Description
SAIC seeks a motivated and enthusiastic Scrum Master to support the Ground Based Radar (GBR) Maintenance and Sustainment Services (GMASS) contract. This contract supports operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars critical to US and Allied strategic missile warning, missile defense, and space domain awareness missions in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A well-qualified candidate should have a desire to facilitate Agile Release Train (ART) events, processes, and assist teams in delivering mission and customer value. Scrum Masters will communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement on our program.
Major duties of the position include:
Serve as a facilitator of ART level events and processes including Value Stream Mapping, Roadmap creation, Backlog management, Program Increment (PI) Planning, Product Owner Sync, Scrum of Scrums, PI Review, Demonstrations, Retrospectives, and Inspect and Adapt Workshops
Serve as an Agile coach working with mission owners, stakeholders (including customers), Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Kanban leads, and Team members to ensure the processes and practices of the program align with the purposes and desired business and mission outcomes of Agile/DevSecOps principles
Establish and track key ART level metrics and regularly communicate these metrics to program/technical leadership and relevant stakeholders
Improve the flow of value through Value Streams by improving and assessing the practices associated with DevSecOps and Release on Demand in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Facilitate Regular System Demos that show Acceptance Criteria has been met and are a vehicle for selling off Features to Stakeholders
Assess the Agility level of the ART and drive relentless improvement including refresher training and skills path guidance aligned with the program and company's training opportunities.
Foster Communities of Practice (CoP) and the use of Engineering and Built-In Quality practices
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of related experience
Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance
Experience as a Scrum Master on moderate to large size ART (100-150 people)
Demonstrated Program/Project Management and/or leadership skills
Experience driving continuous improvement and common processes across diverse stakeholder groups
Desired Qualifications:
Proficient with Atlassian Tools (Jira and Confluence), Microsoft Office Suite, and PowerBI
Possess industry recognized Agile, and/or Scrum certification (PMI, Scaled Agile, Scrum.org, Scrum Inc., or Scrum Alliance)
Worked within the DoD on larger programs implementing SAFe across a single or multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs)
Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2412468
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
