Scrum Master

NTC OVERVIEW: We are seeking a Scrum Master to join our team. Working at NT Concepts means that you are part of an innovative, agile company dedicated to solving the most critical challenges in National Security. We’re looking for the best and the brightest to join us in supporting this mission. If meaningful work, initiative, creativity, and continuous self-improvement are important to your career, join our growing team and discover what's next for you.

Mission Focus: As a Scrum Master on our solutions delivery team, you will have the unique opportunity to work on innovative projects advancing the digital transformation of critical government systems with true mission impact.

Clearance: TS/SCI with Poly required

Location/Flexibility: Chantilly, VA

Responsibilities:

• Drive a development team to tactically and strategically meet the customer’s mission application needs
• Advancing the team’s development through effective Agile ceremonies: daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, demos, and retrospectives
• Controlling the scrum board: ticket creation, grooming, management, and assignment; defining and managing sprint points and scope; documenting ticket description and acceptance criteria; ensuring that ticket status and comments are current
• Serve as primary technical point of coordination between customers, product owners, and development teams to elicit requirements and decompose stories for planning and execution
• Ensuring systems being developed comply with the enterprise technical architecture
• Leveraging the candidate’s excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills to provide timely and clear program updates to customer leadership and program documentation

Qualifications:

• Clearance: TS/SCI with Poly required
• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience or 11+ years of relevant experience and a HS diploma
• Experience leading an Agile Scrum team
• Extensive experience with Agile techniques and practices
• Ability to influence customers, stakeholders, and teams without direct authority
• Experience working with ambiguity
• Expert experience in Jira and Confluence
• Working knowledge and practice of project management concepts and principles
• Demonstrated experience working with cross-functional teams
• Familiarity across a variety of technical disciplines to include web application development, cloud solutions, and IT security
• Demonstrated leadership qualities through prior experience working with senior management to find solutions for customers and leading software development teams
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification strongly preferred

Keys to Success:

• Experience supporting the Intelligence Community (IC)
• Ability to understand and explain business impacts of technical direction of the team
• Fluency in application and software development; DevSecOps; automation testing

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 10-15 pounds at times.

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