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GovCIO · 4 days ago

Scrum Master/Business Analyst (Remote)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$115K/yr - $120K/yr

8+ years exp

GovCIO is currently hiring for an Agile Scrum Master/Business Analyst to support the Readiness and Employment System (RES) contract within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This role involves acting as a servant-leader for an Agile team, facilitating Scrum practices, and conducting process analysis to optimize business workflows.

ConsultingIT InfrastructureIT ManagementManagement Consulting

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Acts as a servant-leader for an Agile team, ensuring they follow Scrum practices while also helping them overcome obstacles and improve continuously

Facilitates team meetings, removes impediments to progress, coaches the team on Agile principles, and helps the product owner find techniques for effective product backlog management in Atlassian Jira

Facilitates and guides the team in adopting and implementing the Scrum framework – which includes organizing and leading Scrum ceremonies, participation in Program Increment Planning, promoting collaboration and ensuring adherence to Scrum principles and values

Works closely with the product owner and development team to plan and execute sprints, daily stand-ups and sprint reviews

Creates and maintains project timelines

Identifies and manages risks and monitors progress against project goals

Facilitates Scrum events: Guides daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and other meetings to ensure they are productive and achieve their objectives

Acts as a liaison to improve communication between the development team and those outside the team, fostering mutual trust and respect

Conducts process analysis and optimization to map, document, and analyze “as is” data collection, business processes, and dissemination workflows to “to be” processes

Manages requirements gathering to elicit and document detailed business requirements from stakeholders and acts as a liaison between operational users and technical teams, translating functional needs into technical specifications

Performs requirements analysis to determine feasibility and to decompose requirements to concise and testable user stories

Creates detailed user stories, including acceptance criteria, and any additional information to assist development

Uses Atlassian Confluence and Jira for epics, stories, tasks, backlog management, sprint planning and Kanban management

Qualification

Agile environment experienceAtlassian JiraLeadership skillsAtlassian ConfluenceCertified Scrum MasterSAFe certifiedProcess analysisRequirements gatheringUser story creationInterpersonal communication