Scrum Master/ Business Systems Analyst

Scrum Master/ Business Systems Analyst

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

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The Opportunity:
CACI’s Agile Solution Factory (ASF) is hiring an experienced Agile Scrum Master with strong Business Analyst experience. The candidate will have Agile Scrum/Kanban delivery experience and project management experience to support a key program based in Ashburn, VA.  The candidate will apply CACI agile methodologies to meet obligations.  The candidate will be the primary POC for government stakeholders and will use oral and written communications skills to develop great working relationships with the government stakeholders. This position is responsible for ensuring that all assigned work activities are performed in a timely and cost-effective manner while maintaining the highest quality of performance. The candidate will meet regularly with customer stakeholders to identify and agree upon business requirements and timelines for assigned projects, clearly communicate those business needs to Scrum Development Team, work collaboratively with customer stakeholders and Development Team to decompose high-level business requirements into user stories / Backlogs (functional requirements) – all of which help facilitate the delivery of deployable software in 2-week increments (sprints). The individual must be able to work independently with little supervision and solve complex problems.

Responsibilities:

Serves as the authorized project interface with project stakeholders including government personnel and customer agency representatives. Responsible for facilitating delivery of customer-defined software development projects; basic responsibilities include:

Scrum Master Responsibilities:

• Acting as Scrum Master for a scrum team with a focus on guiding the team toward improving the way they work by facilitating scrums, sprint planning, retrospective and demos.
• Removing all obstacles/impediments to further team efficiency and effectiveness by reaching out to the larger organizational network for impediment removal, and ensuring cross-team coordination
• Maintaining relevant metrics that help the team see how they are performing and facilitating team implementation of improvement opportunities identified through metrics analysis.
• Ensures that product scrum teams function consistent with CACI ASF (Agile Solution Factory) methodologies.
• Fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines
• Supporting development and maintenance of product roadmaps
• Actively participating in the organization Agile Community of Practice (CoP)
• Work with program/portfolio leadership to ensure appropriate staffing for assigned projects or tasks and developing personnel.
• Providing appropriate oversight to engineers, analysts, and support personnel
• Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and removing impediments.
• Working with the program ASF Center of Excellence (CoE) to develop new and refine existing processes to enhance quality and productivity.
• Reviewing and evaluating work of staff and preparing periodic performance reports
• Facilitate the demonstrations to stakeholder and report on the results of each software delivery iteration.
• Lead the software development initiatives working with multiple teams, identify/resolve dependencies and monitor the schedule for the completion on time.
• Support the scrum team in achieving daily, iteration, and release goals and delivery objectives.
• Provide mentoring and training on agile processes, methods, and practices.
• Coaching, leading, facilitating ceremonies, and holding team and yourself accountable.
• Facilitate positive team dynamics to help maximize team performance.

Business Analyst Responsibilities:

• Acting as proxy Product Owner and assists the customer product owner with managing the product backlog.
• Meet with government stakeholders in multiple organizations to develop complete functional requirements and business rules.
• Support developing and maintaining product roadmaps.
• Liaising between developers and project stakeholders
• Actively participating in the organization Agile Community of Practice (CoP)
• Analyzing new and complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving prioritizing/ordering of requirements, technology, methodology, tools, and solution components
• Working wit