Scrum Master – FBI

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Company: Paradyme Management
Location: Washington, DC 20535 (Downtown area)

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Overview:[

In this role, you will support the FBI’s CJIS/NCIC division’s software development and integration of the N3G Concepts that are to be developed using an off-premise Cloud solution. The overall technical environment includes: AWS/Cloud, Jenkins, GitLab, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, and Linux. With software development being done with technologies such as: Java, JavaScript, ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, etc.), and Hadoop. These opportunities will be available in any of the following four locations: Washington, DC; Clarksburg, WV; Pocatello, ID; Huntsville, AL.

]Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for, but not limited to:
  • Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology.
  • Responsible to remove the impediments for the scrum team.
  • Arrange daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demos and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
  • Helps product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.
  • Responsible for conducting retrospective meetings.
  • Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting.


Requirements

  • Must hold an active Secret or Top-Secret clearance.
  • You will be able to demonstrate at least five (5) years of Scrum Master experience.
  • You will have a minimum of five (5) years of experience in the following areas:
  • Exhibiting Lean-Agile leadership and helping team members embrace Agile values, adopting and applying Agile Principles, and implementing Agile practices.
  • Keeping the team focused on daily and iteration goals; and helps achievement with respect to quality, flow and velocity.
  • Facilitating the team’s retrospective and leading the team’s improvement efforts.
  • Facilitating all team meetings, including, but not limited to, the daily stand-up, Iteration Planning, Team Demo, and Iteration Retrospective.
  • Supporting the Product Owner with respect to priorities and scope.
  • Actively addressing impediments such as getting support from other teams when required.
  • Promoting Agile quality practices so the team can meet its goals.
  • Providing communication to other Agile teams.
  • Coordinating with other Agile teams, such as participation in the Scrum of Scrums meeting.
  • Guiding the team in estimating the team’s work.
  • Leading an Agile development team that has implemented microservice architectures for web and application services using virtual instances, load balancing, automated surge capability, and integrated performance monitoring.
  • Implementing security controls required by Federal information systems.
  • You will have a minimum of two (2) years of experience in the following areas:
  • Leading an Agile development team that has experience with automating application deployments, scaling and management.
  • You will have one (1) of the following Agile certifications:
  • SAFe Advanced Scrum Master with SASM Certification from Scaled Agile, Inc.
  • Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Professional from Scrum Alliance
  • Agile Certified Professional from Project Management Institute

Desired
  • A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant area of study.

EEO Statement:

Paradyme is a federal contractor and an EEO and an Affirmative Action Employer. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy-related disability, physical or mental disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, personal appearance, occupation, citizenship, veteran or military status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.