Scrum Master

Our team works with all disciplines within engineering design and development for a variety of complex and critical systems to support the US Naval Submarine Program. Our support includes program and project management, requirements management, process engineering, systems, hardware, test, simulation, and software engineering.

We seek a Scrum Master with a passion for coaching and empowering a large scrum team (or several medium-sized teams) to deliver high quality business and customer centric outcomes. The Scrum Master will nurture our Atlassian adoption and Agile mindset in the day to day team-space. The Scrum Master’s sphere of influence will include ensuring cross-functional collaboration is achieved and that key stakeholders are engaging as needed, establishing the Agile mindset and approach, assisting teams in planning work, and supporting prioritization.

Within our Department, we have established an Agile (and Atlassian) Center of Excellence (“ACE”) in support of a Digital and Agile transformation across our teams. Both are accomplished with the establishment of an Atlassian Data Center supporting consistent & continuous deployment across our development teams. Over time, each Scrum Master will play an influential part in maturing our community of users’ Agile practice to co-exist with the greater organization’s overall waterfall framework. We benefit from growing leadership alignment designed to enable the realization of the benefits of our digital and agile transformation. We hope to enable the organization to plan for and transform our products, experiences, processes, technology, and ways of working to deliver our customer unrivalled experience of exceptional service, value, and flexibility.

What you will do: As a member of our ACE Collaboration Services Team, the Scrum Master is the “Servant-leader”, “Situational Lead” and “Agile change agent” who partners with each team to provide effective coaching so the team may adopt the practice of the Agile mindset

• Assess the team’s agile maturity capacity and roadmap milestones to assist the team in such goals
• Focus on building agile-minded teams by effectively facilitating change and form the performing teams as they master Rapid Feedback and Incremental Value delivery
• Plan/organize and facilitate scrum activities/ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand up, demos, board reviews, and retrospectives
• Mentor and coach team members on core Agile values, principles, practices, and processes, regardless of Sprinting or Kanban
• Enable teams to become self-organizing and self-managing to achieve its goals, including help building trust with all stakeholders, including customers
• Maintain Jira and other information radiators (such as Confluence) and train the team in process adoption
• Identify and resolve impediments that slow development or prevent the team from meeting established goals or milestones
• Ensure the team’s “definition of done” is well defined on the story, sprint, and release levels
• Challenge existing processes and facilitate improvement practices, bringing a continuous improvement & Minimum Viable Product mindset to the team’s work
• Coach a continuous improvement mindset and recommend adjustments to established delivery practices, working agreements and team processes
• Assist with internal and external communication, and improve transparency
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on problem solving
• Drive collection of metrics and use of metrics in decision making and motivates teams to perform against capacity
• Publish necessary metrics (both team performance and product earned-value) for internal and customer-facing ceremonies and Program Increment reviews
• Over-time, participate in Scrum of Scrum meetings to ensure cross-team collaboration and coordination of release plans and integration of testing activities
• Over-time, share interest and effective capability in the establishment of Agile Scale-Readiness approaches to meet the demand of growing teams and complexity of cross-team content strategy

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher
• 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Product Owner or Agile Coach involved in Agile Transformation
• Scrum Master or PMI-ACP certification (to compliment seniority level or years of experience)
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance

Preferred:

• Experience working with customers in gathering requirements, modeling use cases, writing user stories, and documenting business processes

Skills

• “Do it, try it, fix it” mentality and comfort asking that of others
• Excellent people management skills: listening, motivating, observing, giving and receiving feedback to help individuals and teams grow
• A knowledge of the software development lifecycle process and experience managing teams through inception to production
• A knowledge of Agile methodologies within Scrum at scale, and experience implementing
• A working knowledge of Jira and CNFL as a front-end administrator