Job Description
Scrum Master
The Opportunity:
As a Scrum Master, you're passionate about outcomes and supporting a development team that's creating efficiency in critical projects. You know the importance of Agile best practices and how to combat challenges early to get work done.
On our team, you'll apply your functional knowledge to coach a development team to focus on sprint goals, ensuring the project is successfully progressed. You'll apply basic scrum principles and concepts to resolve routine problems. Using tools like Jira and Confluence, you'll strengthen sustainable process improvements to help your team accomplish sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
You must possess an in-depth understanding of Agile methodologies and the ability to facilitate the implementation of Agile best practices. You will drive teams to execute on a delivery timeline and align work from the task level to a strategic level. Using your skills, you'll work with each team to make sure status updates and new work is being captured and prioritized along with progressing to a higher agile maturity. You'll have the ability to pull information together to provide targeted briefings or reporting up to the client level and ability to convey value added by agile processes. You'll institute and facilitate agile ceremonies so that adherence is sustainable. You'll be working to help teams identify blockers and escalate appropriately. You'll assist in increasing cross-collaboration between different teams for visibility and tracking of dependencies. You'll maintain organized work flows, be oriented, and be able to work in a fast-paced environment.
Join us. The world can't wait.
You Have: - 2+ years of experience in a Scrum Master role or with managing teams to meet stakeholder objectives
- Experience with the DoD, Joint Staff, or combatant Commands
- Experience with both Scrum and Kanban methodologies
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence
- Experience with teaching technical teams the basic Agile framework concepts
- Experience creating solutions within a collaborative, cross-functional team environment
- Secret clearance
- Bachelor's degree
- Scrum Master Certification
Nice If You Have: - Experience using Jira Advanced plans
- Experience conducting a Program Increment (PI) Planning Event
- Experience with Microsoft Suite, including Outlook, Teams, and PowerPoint
- Experience with the military
- Experience in software development
- Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills
- TS/SCI clearance
- Master's degree
- SAFe Certification
Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.
Compensation At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen's benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.
Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual's particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $60,400.00 to $137,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen's total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.
Identity Statement As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
Work Model Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely.
- If this position is listed as remote or hybrid, you'll periodically work from a Booz Allen or client site facility.
- If this position is listed as onsite, you'll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role.
EEO Commitment We're an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that empowers our people to fearlessly drive change - no matter their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.
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