Seeking a remote Scrum Master to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Cloud and National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) initiatives. The candidate must be forward-thinking and possess a passion for providing facilitation and guidance for agile teams that are rapidly delivering value to their customers, leveraging concepts of Agile SAFe, Lean, and Kanban.
Education Requirements: BS or higher in a technology-related field. MS/MBA is a plus.
Experience:
Required Skills:
- Certification: Scrum Master Certification
- Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills; prior experience working in a matrix and geographically distributed organization
- Mastery in managing and facilitating across teams
- At least 3 years of demonstrated Scrum Master experience, or similar technical role in a software development environment
- At least 3 years of software delivery management covering all aspects of SDLC
- 2 years of experience with Project Mgmt. Tools: MS Project, SharePoint, Jira, Office 365, Slack
- Demonstrate drive, initiative, and creativity
- Logical, organized, and execution oriented
- Pass a US Government Background Investigation
- Be able to obtain a security clearance
Desired skills:
- Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) preferred
- Understanding cloud computing technologies, IT business drivers, and emerging computing trends and technologies
- Additional Certification: CSPO Certification, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, Agile Project Management (e. g., Jira/Confluence/MS Project), AWS/MS Azure Certifications
Duties/Responsibilities:
The Scrum Master plays a critical role in an Agile Release Train of the Scaled Agile Framework. He/she is expected to act as a lean-agile leader, and team coach to deliver added value to the stakeholders. Prefer demonstrated experience in leading by example, instilling lean, agile practices, and guiding with the necessary system-thinking mindset to achieve higher productivity.
- Work with teams to facilitate and guide engineers and staff on agile practices
- Mastery in managing and facilitation across teams
- Drive cross team impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination
- Collaborate with Product Owner and team to collectively plan cycles, team sync, backlog refinement, and continuous communications
- Facilitate team events, coach the teams, and assist them to deliver added value by closely working with Product Owner and Enterprise Architect & Management
- Identify and proactively work to remove barriers, influence decisions, and improve the entire delivery system
- Help the team and ART end-users understand their impact on the overall picture of the decision-making process
- Prepare and support ART PI Planning
About Gama-1
GAMA-1 is a rapidly growing technology business that is based in Greenbelt, Maryland. GAMA-1 Technologies provides strategic information assurance, information security, and business enterprise and networking solutions to the Federal Government. Our success is based on the utilization of industry and agency standards, establishment of standardized processes, and IT Services expertise. At GAMA-1, we believe employees should grow, achieve, and develop just as the company grows, achieves, and develops. GAMA-1 is committed to providing our employees with opportunities for career advancement throughout their employment. For more information, visit www.gama1tech.com
GAMA-1 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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