Scrum Master

As a Scrum Master at GDIT, you will play a crucial role in facilitating Agile events, removing blockers, and coaching the team to leverage Agile practices to achieve execution efficiencies.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute all Agile events: Sprint planning, PI planning, Backlog grooming, Daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other Agile related events
• Conduct workshops specific to identified areas of improvement
• Coach the Product Owner on backlog refinement and story-readiness practices
• Coach the team and broader organization on Agile values, principles, and practices to foster self-organization and continuous improvement
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
• Coach Scrum teams through all sprints of a program increment, remove impediments and champion the team
• Assist the Scrum team in developing and estimating user stories that are clearly articulated with well-defined acceptance criteria and done criteria
• Update Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
• Determine and remove impediments that interfere with the ability of the teams to deliver assigned goals
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
• Promote continuous improvement and help teams to increase velocity
• Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters experimentation, creativity and innovation
• Assist with internal and external communication
• Identify necessary data collection to drive continuous improvements across the Scrum teams.
• Create information radiators to share improvements with the team and stakeholders through Agile tooling, dashboards, etc.
• Inject efficiencies into Agile cadence using data driven approach and metrics
• Measure Agile maturity at pre-defined milestones

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline, business, or a technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience leading Agile Scrum teams
• Strong understanding of software and hardware integration
• Working knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban) and experience applying them to support work planning across technical teams, including Architecture and Engineering, Test, Lab, and Training
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with Atlassian Agile Products; specifically, JIRA and Confluence
• 5+ years of Scaled Agile (SAFe) and/or Scrum Master experience working within the DoW or IC Community
• Experience coordinating Agile sprint execution with traditional program management artifacts (schedule, EVM, milestone reviews) in a government acquisition environment.
• Experience participating in or facilitating Scrum of Scrums and cross-team dependency management within a SAFe Agile Release Train

Benefits:

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace