Scrum Master - Mid-Senior Levels - (14-20+ Years Experience)

Prodigy One, LLC. is a software engineering and consulting firm providing more than 45 years of service to state and federal customers. By combining unparalleled experience and capabilities, our company provides big data, cloud development, and enterprise management solutions. We are focused on product usability and end user presentation to help our customers make the best decisions possible. Given our length of service in the industry, Prodigy One knows the importance of a competitive salary and benefits package. That's why our total compensation package can be tailored to meet employees personal needs. 


A CLEARANCE IS REQUIRED TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE
Clearance required: Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph

Location: Annapolis Junction, MD

Seeking Mid to Senior/Principal levels

Salary Information

• Level 2 - 14 yrs of experience BS degree or additional 5 yrs of experience   

• Level 3 - 20 yrs of experience BS degree or additional 5 yrs of experience 

Job Description

This role requires an experienced Agile Scrum Master to work on 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 Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as the agile framework. She/he will help educate the teams in Scrum or Kanban to ensure that the agile processes are being followed. She/he will help remove impediments and 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. She/he will facilitate horizontal communication
across team members to identify any impediments that may prevent team progress while working mitigation plans. The selected candidate will be responsible for sensing, determining, and leading discussions when issues need to be analyzed or triaged, and for making improvements in determining and implementing improvements to processes. Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion is critical.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for facilitating self-organizing team(s) to ensure the team is making progress against Program Increment commitments.
• Protect the team from scope creep during execution of the PI.
• Remove impediments for the team and coordinate with the Release Train Engineers in implementing solutions.
• Help team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate.
• Support and enforce Scrum process and other rules.
• Ensure that the team has a clear understanding of Definition of Done and how to meet it.
• Coordinate with other teams on the Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and communicate status to management.
• Work with the Product Owner/s to review and prioritize features.
• Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies to include sprint planning, sprint review, demos, sprint retro, and PI planning.
• Work with Product Owner/s 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.
• Coach teams on agile and scrum principles with the goal of continuous improvement.
• Observe team dynamics, recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coach the team as a whole to drive improvements in productivity.
• Create a fun sharing and learning environment, experiment with various ideas to improve delivery, including pair-programming and cross-functional training.
• Promote teamwork to achieve sprint goals.
• Lead teams towards agile maturity.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience working as a Scrum Master for a software development or similar technical team or teams.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP).
• 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.

Benefits:

• Healthcare for Employee and Spouse and/or Children that is fully funded by Prodigy One
• 10% Employer Contribution to 401K; Immediately Vested
• 7 Weeks Paid Time Off (PTO)
• $2500 for Professional Development

Prodigy One, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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