Senior Scrum Master

Peraton is seeking a Scrum Master in our Chantilly, VA office in support of an IC customer as part of a highly talented, highly motivated, and high-performing team. You will support an exciting program that supports the development, delivery, and maintenance of solutions for the customer’s data engineering office. Your responsibilities will include, but limited to:

• Serve as liaisons between the product owner, O&M team, cross functional teams, and management to ensure all targets and requirements are included in the release.
• Coach the team on how to self-organize and plan work into enabling features and stories along program increments and sprints
• Remove individual and team impediments and guide the team to remove impediments
• Outline and prioritize work based on program initiatives and business value.
• Coordinate and monitor the Scrum process from initiation through delivery to ensure the release is developed by the deadline and within budget
• Maintain product backlog and facilitate productivity by removing impediments, resolving conflicts, and constantly seeking efficient and effective process improvement.
• Preserve flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes.
• Ensure process standardization of all Scrum events to include but not limited to: Sprint Planning Meetings, Daily Stand-up Meetings, Reviews and Retrospectives.
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters within the program to share knowledge and best practices.
• Experience with teaching technical teams basic to advanced Agile concepts including Epic and User Story creation, Scrum, best practices and tools.

Required

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD; 10 years in lieu of degree.
• Experience as Scrum Master with in-depth knowledge of delivering projects/tasks to the Customer. 
• Strong knowledge of DevOps and Agile methodologies.
• Experience with ServiceNow and/or JIRA Ticketing systems. 
• TS SCI with poly

Desired

• Experience with creating dashboards and/or metrics with Jira/Confluence.
• Knowledge of AWS or AWS GovCloud & native AWS administrative tools and dashboards.
• Experience with scrum project management, agile software development, and software version control management

• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Experience with cloud computing service including enterprise architecture, application planning, and deployment
• Experience with providing data driven metrics at customer and stakeholder engagements that lead to solution driven development and completion of tasks

• Experience managing, coaching, and mentoring teams.
• Experience aligning multiple teams with different agile methodologies to ensure a quality software product and customer satisfaction.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.