Position: Scrum Master
Location: Pax River, MD
Position Type: Full-Time
Cintel is looking for a Agile Coach/Scrum Master to join our team.
Position Summary:
- Identification, implementation, and coaching of modern Product/Project management approaches for complex software-intensive projects.
- Work with teams at both the Portfolio level and solution level to assist in developing strategic themes, creating portfolio visions, and prioritizing the portfolio backlog.
- Developing overall product roadmaps. These roadmaps shall identify the delivery of minimum viable products (MVPs) and minimum viable capability releases (MVCRs). Additionally, these product roadmaps shall include timing and the required functionality needed by external, independent programs.
- Assist in developing Epic Statements, along with lean budgets and lean schedules for the Epics.
- Provide training and coaching in Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) techniques. These LPM techniques shall help determine how much and which value streams to fund, develop lean business cases, agile forecasting, and estimating, and establish objective measures and milestones leading to the delivery of working solutions to fleet end-users.
- Provide training as well as day-to-day support to cultivate and improve all team members to become productive Agile Practitioners.
- Guide scrum-team through all sprints of a program increment, removing impediments and championing the team
- Organize and facilitate sprint planning and release planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other agile related events
- Track and communicate team metrics and sprint/release progress to all teams and management
- Assist the scrum team in developing and estimating user stories that are clearly articulated with well-defined acceptance criteria
- Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
- Assist with internal and external communication
- Assist product owners with backlog grooming
- Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
- Determine and remove impediments that interfere with the ability of the teams to deliver assigned goals
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
- Promote continuous improvement and help teams to increase velocity
- Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters experimentation, creativity and innovation
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, and work experience
- Experience leading Agile Scrum teams in a cloud environment
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps and /or software/application development processes
- Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques
- Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with Atlassian Agile Products; specifically JIRA and Confluence
- Must be a U.S. Citizen.
Desired Qualifications:
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5+ years of experience working within the DoD or IC Community
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Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification
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Scaled Agile Framework for the enterprise (SAFe) Agilist Certification
CULTURE REQUIREMENTS:
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Engineers, Analysts, and Developers at Cintel, Inc. are highly motivated, technical, and self‐organized. We place a lot of trust in our team members to develop technical solutions for ill‐defined problems (i.e. thrive in an environment where the problem is vague, requirements are lacking, and a solution is not obvious). We need problem solvers.
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We want our team members to be self‐motivated and eager to learn new skills. If you consider yourself a jack‐of‐all‐trades, and are eager to keep up with the latest trends in technology, you’ll fit right in.
ABOUT CINTEL, INC:
Cintel Inc. is a Small Business providing strategies and services to support an array of Government clients in Software Development, Operational/Tactical and Installation/Facilities Energy, Cyber Security, Modeling and Simulation, Data Science, and Programmatic support.
We offer our clients nimble, unique, and value focused solutions with an emphasis on people, connectivity, communication, and teamwork. Our team believes that people drive solutions. By connecting people, information, teams, and experience we deliver solutions that respond to customer needs.
It is the policy of Cintel that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability, genetic information, or veteran status. These policies shall ensure that the practice of nondiscrimination will be applied in the employment, promotion, upgrading, demotion, transfer, layoff, termination, recall or rehire of personnel. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training.
Cintel, Inc. expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment or discrimination based on any of the characteristics mentioned above. Improper interference with the ability of other employees to perform their expected job duties is not tolerated.