Mid/Sr Scrum Master

03-SM

Unisity LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business providing expert services in the Information Technology fields. We pride ourselves on delivering what is promised as some would say we just do. We are highly-qualified self-driven professionals who work towards a common goal as a team leading when appropriate and following when needed.

Description:
The Scrum Master role requires an experienced Agile Lead/Scrum Master to work on a large-scale software and hardware integration effort. The selected candidate will be responsible for facilitating either one large complex agile team or several small agile teams as part of a larger Agile Release Train (ART) delivering value to the customer using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The candidate will help educate and coach the teams in Scrum Scrumban or Kanban to ensure that the agile processes are being followed. They will help remove impediments/roadblocks and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics continuous flow and relentless improvement. The selected candidate will work with team members with other Agile Scrum Masters and with support personnel to ensure that the teams commitments at the Program Increment (PI) Planning are met. She/he will facilitate horizontal communication across team members to identify any impediments that may prevent team progress while working mitigation plans. The selected candidate will be responsible for sensing determining and leading discussions when issues need to be analyzed or triaged and for making improvements in determining and implementing improvements to processes. Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion is critical.

Due to federal contract requirements United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with customer appropriate polygraph).

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for facilitating self-organizing team(s) to ensure the team is making 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 Engineers on implementing solutions.
• Help team members communicate coordinate and cooperate.
• Coach support and enforce Scrum process and other process rules.
• Ensure that the team has a clear understanding of Definition of Done and how to meet it.
• Coordinate with other teams on the Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and communicate status to management.
• Work with the Product Owner(s) to review and prioritize features.
• Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies to include Sprint Planning Sprint Reviews to include demos Sprint Retrospectives and PI Planning.
• Work with Product Owner(s) and System Engineers to develop User Stories to meet the 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 the goal of continuous improvement.
• Observe team dynamics recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team members contributions and coach the team as a whole to drive improvements in productivity.
• Create a fun sharing and learning environment experiment with various ideas to improve delivery including pair-programming and cross-functional training.
• Promote teamwork to achieve Sprint goals.
• Lead teams towards Agile maturity.

• At least 8 (eight) years of relevant work experience as a Scrum Master preferably on a large technical program.
• Experience working as a Scrum Master for a software development or similar technical team.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP).
• Experience using agile project management tools (e.g. Jira VersionOne Rallye IBM RTC).
• Excellent written verbal and interpersonal communication skills and time management skills are a must.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment across diverse systems and groups.

• Bachelors degree in a technical field.
• Experience working with large software systems including hardware integration and test.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical development teams.
• Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology.
• Experience affecting change in organizations working towards agile adoption.
• Experience applying test automation test-driven development continuous integration and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the team.
• Experience using Kanban as a means to improve flow on support teams.