Scrum Master

Lockheed Martin MFC is seeking a Project Engineer to manage and guide the Agile DEVOPS scrum team from development to deployment of functional capabilities to fulfill Customers’ requirements. Serve as the servant leader for the team to ensure clear communication and removing impediments to help the team to successfully meet its goals and objectives. Continuously challenge the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity. Help the team focus on daily and iterative goals in the context of current Program Increment (PI) Objectives. Lead team efforts in relentless improvement. Facilitate retrospectives and meetings to include daily stand ups, sprint planning, and demos. Support the Product Owner by managing the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope. Represent the team in Scum of Scrums at the MFC-level.

Essential Duties:

• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
• Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization.
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on backlog refinement and maintaining the product backlog.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.

Responsibilities for Scrum Master

• Lead the scrum team in using Agile

Missiles and Fire Control (MFC) is one of four Lockheed Martin business areas. MFC is a recognized designer, developer and manufacturer of precision engagement aerospace and defense systems for the U.S. and allied militaries. MFC develops, manufactures and supports advanced combat, missile, rocket, manned and unmanned systems for military customers that include the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, NASA and dozens of foreign allies. MFC also offers a wide range of products and services for the global civil nuclear power industry and the military’s green power initiatives. MFC has five principal product categories that correspond to the vital capabilities it provides our warfighters and civilian customers in their defining moments. MFC pursues business in more than 50 countries with more than 50 product and service lines.

Join our team and invent the future of Aerospace and Defense!

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Relocation:

• Relocation assistance is possible for this exciting position.

The Locale:

• Orlando is a city in the Central Florida area.
• This region is a great place to live and to raise a family.
• Central Florida offers lots of attractive residential housing options.
• The Greater Orlando metropolitan area is the sixth largest metro area in the southeastern United States.
• The climate here is warm and sunny all year long for the most part.
• Orlando is home to the University of Central Florida (UCF), Walt Disney World, and SeaWorld.

Where can you get to from Orlando?

• Orlando is about an hour’s drive from Cocoa Beach and the “space coast” to include NASA and the Kennedy Space Center.
• Tampa is about 1 and ¼ hours from Orlando.
• West Palm Beach is about 2.5 hours to the south and Jacksonville is about 2 hours to the northeast.
• Atlanta, GA is 6 hours to the northwest.

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Basic Qualifications:

• Strong problem solving skills, with the ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict

• Knowledgeable in techniques to fill in gaps in the scrum

• Ability to determine what is scrum and what is not

• Experience with successful Agile techniques

• Ability to work with and lead a team

• Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills

• Ability to adapt to a changing environment

• Self-motivation and ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction

• Excellent communication and mentoring skills

• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.

• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: Kanban, Scrum, SAFe

• Experience working with various audiences, both technical and non-technical.

=Must be a US Citizen and have the ability to obtain a Department of Defense Secret clearance.

=Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 9 years of professional experience; or 7 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
Desired Skills:
The following are desired:

• Thorough understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

• Experience in Version One

• Experience in Jira

• Experience using Confluence

• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing

• Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach

• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
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Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
EXPERIENCE LEVEL:
Experienced Professional