Scrum Master

Seeking a remote Scrum Master to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Cloud and National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) initiatives. 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. 

Education Requirements:  BS or higher in a technology-related field. MS/MBA is a plus.

Experience:

Required Skills:

• Certification: Scrum Master 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 3 years of software delivery management covering all aspects of SDLC.
• 2 years of experience with Project Mgmt. Tools: MS Project, SharePoint, Jira, Office 365, Slack
• Demonstrate drive, initiative, and creativity.
• Logical, organized, and execution oriented. 
• Pass a US Government Background Investigation
• Be able to obtain a security clearance

Desired skills:

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

Duties/Responsibilities:

The Scrum Master plays a critical role in an Agile Release Train of the Scaled Agile Framework. He/she 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.

• Work with teams to facilitate and guide engineers and staff on agile practices.
• Mastery in managing and facilitation across teams.
• 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