What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Discipline Engineer (Scrum Master) - NASA position at INNOVIM?
INNOVIM is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to support NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Evolution and Development 3 (EED-3) contract. The EED-3 team builds innovative tools allowing scientists and students alike to discover, transform, update, and improve the quality of Earth Science data in the pursuit of solving a wide range of environmental and socio-economic issues. The Senior Scrum Master plays a leading role in fulfilling the vision, driving the implementation of the Earth Data Cloud, and ensuring Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles, guidelines and core values are followed by the team. The top candidate will be skilled at not only ensuring timely and quality delivery of solutions to the customer but also inspires motivated high performing teams.
This position is remote based out of Annapolis, MD. Requires a U.S. Person. Quarterly travel for a few days is required for in-person SAFe PI Planning sessions.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- Coach the Agile team in using the SAFe methodology and Agile scrum practices
- Support the product owners and Agile teams to achieve customer satisfaction and business value
- Lead the Agile teams in self-organization; resolve conflicts; manage risk; and escalate when appropriate
- Facilitate team daily stand ups, demos, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog refinement; prepares the team for Planning Intervals (PI) and drives the team towards a committed PI plan
- Identify and remove impediments and coaches the Agile teams on removing impediments
- Design and implement team performance metrics and collaborates with ART leadership to implement ART metrics; drive towards data driven decisioning
- Help the teams to identify and drive improvements within the team and the ART
Required Skills:
- Previous experience leading an Agile team within the SAFe or Agile at Scale construct
- Ability to analyze and think quickly; resolve conflict; intellectually curious
- Solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and experience with successful Agile techniques
- Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills
- Ability to adapt to a changing environment
- Humble, empathetic and team oriented
- Working knowledge of Atlassian stack, specifically Jira and Confluence
- Working knowledge of AWS cloud services
Desired Skills:
- Good understanding of cloud engineering solutions and services
- Experience with implementing quality engineering practices (paired programming, test-driven development, etc.)
- Experience defining and visualizing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Required Education & Experience
- Must have a bachelor’s degree in a technical major, such as engineering or computer science, and 6 years direct experience as a Scrum Master
INNOVIM is committed to providing superior work in the fields of science, engineering, data analytics and technology to government agencies. We offer competitive compensation packages, including comprehensive nationwide Medical/Dental/Vision insurance programs, life insurance, matching 401k contribution and Educational/Training support.
