Scrum Master

General Dynamics Information Technology
Indianapolis, IN, United States
about 2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Compensation
$93,500.0 - $126,500.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Agile Methodology Scrum Methodology VersionOne

Job description

Own your opportunity to turn collaboration and Agile principles into measurable outcomes for our customers’ most complex challenges. As a Scrum Master Agile Delivery Facilitator, you’ll enable effective team performance, guide continuous improvement, and ensure delivery success. Here, you’ll see the bigger picture on mission initiatives and where your Agile leadership career can go at GDIT.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As a Scrum Master, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of USPS. You will play a crucial role in enabling the optimization of business functions at USPS. As a Scrum Master Agile Delivery Facilitator, you will guide multiple development teams to maintain clear sprint goals, manage cross-team dependencies and continuously improve delivery flow and team engagement. Provide high energy Agile facilitation for 3-5 cross-functional development teams delivering financial/payment capabilities across mainframe, distributed, and cloud platforms in a large Government environment. Conduct scrum ceremonies and teach Agile best practices. Make the process engaging, value-focused and predictable., * Ability to quickly grasp business and technical requirements, understand or learn technical jargon and government acronyms, produce communication for all levels of the organization.

  • Proficient with VersionOne / Agility (or comparable tool) for boards, dependencies, impediments, and lightweight rollup reporting.
  • Proven ability to keep ceremonies purposeful, timeboxed, and engaging (planning, daily, refinement, review, retro).
  • Demonstrated success by reducing carryover, aging blockers, and decision latency without adding heavy process.
  • Ability to coach backlog readiness (thin vertical slices, clear acceptance criteria, limited WIP).
  • Hold teams accountable to sizing activities to ensure project ends dates can be projected.
  • Manage over and under talkers in ceremonies.
  • Ability to schedule, track, and manage meetings.
  • Facilitate core Agile events and lightweight cross-team syncs; maintain sprint goal clarity.
  • Make Agile “feel useful” via energetic, varied, participatory ceremonies (not rote compliance).
  • Track and drive resolution of impediments (environment, integration, data, approvals) across platforms.
  • Coordinate cross-team and cross-platform dependencies (batch windows vs deployment timing, integration points).
  • Maintain visible radiators: sprint goals, impediment log, experiment tracker, simple metrics (goal attainment %, carryover, blocker aging).
  • Coach Product Owners / BAs and tech leaders on prioritization, slicing, and readiness.
  • Drive 1-2 small improvement experiments per team per sprint; follow through to closure.
  • Foster psychological safety, inclusive participation, and sustainable pace.
  • The Scrum Master will heavily be using these skills: communication, leadership, organization, time management, budget management, risk management, problem-solving, adaptability, and teamwork.
  • Effective at building strong business relationships across teams to ensure a positive customer experience and quality of software projects into Production.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Transitioning development teams to Agile?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, * Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field from an accredited College/University is preferred.

  • Alternative Path: If the candidate does not possess a relevant four-year degree, an additional four years of relevant work experience will be required.

Required Experience:

Education: Bachelor’s Degree preferred; however, additional experience can be substituted for degree.

Required Experience: 5+ years of Scrum Master/Agile facilitation (2+ years with multiple concurrent development teams.

  • Minimum 8 years’ experience in IT, * Strong written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to effectively work directly with customers, the executive leadership team, and technical staff.
  • Effective liaison between business and technical teams.
  • Strong facilitation skills to effectively lead discussions across multiple groups.

Preferred Skills:

  • CSM/PSM/A-CSM
  • Experience with informal scaling practices (Scrum of Scrums, quarterly alignment)
  • Comfort with basic flow visuals (cycle time scatter, aging WIP snapshot)

Security Clearance Level:

  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
  • This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years., Years of Experience 8 + years of related experience

  • may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Benefits & conditions

(part of General Dynamics) 3.73.7 out of 5 stars Indiana $93,500 - $126,500 a year, The likely salary range for this position is $93,500 - $126,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

About the company

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across over 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, cloud, cyber and application development. Together with our customers, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology. Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc.

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