Scrum Master

Company: Arlluk Technology Solutions
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: November 13, 2021

Job Description:

Arlluk currently has an opening for a Scrum Master to work remotely with our USDA client supporting a modernization effort. This position is REMOTE.We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K with company matching, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, three weeks paid time off, and more.The Scrum Master:

• Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
• Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
• Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
• Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
• Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
• Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
• Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
• Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
• Maintain team data in project management software (i.e. TFS, GitLab, etc.) to support estimates and execution
• Presents high level project readouts for senior management
• Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
• Manage other special projects, fill in on team as needed.Education and Experience Required:
  • BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
  • Minimum 8 years of project management experience and 4 years leading sprints
  • Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
  • Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
  • Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum
  • Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
  • Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices
  • Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams' needs
  • Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
  • Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience
  • Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
  • Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
  • Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email
  • Self-motivated, organized
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding environment
  • Excellent organizational skills and strong attention to detail
  • Ability to prioritize duties based on shifting demandsDesirable:
    • Experience with Azure and GitLabWorking Environment & ConditionsThis position is primarily indoors, consistent with a standard office position and has a noise level of mostly low to moderate. The incumbent is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The work load may require the incumbent to sit for extended periods of time. The incumbent must be able to read, do simple math calculations and withstand moderate amounts of stress. The incumbent must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.Our Equal Employment Opportunity PolicyThe company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin, age, disability, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment, promotion, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment.The company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants. If you require an accommodation to navigate or to apply to a position on our website, please contact Heaven Wood via e-mail at accommodations@koniag-gs.com or by calling 703-488-9377 to request accommodations. This contact information is used for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire on a status of your application.EOE Minorities/Female/Protected Veterans/Disabled. Shareholder Preference in accordance with Public Law 88-352Arlluk Technology Solutions, LLC (Arlluk) is a newly established Alaskan Native-owned, small disadvantaged business that is part of the Koniag Government Services group. Arlluk provides Application Development, Maintenance, and Enhancements, Enterprise IT Infrastructure Solutions, Cyber Security, and Integrated Program Management services. We support Federal civilian and defense agencies and State governments across multiple business functions including: Finance, Health, Defense, Social Services, Consumer Protection and Insurance. Arlluk has an 8(a) application pending with the Small Business Administration.

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