Unisity, LLC · 14 hours ago
Scrum Master, Senior
Annapolis Junction, Maryland
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $190K/yr
5+ years expUnisity, LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business providing expert services in the Information Technology fields. They are seeking a Senior Scrum Master to facilitate agile teams in a large-scale software and hardware integration effort, ensuring adherence to agile processes and helping to remove impediments to team progress.
Information Services
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Facilitate self-organizing team(s) to ensure progress is being made against Program Increment (PI) commitments
Protect the team from scope creep during execution of the PI
Remove impediments and coordinate with the Release Train Engineers on implementing solutions
Help team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate
Coach, support, and enforce Scrum process and other process rules
Ensure that the team has a clear understanding of the Definition of Done and how to meet it
Coordinate with other teams on the Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and communicate status to management
Work with the Product Owner(s) to review and prioritize features
Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies to include Sprint Planning and Sprint Reviews to include demos, Sprint Retrospectives, and PI Planning
Work with Product Owner(s) and System Engineers to develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria
Maintain and generate information radiators for the teams
Collect and share team metrics with the team, determine when new metrics are needed, and develop improvements in metrics
Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles with the goal of continuous improvement
Observe team dynamics, recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team member contributions, and coach the team as a whole to drive improvements in productivity
Promote teamwork to achieve Sprint goals
Lead teams towards Agile maturity
Create a fun, sharing, and learning environment
Experiment with various ideas to improve delivery, including pair-programming and cross-functional training
Qualification
Required
At least 5 years of experience working as a Full Time Scrum Master for a software development or similar technical team
Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP)
Significant, hands-on experience using agile project management tools (e.g. Jira, VersionOne, Rallye, IBM RTC)
At least 4 years of experience working on a large technical program, with varied and diverse systems and groups in a fast-paced, always rapidly evolving environment
Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and time management skills
Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with customer appropriate polygraph)
Preferred
Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field
Experience working with large software systems including hardware integration and test
Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical development teams
Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology
Experience using Kanban as a means to improve flow on support teams
Experience affecting change in organizations working towards agile adoption
Experience applying test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the team
Benefits
Unisity, LLC believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. The company automatically contributes an additional 12% of each employee's gross compensation to the company 401k plan, with no requirement for employee matching. All contributions are fully vested from day one, ensuring immediate ownership of retirement funds.
A Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA)
Vision and Dental
Unisity, LLC provides an additional 12% of employee's gross compensation to be used for benefits, any remaining funds are then forwarded to the employee as taxable income
Life and AD&D Benefits (Company Paid)
Short and Long-Term Disability (Company Paid)
Company
Unisity, LLC
Unisity, LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business company providing expert services in the Information Technology fields supporting a wide variety of customers in various environments.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase