What are the responsibilities and job description for the Team Lead / Scrum Master position at TCG?
You've stumbled upon the rare B Corp government contractor! At TCG, we aim to prove that businesses can be good to their employees and responsible to their community while being profitable. We're an award-winning IT solutions provider to the Federal government seeking a Team Lead/Scrum Master in anticipation of a new award.
US Citizenship is required for this role. In addition, the selected applicant must submit to a government background investigation and be favorably adjudicated before their first day.
This position is primarily remote but will require occasional in-person meetings. The selected applicant must live within commuting distance of Washington, D.C.
The Team Lead/Scrum Master ensures a true Scrum process over the course of a project by holding together the Scrum framework and facilitating the process for the organization, product owner, and scrum team.
Responsibilities
Our B Corp mission is reflected in our benefits, including offerings like health care, 401K, parental leave, adoption assistance, financial planning services, student loan repayment assistance, and training budget. There's more, see for yourself.
TCG is recognized for treating employees well, in fact, in 2024 The Washington Post named TCG as a "Top Workplace" for the tenth straight year based on how our employees feel about the company, the benefits TCG offers, and the work/life balance that our staff achieves. Our CEO was ranked best, by TCG employees' votes, among all midsize companies in the Washington Post Top Workplace survey.
Try us ... we'll make you happy.
Internal title/grade: Scrum Master, E3
Salary Range: $105,000 - $132,000
All individuals being hired to work for TCG must submit to, and successfully pass, a pre-employment background investigation prior to reporting for their first day of work. The pre-employment background investigation will include verification of employment and education, as well as, a criminal and DMV check.
Additional documentation and background checks will also be required for positions that require clearance from the Federal government.
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US Citizenship is required for this role. In addition, the selected applicant must submit to a government background investigation and be favorably adjudicated before their first day.
This position is primarily remote but will require occasional in-person meetings. The selected applicant must live within commuting distance of Washington, D.C.
The Team Lead/Scrum Master ensures a true Scrum process over the course of a project by holding together the Scrum framework and facilitating the process for the organization, product owner, and scrum team.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a liaison (POC) between customers, stakeholders, and cross functional development teams
- Lead all development/product activities, including updates to each sprint on the development roadmap based on the Product Owner's feedback and preparation for sprint activities (e.g. review of user stories)
- Report sprint, release, and project status to the Program/Project Manager and other Tech leads, and provide input on project plans, schedules, and risk management.
- Contribute to PI planning, product roadmap development, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and product demonstrations.
- Collaborate with product owner(s) to establish and/or improve requirements management standards.
- Lead requirements analyses and translation of business requirements into user stories; and lead communication with stakeholders and development teams to validate requirements, development options and limitations.
- Manage user stories including details and acceptance criteria that is understandable by all stakeholders. (product owners, development teams, etc.)
- Ensure estimates are generated and captures data for adjusting forecasts.
- Ensure the team's process is followed, including facilitating team ceremonies, resolving conflict, and addressing issues.
- Maintain expert business domain knowledge for assigned product(s).
- Provide support to product testing activities.
- Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
- Conduct requirements-gathering sessions with end-users
- Support Agile-based SDLC for software development creating necessary standards, tools, and best practices
- Minimum of 6 years of professional experience eliciting business, functional, and customer requirements informing the design of backend and front-end system components; and product owners and other business stakeholders to understand their needs and translate the needs to development teams
- Demonstrated experience working with Agile, and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, especially those that support scaling Agile to an enterprise such as the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Demonstrated experience in using an Agile development framework including task estimation, test automation, deployment automation and Continuous Integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality.Strong working knowledge of Agile/SCRUM methodology and documentation
- Experience interpreting and prioritizing customer feedback from multiple sources and developing Agile documentation, including user stories, system requirements, and use cases
- Experience creating user acceptance testing, online help, release notes, end user communication, and training documentation
- Experience using Microsoft Office, including Word, PowerPoint, Visio, and SharePoint.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to effectively lead working groups; and facilitate communication and collaboration with business stakeholders, ACIOs and customers
- Demonstrated ability to support the management of technology scope and risks
- Demonstrated experience ensuring that the technical expectations of deliverables are met through Agile processes; additionally, support the continuous improvement of those processes
- Demonstrated experience delivering Agile software solutions using best practices such as TDD or Adaptable Software Design
- Professional, client-ready written and oral communication skills
- Ability to hold team members accountable, set clear sprint performance standards, resolve sprint performance issues, keep the team engaged and on task
- Results Driven (prioritizing, taking initiative, taking ownership) team leadership (demonstrating teamwork, influencing others, interacting with others, maintaining composure, motivating others, providing direction and leadership, dealing with stress)
- Scrum Master certification
- Bachelor's degree preferred, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Experience may be substituted in absence of a degree.
Our B Corp mission is reflected in our benefits, including offerings like health care, 401K, parental leave, adoption assistance, financial planning services, student loan repayment assistance, and training budget. There's more, see for yourself.
TCG is recognized for treating employees well, in fact, in 2024 The Washington Post named TCG as a "Top Workplace" for the tenth straight year based on how our employees feel about the company, the benefits TCG offers, and the work/life balance that our staff achieves. Our CEO was ranked best, by TCG employees' votes, among all midsize companies in the Washington Post Top Workplace survey.
Try us ... we'll make you happy.
Internal title/grade: Scrum Master, E3
Salary Range: $105,000 - $132,000
All individuals being hired to work for TCG must submit to, and successfully pass, a pre-employment background investigation prior to reporting for their first day of work. The pre-employment background investigation will include verification of employment and education, as well as, a criminal and DMV check.
Additional documentation and background checks will also be required for positions that require clearance from the Federal government.
Job Posted by ApplicantPro
Salary : $105,000 - $132,000
