# Agile Scrum Master

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Leidos' Digital Sector as we stand up a brand-new Agile development team at the forefront of federal IT modernization, delivering real digital transformation where it matters most. This is a rare ground-floor opportunity to architect, build, and integrate cutting-edge infrastructure solutions in support of some of our nation's most sensitive and critical missions.

**Responsibilities:**

- Facilitate self-organizing team(s) to ensure progress against Program Increment commitments.

- Protect the team from scope creep during execution of the PI.

- Remove impediments for the team and coordinate with the Release Train Engineer or Project Manager in implementing solutions.

- Help team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate.

- Support and enforce Scrum process and other rules.

- Ensure the team has a clear understanding of Definition of Done and how to meet it.

- Coordinate with other teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) and communicate status to management.

- Work with the Product Owner(s) to review and prioritize features.

- Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, demos, sprint retrospectives, and PI planning.

- Work with Product Owner(s) to develop User Stories to meet Feature acceptance criteria.

- Maintain and generate information radiators for the teams.

- Collect and share team metrics with the team, determine when new metrics are needed, and develop improvements in metrics.

- Coach teams on agile and scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement.

- Observe team dynamics, recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team members' contributions, and coach the team as a whole driving improvement in productivity.

- Create a fun sharing and learning environment, experimenting with various ideas to improve delivery, including pair-programming and cross-functional training.

- Promote teamwork to achieve sprint goals.

- Lead teams towards agile maturity.

- Work with and mentor junior Scrum Masters to guide and coach them throughout each project.

**Requirements:**

- Active TS/SCI clearance.

- Willingness to complete and maintain additional customer suitability screenings throughout employment.

- Current Security+ certification or higher/equivalent.

- Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline with 8-12 years of relevant experience or Master's with 6-10 years of experience.

- Experience working as a Scrum Master on a software development or other technical team.

- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), or similar agile project management certification.

- Experience using agile project management tools (e.g., Jira).

- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, and time management skills.

**Benefits:**

- Early-stage flexibility with partial telework during initial development phases.

- Full-time on-site presence at a secure facility in Washington, DC will be required as the program matures.

- Collaborative, Agile environment.

- Dev platform based on ServiceNow, Elastic, AWS, and RedHat.

**Pay Range:** $92,300.00 - $166,850.00

## Skills

### Required
- Agile
- Scrum
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- ServiceNow
- Elastic
- AWS
- RedHat
- Jira
- Security+

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