Scrum Master

Formed in 2011, INADEV is focused on its founding principle to build innovative customer-centric solutions incredibly fast, secure, and at scale. We deliver world-class digital experiences to some of the largest federal agencies and commercial companies. Our technical expertise and innovations are comprised of codeless automation, identity intelligence, immersive technology, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), virtualization, and digital transformation.

RESPONSIBILITES:

• Acts as the scrum master for the team and runs one or more scrum teams that consist of Business Analysts, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Systems Architects, Application Developers, Automation Testers, DevOps Engineers, and Data Analysts.
• Prepare integrated roadmaps and project schedule for upcoming and future priorities.
• Performs systems development lifecycle activities including analysis, requirements, design, development, testing, and implementation of products, information systems, and business processes in a variety of technical environments.
• Follow best practices, develop, and improve upon procedures consistent with task requirements, using analytical thinking and communication techniques to rapidly assimilate various types of information and identify which are relevant.
• Assist with requirements and prioritization activities including elicitation, analysis, design, testing, and implementation of products, information systems, and business processes in a data environment.
• Work closely with experienced analysts or project leaders to seek guidance and added instructions.
• Participate in strategic planning and evaluate and recommend technical solutions.
• Evaluates problems of workflows, organization, and technology and helps the team develop appropriate corrective action
• Be the Subject-Matter Expert (SME) on business requirements, scrum processes, user needs, and value.
• Authority on the expected behavior of the system, including determining if a bug report is a defect or expected behavior.
• Be an Expert on how to write excellent epics, user stories, tasks, spikes, bugs and acceptance criteria in JIRA other scrum artifacts.
• Be able to assist the Product Owner (PO) in creating good user stories (with the assistance of the team, where necessary).
• Review/Write/edit user stories and acceptance criteria when the PO is not able to.
• Own the "Definition of Done", with the team's assistance on the "Definition of Done".
• Work closely with the developers and the test engineers to come to an agreement on the acceptance criteria for all user stories.
• Own the prioritization of stories (the PO sets the priorities; the BA owns that the list is accurate).
• Ensure that the team is meeting the deadlines set by Office of Information Technology (OIT).
• Be a gatekeeper of Quality.
• Ensure the requirements are clear enough to test and edge cases have been addressed.
• Lead the way and set a great example of checking that stories meet the Acceptance Criteria, are well done, and meet the "Definition of Done."
• Conduct all agile scrum ceremonies

NON-TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to pass a 7-year background check and obtain/maintain a DHS-USCIS Entry on Duty (EOD) Clearance.
• Must be willing to work a HYRBID Schedule (2-3 Days) in McLean, VA & client locations in the Northern Virginia/DC/MD area as required.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
• Must have critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Excellent time management skills and working within aggressive delivery schedules.

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have a Bachelors Degree in a technical discipline and 5 years of pertinent experience as a Scrum Master.
• Must have extensive experience working within Agile Frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban
• Must possess a basic understanding of public cloud environments
• Extremely proficient in creating status reports to include but not limited to Sprint Status, Release Status, burndown and burnup charts, sprint dashboards, roadmaps, risks, mitigation & issues.
• Ability to manage more than one team.
• Works closely with the team on a daily basis to ensure that the tasks are delivered on time.
• Must be able to provide reports on who is working on what at any point in time using JIRA.
• Acts as a liaison between the development team and the stakeholders as needed and requested.
• Proficient in working with the team in creating reasonable and accurate time estimates for assigned tasks.
• Excellent communication skills to be able to interact directly with non-technical client stakeholders and act in a business-to-technical translation role, including generating effective visualizations.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Active/Current DHS-USCIS Entry on Duty (EOD) Clearance/Investigation

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

INADEV Corporation does not discriminate against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, or national origin.