Scrum Master TS/SCI with POLY

Company: Leidos
Location: Reston
Posted on: February 16, 2020

Job Description:

Description Job Description:Why wake up every day and want more when YOU CAN HAVE IT? Do you love KNOWING at the end of each day that your work made a difference? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work with one of the BEST in government contracting? Ranked by Forbes in 2018 as a Top 100 government contractor and one of the World's Most Ethical Companies, Team Leidos is one you don't want to overlook. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. We embrace and solve some of the world's toughest challenges. We're focused on ensuring our intelligence customers have the right tools, technologies, and tactics to keep pace with an ever-evolving threat landscape and succeed in their mission to protect people and critical assets around the world. Who wouldn't be fulfilled being part of that every day? We know once you join Team Leidos, you are sure to go home at the end of every day knowing YOU MADE A DIFFERENCE, resulting in one of the most REWARDING careers you could have imagined. WE WANT YOU!!This role requires an experienced Agile Scrum Master to work in a Government IC environment. The Scrum Master will be responsible for one or more agile development teams as part of a larger Agile Release Train (ART) delivering value to the customer using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as the agile framework. The Scrum Master helps educate the team in scrum to ensure that the agreed agile process are being followed. They also help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement. The Scrum Master ensures the team commitments at the Program Increment Planning Event (PIPE) are met. Finally, this role facilitates horizontal communication across team member to identify any impediments that may prevent team progress while working mitigation plans as needed.Primary ResponsibilitiesResponsible for ensuring the team is making progress against its Program Increment commitments.Protects the team from scope creep during execution of the PI..Helps removes impediments for the team and raises larger issues to the Release Train Engineer.Help other team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate; support team in meeting their deliveyr goals.Supports and enforces Scrum process and other rules.Helps the team coordinate with other teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) and communicates status to management as needed.Works with the Product Owner to review and prioritize features.Leads and facilitates SAFe ceremonies to include sprint planning, sprint review, demos, sprint retro, PI planning, etc.Work with Product Owner to develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria.Supervise othersBasic QualificationsExperience working as a Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer or Product OwnerSignificant experience providing technical/management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments.Experience leading teams through the delivery of capabilities (software development or infrastructure modernization) using agile methodologiesSignificant experience establishing goals and plans that meet project objectives.Experience supervising others.Candidate must have BS degree with and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters 6-10 with years of prior relevant experience.Due to the nature of the government contracts we support, Those authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship are encouraged to apply.ship is required.Candidate must have an active TS/SCI with Poly.Preferred QualificationsSafe Agilist Certificationcrum Alliance Scrum Master CertificationExperience using SAFe as the agile development methodology.Previous software development or infrastructure experience"External Referral Eligible"NSOINTExternal Referral Bonus:EligiblePotential for Telework:NoClearance Level Required:Top Secret/SCI with PolygraphTravel:NoScheduled Weekly Hours:40Shift:DayRequisition Category:ProfessionalJob Family:Systems EngineeringLeidos is a Fortune 500-- information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 33,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $10.19 billion for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2018. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here.Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information at any part of the employment application process. And Leidos will communicate with you only through emails that are sent from a Leidos.com email address. If you receive an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information, please report the email to spam.leidos@leidos.com.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws. - provided by Dice

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