Job Description

Description

SAIC seeks a motivated and enthusiastic Scrum Master to support the Ground Based Radar (GBR) Maintenance and Sustainment Services (GMASS) contract. This contract supports operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars critical to US and Allied strategic missile warning, missile defense, and space domain awareness missions in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A well-qualified candidate should have a desire to facilitate Agile Release Train (ART) events, processes, and assist teams in delivering mission and customer value. Scrum Masters will communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement on our program.

Major duties of the position include:

• Serve as a facilitator of ART level events and processes including Value Stream Mapping, Roadmap creation, Backlog management, Program Increment (PI) Planning, Product Owner Sync, Scrum of Scrums, PI Review, Demonstrations, Retrospectives, and Inspect and Adapt Workshops.
• Serve as an Agile coach working with mission owners, stakeholders (including customers), Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Kanban leads, and Team members to ensure the processes and practices of the program align with the purposes and desired business and mission outcomes of Agile/DevSecOps principles.
• Establish and track key ART level metrics and regularly communicate these metrics to program/technical leadership and relevant stakeholders.
• Improve the flow of value through Value Streams by improving and assessing the practices associated with DevSecOps and Release on Demand in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
• Facilitate Regular System Demos that show Acceptance Criteria has been met and are a vehicle for selling off Features to Stakeholders.
• Assess the Agility level of the ART and drive relentless improvement including refresher training and skills path guidance aligned with the program and company’s training opportunities.
• Foster Communities of Practice (CoP) and the use of Engineering and Built-In Quality practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of related experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.
• Experience as a Scrum Master on moderate to large size ART (100-150 people).
• Demonstrated Program/Project Management and/or leadership skills.
• Experience driving continuous improvement and common processes across diverse stakeholder groups.

Desired Qualifications:

• Proficient with Atlassian Tools (Jira and Confluence), Microsoft Office Suite, and Power BI.
• Possess industry recognized Agile, and/or Scrum certification (PMI, Scaled Agile, Scrum.org, Scrum Inc., or Scrum Alliance).
• Worked within the DoD on larger programs implementing SAFe across a single or multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs).

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Job Tags

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