Sr. Specialist Scrum Master

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customer’s mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris, ForceX division is an industry leader specializing in Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) software development and geospatial application technology programs. Our tightly integrated hardware and software solutions enables front-line special operations aviators to save lives by allowing aircrew members to operate efficiently when protecting friendly ground forces. We are the Trusted Choice of End-Users in the Special Operations Aviation Community. Working at L3Harris ForceX puts you at the forefront of ongoing advancements in an exciting industry and makes you a valued contributor toward changing the way people interact with technology. We believe success comes from teamwork, enthusiasm and striving for excellence. Located in the vibrant West End area of Nashville, Tennessee near the University of Vanderbilt campus and Centennial Park, L3Harris ForceX is more than just a place to work. We are excited to offer an exceptional, comprehensive medical, dental, vision benefits package which includes company paid life insurance, three weeks paid time off, 11 paid holidays, flexible work hours (6:30 am to 7 pm), 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, free lunch on-site three days a week, access to our company suite at Bridgestone arena for concerts and sporting events, access to on-site gym, popping some popcorn for an afternoon snack, playing a friendly game of ping-pong, or perhaps designing something fun on the company 3-D printer, just to name a few. As you can see, we enjoy a culture of dedication, innovation and creativity where we approach work with a positive outlook every day, while at the same time, integrating and engineering software that interfaces with some of the newest and coolest hardware on the planet.

Job Summary:

The role of Scrum Master is a Servant Leader at L3 Harris. The Servant Leader is focused on team functionality. The Scrum Master is responsible for monitoring the Scrum/Agile processes to increase team efficiency by motivating and facilitating the scrum team to self-organization, higher quality, team ownership and driving the team to meet their deliverables.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Understanding agile values and principles and can guide and coach teams, and the organization.
• Guiding and coaching delivery teams to self-organize and achieve objectives, without assigning or dictating the work
• Mobilizing new teams to agile practices and values
• Facilitating all agile ceremonies efficiently to help team realize the value of the meetings to performance outcomes
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved
• Working effectively with management and team members to clarify needs and plan delivery of major product changes, future versions and new products
• Working to proactively manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, ensuring that they are identified, coordinated, mitigated or escalated as necessary
• Working with Product Owner and Development Team to facilitate effective sprints by removing impediments and ensuring that stories are ‘sprint ready’
• Demonstrating servant-leadership while guiding the team to improve their processes all while challenging them to innovate and experiment
• Helping foster an environment that empowers and energizes team members, with a focus on accountability, adaptability, and collaboration
• Facilitate Agile Scrum stand-up meetings, retrospectives, sprints, release planning and delivery of artifacts for the Scrum process for multiple teams
• Develop and report process metrics for real-time or historical presentation
• Administer and maintain systems used for Project Lifecycle Management
• Maintain current knowledge and keep updated on new relevant technology
• Provide support and lead special projects as needed
• Evaluating a team’s agile maturity using tools provided and successfully implementing action plans for improving agile maturity
• Coming to work with a can-do, get things done attitude necessary to maintain our awesome culture

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Ability to obtain a US security clearance required
• 6+ years of experience as a practicing Scrum Master in a technology and/or software development environment
• A clear understanding of agile methodologies, values, and procedures
• Proven leadership skills that motivate scrum teams to perform at their best
• Proven success in baselining programs to match changes in scope
• Good skills and knowledge of facilitation techniques, servant leadership, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Experience with agile PLM tools like JIRA, Rally, VersionOne (or other)
• Understanding of backlog tracking, Scrum and Kanban based metrics, task definition, and story splitting
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills
• Experience in sprint & release planning, running demos and retrospectives.
• Demonstrate sound judgment and strong reasoning skills as well as good analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to travel up to 20%

Preferred Skills, Experience and Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Business Administration, Computer Science, Education

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification

• Ability to utilize multiple desktop publishing and still-image editing programs
• Highly proficient written/verbal communication and presentation skills
• Highly proficient grammatical skills
• Ability to prioritize and organize tasks and assignments

• Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside of normal working hours (evenings, weekends, and holidays)
• Work performed in an office environment

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $17 billion in annual revenue, 50,000 employees and customers in more than 130 countries . L3Harris. com

L3 Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.