Senior Scrum Master

Leidos is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to be part of the mission solution and help lead SSA’s Digital Modernization Strategy.  Join one of our high performing teams responsible for building the next-generation enterprise APIs and modern responsive user interfaces, supporting the Social Security Administration (SSA) and their mission to meet the changing needs of the public, positively impacting at least 65 million American lives per month.  We are a team of forward-looking professionals in need of a strong candidate with these key required skills: Agile Scrum Master that will utilize Lean Agile and Configuration Management (CM) best practices to standardize IT-project governance across components for its set of corporate applications.  Projects are in various stages of Development, Operations and Maintenance (O&M), and Cloud migration. The Customer requires support for enterprise scrum and CM through leadership in Agile practice and system engineering discipline. 

*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site in Woodlawn, MD 5 days a week.

If this sounds like a mission you want to be a part of, keep reading!

TEAM CULTURE

Your passion and values might be a good fit for our teams if you answer “yes” to the following questions:

• Are you looking for a company that puts employees first, with a focus on career, flexibility, and well-being?
• Do you enjoy collaborating with colleagues and teammates and believe that the best ideas are fostered in an inclusive environment?
• Are you searching for a team with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive for daily mission success?
• Are you comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership?
• Do you enjoy being a catalyst, solving complex problems, and providing innovative solutions?
• Do you have the flexibility, creativity, and resilience to pivot the mission for success?
• Do you have the courage to make tough ethical decisions with pride, transparency, and respect?

MENTORSHIP & CAREER GROWTH

Our teams are dedicated to supporting new team members in an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Experienced team members will be assigned to new hires for one-on-one mentoring, collaborative reviews, and coaching on customer engagement to help each new hire successfully onboard and demonstrate their skills. Projects and tasks are assigned in a way that leverages your strengths and will help you further develop your skillset.

DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES

Every position we take is more rewarding when you know the why behind it. Know your work makes a difference to support those who need it most. If your passion is enabling life changing service to those around, you this is the place for you. Find you passion in a team environment where all members are valued regardless of contractor or employee status.   Find your “Why” with us and take your place in our Leidos Family!!

• Facilitate scrum events like sprint planning, daily standups etc.
• Coaching the team and stakeholders.
• Managing the product backlog.
• Facilitating and guiding the scrum team in adopting and implementing he scrum framework.
• Operate as a facilitator between their team and the leadership and work with the team o ensure their overall success.
• Remove Impediments.
• Guide the team in embracing Agile principles and values.

FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field and 8 years of experience. Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree,
• Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience
• Experience using one or more Systems Development Life Cycle methodologies (i.e. Agile, Waterfall models, etc.)
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience as a Scrum Master
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.

FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE (Required Skills)

These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• Strong communication skills
• Scrum @Scale implementation experience
• Experience mentoring Junior Scrum Masters
• Experience creating training material and teaching scrum processes to product owners and other team members including other scrum masters.
• Extensive applicable knowledge of facilitation techniques, training and application of coaching tools, and models
• Experience with implementing and maintaining Agile project perfor