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