Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Join our Strategic Innovation Center in Herndon, VA as a Scrum Master and support exciting projects across Peraton in areas such as communications, space, cybersecurity, defense, health, and mobile.  You’ll have the opportunity to work in a collaborative, supportive environment that allows you to grow your skills and your career while building experience in a variety of different projects and domains. 

The initial assignment will involve serving as the Scrum Master for multiple teams simulataneously within our Internal Research and Development (IRAD) program and may include tasks such as:

• Leading and coordinating team participation in all Agile ceremonies. 
• Prioritizing features, user stories, and identifying team velocity.
• Working with Product Owners to identify priorities, participate in Sprint Reviews, Backlog Refinement, and lead team daily stand-up meetings.
• Working collaboratively among cross-functional teams.
• Providing support to the Technical Director, the Release Train Engineer (RTE), and Senior Leadership. Coordinating across teams to facilitate synergy and success for Peraton research projects.
• Leading teams in working on unusually complex technical problems and providing product solutions in accordance with Agile Methodologies.
• Facilitate teams in breaking down large scale objectives into manageable epics and stories
• Creating and updating user stories in GitLab.
• Submitting status reports and deliverables.
• Developing and delivering working level and senior leadership briefs.
• Understanding Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) processes and how to utilize these within day to day activities.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of Bachelors w/ 5 years of experience or Masters w/ 3 YOE in the IT field, including at least two years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Experience working with Agile development tools, such as GitLab, JIRA, Confluence, and/or Artifactory
• Strong leadership skills and ability to foster collaborative relationships at all levels of engineering and management
• Must be comfortable leading multiple teams as a Scrum Master, driving alignment and Agile practices
• Ability to resolve project impediments quickly and accurately
• Good organizational skills, with an ability to prioritize work and multitask
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, responsible team-player
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Must be a US Citizen with ability to obtain a clearance in the future

Desired Qualifications:

• Existing certification as a Scrum Master
• Existing security clearance

Location:

This is a Hybrid role, candidate's must live within 20 miles of Herndon, VA.

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.