What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Scrum Master position at Simple Technology Solutions?
At Simple Technology Solutions, our people are our priority. We know our team members are more than employees—they're parents, friends, volunteers, artists, and athletes. That's why we offer flexibility to help them thrive personally and professionally while delivering exceptional solutions to our Federal Government clients.
Our culture is built on collaboration, continuous learning, and excellence. We are mentors and thought leaders who share knowledge and foster growth. Recognized as a "Best Place to Work," we believe a range of perspectives helps us drive innovation and exceed customer expectations. At STS, taking care of our people isn't a perk—it's the standard.
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Simple Technology Solutions is looking for a Senior Scrum Master to add to our team.
Quick Position Overview:
- Bachelor's Degree is required
- Minimum of 6 years' position related experience is required
- This position requires a U.S. Person who is eligible to obtain any required Export Authorization
- All candidates must be able to pass a National Agency Clearance with Inquires (NACI) screening
The Role:
STS 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 provides Earth scientists and others access to data from NASA's Earth Science missions. The 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. As a member of the EED-3 team, the Senior Scrum Master will be the scrum master / team coach for two Platform Agile Release Train (ART) teams, a cloud security team and a cloud analytics team. 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.
The Senior Scrum Master at STS will:
- 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
Education and Experience:
Required
- Bachelor's degree in a technical major, such as engineering or computer science
- 6 years direct experience as a Scrum Master
- 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
- Must be able to work the hours of 8am-5pm Eastern Time regardless of your home location
Preferred 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)
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Salary : $58 - $79
