Agile Scrum Master / Business Analyst (Remote DC/MD/VA)

Govcio LLC

21d•$140,000 - $160,000•Remote

About The Position

GovCIO is seeking an experienced Agile Scrum Master/Business Analyst to support one of our cross-functional delivery teams. This position is 100% remote within the DC Metropolitan area with occasional on-site meetings.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree with 10+ yrs experience (or commensurate experience)
5+ years of experience working in Agile environment
Be a Certified Scrum Master with 3+ years of in-role experience
Strong leadership skills with experience independently running scrum teams
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
Ability to explain intricate and complicated concepts and ideas
Proficiency configuring and using Atlassian Jira boards and dashboards
Ability to obtain and maintain a Suitability/Public Trust

Nice To Haves

SAFe certified
Understanding of the software development lifecycle, release and change management, testing and quality assurance, DevSecOps, and other IT delivery practices
Understanding of AWS GovCloud infrastructure, data flows, and integrations

Responsibilities

Act as a servant-leader for an Agile team, ensuring they follow Agile Scrum practices, principles, and values.
Coach the team to adopt and implement the Agile Scrum framework to include disciplines and ceremonies that promote mutual clarity, transparency, and collaboration.
Help the product owner create and maintain product delivery timelines, find techniques for effective product backlog management, and identify/manage delivery risks.
Work closely with the product owner and development team to plan and execute sprints, remove impediments to progress, and drive continuous improvement.
Facilitate Scrum events: daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review and demo, retrospective, program increment planning, and others to ensure the team achieves its objectives.
Act as a liaison to improve communication between the program teams, fostering mutual trust and understanding of progress against program goals.
Lead process development to create new and improve existing process documentation for program operations to enable desired outcomes.
Analyze stakeholder requirements and create requirements documents that can be decomposed into concise and testable user stories for technical implementation.
Create detailed user stories, including definition of done and acceptance criteria, and any additional information to assist development.