IT Business Analyst II – Scrum Master

IT Business Analyst II – Scrum Master
Job Summary
GAMA-1 is seeking a qualified IT Business Analyst II – Scrum Master candidate to join our team in supporting a large-scale government program. The IT Business Analyst II – Scrum Master plays a critical role in an Agile Release Train of the Scaled Agile Framework and is expected to act as a lean-agile leader, and team coach to deliver added value to the stakeholders. Prefer demonstrated experience in leading by example, instilling lean, agile practices, and guiding with the necessary system-thinking mindset to achieve higher productivity.
The candidate must be forward-thinking and possess a passion for providing facilitation and guidance for agile teams that are rapidly delivering value to their customers, leveraging concepts of Agile SAFe, Lean, and Kanban.
Responsibilities

• Work with teams to facilitate and guide engineers and staff on agile practices.
• Drive cross team impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination.
• Collaborate with Product Owner and team to collectively plan cycles, team sync, backlog refinement, and continuous communications.
• Facilitate team events, coach the teams, and assist them to deliver added value by closely working with Product Owner and Enterprise Architect & Management.
• Identify and proactively work to remove barriers, influence decisions, and improve the entire delivery system.
• Help the team and ART end-users understand their impact on the overall picture of the decision-making process.
• Prepare and support ART PI Planning

Essential Skills / Qualifications

• Certification: CSM or PSM, with a SAFe Certification
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills; prior experience working in a matrix and geographically distributed organization
• Mastery in managing and facilitating across teams
• At least 3 years of demonstrated Scrum Master experience, or similar technical role in a software development environment
• At least 1 year demonstrated experience in SAFe
• At least 3 years of software delivery management covering all aspects of SDLC
• 2 years of experience with Project Management Tools: MS Project, SharePoint, Jira, Office 365, Slack
• Ability to work concurrently with 3-5 Scrum Teams
• Demonstrate drive, initiative, and creativity
• Logical, organized, and execution oriented
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

Desired Skills

• Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) preferred.
• PI Planning experience.
• Understanding cloud computing technologies, IT business drivers, and emerging computing trends and technologies.
• Experience in the Federal Sector is a plus.
• Additional Certification: CSPO Certification, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, Agile Project Management (e.g. Jira/Confluence/MS Project), AWS/MS Azure Certifications.

Education

• BS or higher in a technology-related field. MS/MBA is a plus.

The base salary range for this position is: $108,113.03 - $152,400.30