Scrum Master - TS/SCI
Arlington, VA

Job Description

Who We Seek:

* Passion Seekers. You genuinely care about the work that you do and its impact on society.
* Self-Starters. You're a go-getter who isn't afraid to step up and disrupt the status quo.
* Entrepreneurs. You bring fresh ideas to the table, work hard, develop business and consistently seek new challenges.
* Collaborators. You're a great contributor to a high performing team that accomplishes great feats for our clients.

What You Will Do:

* Prepare for and facilitate daily scrum meetings, biweekly sprint planning, review, retrospective, backlog grooming meetings, and planning poker sessions for multiple (2-3) technical teams.
* Facilitate and prepare for external end-of-sprint demonstrations
* Create, maintain, and organize backlog of features, epics, stories, and tasks in JIRA
* Provide input to release planning using team capacity and skill set information
* Compile, analyze, and present statistics about time estimation accuracy, team velocity, and burn down rate to manage each sprint
* Meet with product owners and operational business managers for selected modules to introduce scrum and program processes and outline expectations
* Identify common issues across teams (e.g. communication, UI consistency) and lead the implementation of new solutions
* Communicate team progress and dependencies with other team leads during scrum of scrums
* Interface with business, test, and user support teams to receive requirements information and forward updates on feature progress
* Review and provide feedback on drafted user stories and epics to ensure alignment with general Agile user story standards
* Create general Agile graphics and PMO with executive briefings
* Be an advocate for the Agile and Scrum methodology

Required Skills:

* Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Technology, or similar with minimum 5 years experience
* Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or experience on an Agile/Scrum team
* Strong self-organization and self-management skills, with emphasis on self-initiation and follow through; interest in and affinity to create new projects and see them through to completion
* Experience with implementing scrum for large scale, complex systems
* Experience using Agile backlog management tool(s), preferably JIRA
* Excellent written and oral communication skills
* Strong organizational and creativity skills, able to maintain composure in a chaotic environment and promote a sensible and logical approach to issues
* Experience with cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Service

Years of Experience: 5 Years

Minimum Education Required: Bachelor's Degree

Clearance Required: Active DOD Top Secret with SCI

About Us:

Attain is a place for great ideas and the people who have them. As a management, technology, and strategy consulting firm, our professionals provide innovative solutions to revolutionize government, education, health, and nonprofit organizations and positively impact those they serve. We are business analysts, technologists, digital strategists, managers of change, and forward thinkers, with the entrepreneurial drive to shape the future. Our team is present in 40 states and the District of Columbia.

Visit www.attain.com/careers to explore your path forward with Attain.