Job Number: R0242349 Scrum Master
The Opportunity: As a S crum M aster , you're passionate about outcomes and supporting a development team that's modernizing 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 coach a development team to achieve its highest performance level, while ensuring the team is meeting their PI and sprint goals . You wi ll work on unusually complex problems, introduce leading-edge concepts, and provide highly innovative solutions to your team and key stakeholders.
Using tools like Jira and Confluence, you'll strengthen sustainable process improvements to help your team accomplish sprint planning and reviews. Work with us as we shape systems for the better.
Join us. The world can't wait.
What You'll Work On: - Collaborate with Product Owner, Engineering Lead, and Chief Architect to ensure backlog quality, clarity, and prioritization.
- Facilitate sprint ceremonies that produce consistent outcomes.
- Promote and measure Agile metrics.
- Collaborate closely with other scrum teams to align priorities, manage shared resources, and ensure consistent sequencing of work.
- Gather and document technical and business requirements.
- Ensure scrum principles and approaches are understood correctly by the development team and stakeholders maximizing the performance of the team.
- Coach the scrum team to apply appropriate processes to create successful products.
- Foster self-organization and collaborative scrum team sheltering the team from outside distractions to keep focus mainly on the agreed sprint goals.
- Monitor and improve the scrum process and project progress helping solve impediments in the development process.
You Have: - 5+ years of experience with Scrum Master role or managing teams to meet stakeholder objectives
- 5+ years of experience with gathering and documenting technical and business requirements
- Experience with JIRA
- Experience in leading client delivery engagements and working with senior-level client management
- Experience teaching technical teams, comprised of junior and senior team members, the basic Agile framework concepts
- Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
- Bachelor's degree in a computer science or engineering field
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification
Nice If You Have: - Knowledge of the project management framework
- Knowledge of agency or intelligence community and IT infrastructures
- Possession of excellent interpersonal skills, to successfully interact with clients, engineers, and managers
- Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
- Master's degree in a computer science or engineering field
- Agile or PMI Certification
Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.
CompensationAt 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 $62,000.00 to $141,000.00 (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 StatementAs part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. 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.
Candidate AI Usage PolicyAI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on
your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited
unless permission is explicitly provided.
Work ModelOur people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.
- Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
- Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
- Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.
Commitment to Non-DiscriminationAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.
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