Scrum Master – Small Team

Scrum Master – Small Team

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Public Trust

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 25%

Type of Travel: Continental US

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The Opportunity:

CACI’s growing Agile Digital Solutions Operating Group is searching for an experienced Scrum Master who will lead small teams to support the modernization and sustainment of a large portfolio of enterprise business solutions used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). You will be a servant leader to an Agile team. In addition, you will interface with client personnel to develop great working relationships with stakeholders including customer Product Owners. 

Responsibilities:

• Coach and lead an agile team within a scaled agile framework 

• Facilitate team breakouts to plan work and create PI objectives during PI Planning 

• Facilitate planning and execution of work during a Program Increment through sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos 

• Facilitate backlog refinement by collaborating with the product owners and business analysts 

• Track and remove impediments to improve agile team’s efficiency and effectiveness; reaching out to the larger organizational network for impediment removal; ensuring cross-team coordination 

• Maintain relevant metrics to understand how well the team is doing and identify areas of improvement 

• Perform capacity planning to help teams plan iterations and increments 

• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to manage dependencies and ensure consistency across teams 

• Liaison with architects, cyber security SMEs, and other stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines 

• Manage product releases and dependencies between teams and third parties or between assigned teams and other Scrum teams 

• Support development of product roadmaps 

• Coach the team to continuously improve and become a high performing team 

• Develop new processes and refine existing processes to enhance quality and productivity 

• Strengthen the presence of the team within the Agile communities of practice and actively contribute to the organization’s Agile Community 

• Provide guidance to the team, and facilitate impediment resolution to meet technical performance and business objectives 

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (will consider experience in lieu of education)

• Five (5) or more years of experience in a Scrum Master, Program/Project Control, Scheduling, Business Analyst or related role

• Have or willing to obtain Certified Scrum Master or Certified SAFe Scrum Master Certification

• Demonstrated experience in an Agile environment

• Demonstrated skill with the MS Suite and Jira

• 2 years of experience leading a team

• Thrive in a technically and geographically diverse environment

• Must be willing to pass NASA background investigation and/or obtain a DOD Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required)

Desired:

• Advanced SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Practitioner, or any other Scaled Agile Certification 

• Experience supporting Federal government projects 

• Experience supporting modernization and cloud initiatives 

• Ability to apply advanced principle