Responsibilities:

• As a Senior Scrum Master at Packaged Agile, you’ll be responsible for helping your client Scrum Teams implement good agile practices focused on continuous improvement and delivering value to customers.
• Embrace your client’s vision and goals, making them your own.
• Invest yourself in your client’s product – understand what it is, how it works, and the value it delivers to customers and users.
• Facilitate effective Scrum events and events to drive development and improve processes.
• Design effective methods to keep remote team members engaged.
• Monitor the health of the Scrum team and adjust approaches as needed.
• Remove obstacles within the team’s sphere of influence.
• Build trust and strong relationships with and among team members.
• Identify and explain risks in plain language. Provide mitigation recommendations.
• Lead Scrum and ad-hoc training to improve the team’s skills.
• Advise the client and team on agile best practices

Requirements:

• US Citizenship or Green Card status with the ability to pass a Public Trust clearance process with a US Government client
• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
• 4+ years of business experience on IT software projects or products
• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). SAFe Agilist or other SAFe certifications are strongly preferred
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification required. Multiple agile certifications are strongly preferred.
• Passionate about Scrum and continuous learning
• Significant experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Excellent facilitation skills
• Ability to maintain composure in the face of challenges
• Propose logical approaches to address issues
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to work well in a mixed team of government personnel and other contractors
• Experience with entire software development life cycle (business process, requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, training)
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Strongly preferred: candidates who live in an SBA HUBZone. (Learn More Here)
• Strongly preferred: Experience with SAP