specific BPA and IDIQs.

APV is a mature company dedicated to quality and exceptional delivery to meet its clients’ missions. We understand personnel are an essential part of this. We hire the best and take care of the people who come to work for us. We continue to maintain employee satisfaction and have a high retention rate, well above the industry average for our small business peers. We do this through our corporate practice that emphasizes on employee satisfaction through the three “C’s” – Culture, Compensation, and Career Development.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure contractual obligations are met, discuss successes and issues with the customers and COR, work to determine solutions and resolve.
• Work with Product Owner (PO), Business Owner (BO) and other stakeholders to support strategic decisions.
• Conduct Sprint planning PO- User stories written and sized; acceptance criteria provided, Subtasks identified and assigned, Ad-hoc task time estimated and built in, as possible.
• onduct backlog refinement sessions w/PO prioritizing the work and providing acceptance criteria
• Facilitate PI Planning with PO/BO participation: PO prioritizes features, Team and PO define PI objectives.
• Participate in Governance and PI planning.
• Participate in Sprint/iteration and program increment alignment with the other contract.
• Plan and monitor budget and scope, prevent scope creep, providing detailed information on budgeting, including LCATS per contract, invoicing, and monthly Jira status reports to COR, PO, and BO.
• Respond to USDA audit requests with detailed information with fast turnaround on the program. historical and upcoming levels of effort, budget breakdowns, staff skill sets/technology capabilities, etc.
• Follow SAFe Agile approach.
• Apply a variety of technologies for the best solutions and performance.
• All other duties as assigned.

Experience Requirements:

• Experience and understanding of SAFe® and Agile methodology.
• Strong Experience of Agile Scrum principles and practices.
• Experience in Drupal 10 and large public-facing Federal sites, including solving complex platform delivery challenges.
• Experience of User-centered design with external customers.
• Experience with High Impact Service Provider sites (HISP Sites) in Federal such as with USDA.
• Experience with and Understanding of the rural customer base.
• Experience with cloud migration, support, and development.
• Experience working with and briefing executive and senior leadership at agency and bureau level.
• User/customer experience testing expertise with large samples.
• Experience of Delivering work products conformant with the revised standards of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
• Understanding of experience with application of Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government.
• Experience of Agile project management tools, such as Jira/Confluence.
• Knowledge of DevOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices.

Certification:

• Certification in Agile methodologies, like Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe certification.

Technology/specialized skillsets including, but not limited to:

• Project and ticket system - Jira/Confluence.
• Drupal (front and back end), PHP, API's, HTML, JavaScript, Symfony, Vue.js, jQuery, React.js, ElasticSearch, Python, Docker Rancher, azure, theming/pattern libraries, ANDI, SiteImprove, Google Analytics, Jira; Pattern libraries.
• USWDS principles, human centered design (HCD), content strategy, information architecture, UX, visual design, user experience research/analysis, SEO, HotJar, Optimal Workshop, Sketch, Invision, Adobe creative suite, design systems, etc.

 About A P Ventures

A P Ventures is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, or marital status. Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability candidates are encouraged to apply. Qualified military veterans are encouraged to apply.