Program Manager/Scrum Master

Description of Task to be Performed:

AnaVation is looking for a skilled Program Manager with strong organizational skills and Scrum Master Experience to join our growing team. The selected candidate will be responsible for overall program performance and will play a key leadership role in our exciting work program. Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

· Oversee the full project management life-cycle for teams supporting operational, mission-focused programs.

· Brief stakeholders on project performance including contract deliverables, staffing, risk management/risk mitigation, and schedule.

· Ensure delivery on budget, in scope, on schedule, and with high quality.

· Collaborate with customers to define project scope and schedule, while providing value.

· Formulate and enforce work standards, assign program schedules, review work, supervise program personnel, and communicate policies, purpose, and goals to team members.

· Organize and lead project standing and ad hoc meetings.

· Manage and report variances with all team leads and customers on a continuing basis.

· Recommend information technology and team execution strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.

· Coordinate Configuration Change Board (CCB).

· Produce monthly financial reports, to include all required invoice documentation

· Communicate effectively and timely with customers, employees, and other contractors.

· Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.

· Maintain adequate staffing levels, ensuring timely backfill of any open positions.

· Serve as Scrum Master for a cross functional team performing full lifecycle development, adhering to Agile methodology.

· Ensure that the agreed upon Agile process is being followed by leading scrum teams focused on system, security, and software requirements and milestones.

· Facilitate key agile ceremonies, e.g., daily huddles, backlog grooming, sprint demos, sprint retrospective, and sprint planning.

· Guide team to be self-organized, promoting joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues within a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement.

· Provide targeted communication to all stakeholders to ensure clear understanding of dependencies, deliverables, and issues to manage stakeholder expectations.

· Support continuous innovation by implementing best practices to improve technology tools and processes to increase team efficiency and technical execution.

This position is primarily on-site in Quantico, VA and requires a Top Secret clearance and the ability to obtain an CI clearance with a polygraph.

Required Qualifications:

• Five (5) or more years systems administration experience, consisting of managing and maintaining Windows AD environment on premise and/or cloud;
• Experience in Microsoft SCCM / MECM for deploying software, enforcing security patch compliance and reporting;
• Mastery knowledge and experience managing and maintaining Cisco’s UCS, VMware virtualized server/workstation environment, AWS hybrid cloud and storage platforms including EMC Isilon NAS and Ceph Linux based storage platforms; and
• Experience in datacenter, server environment, and installing and supporting production servers and user workstation enterprise environment;




Education: Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree or Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Degree in a technical or business field.

Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification desired, but not required. The selected candidate will be encouraged to gain this certification.