Friday, October 7, 2011

Scrum Master in the Metro DC area

Scrum Master
 A cleared program in Reston, VA has a requirement for an experienced, Certified Scrum Master to lead one or more Agile teams in developing new applications, maintaining and enhancing existing applications, and delivering infrastructure improvements for a Government customer, using the Scrum and/or Kanban methodologies. 

The Scrum Master will be responsible for ensuring team accountability, team results, team performance of Agile methodologies, establishment of appropriate sprint cycles, conduct of quality control gates and effective retrospectives, and team member ownership of impediments for removal or escalation.  The Scrum Master will be the primary contact for the Government for the product planning, product backlog management, release management, agile approach tuning, roadmap management, results reviews, metrics provision, review, and interpretation, and retrospective handling for the team(s). 
Candidate will be responsible for the overall execution of the releases, and participate directly in leading activities and monitoring progress using metrics with minimal supervision.
Basic Qualifications:
Current and active TS clearance with the ability to obtain SCI required.  Bachelors Degree and a minimum of  9 years experience (4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree) in a related IT position with experience throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).  Formal Scrum Master training and certification (certification through Government customer may be considered).  Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master using Agile Scrum methodologies.  Knowledge and understanding of Kanban processes.  Strong facilitation and leadership skills, including leading small teams and managing projects and /or activites through to completion.  Strong customer interface skills; ability to work directly with Government customer as well as with technical performers. 

Desired Qualifications:
Leadership experience (e.g, release manager, technical leadership, small projects).  Experience establishing new Scrum teams and facilitating orientation to Agile processes.  Hands-on experience in one or more technical areas relating to software development projects (systems engineering, software development using Java, Ruby on Rails, other web technologies, software testing, etc.) will be considered a plus. 

For consideration send resumes to jolucas@caci.com

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