Important: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
Join an outstanding team that offers exciting job opportunities! Here at BCT-LLC every project, client and team member is unique, and we celebrate and leverage that fact through embracing unique methods and talents that drive results!!!!
BCT-LLC is looking for an experienced SCRUM Professional to work in our High Performance Computing Program. The qualified individual must possess an active TS/SCI with Polygraph. This position is located in Annapolis Junction, MD.
- Helping software development teams apply the Scrum framework
- Planning deliverables and helping teams monitor performance
- Resolving issues that hinder the teams’ work
Ultimately, you’ll help create self-organizing teams that are flexible and fully productive during sprints.
Scrum experience and skills
You should have excellent knowledge of the scrum framework, with all its artifacts and techniques. You’ll also need the ability to coordinate people and projects (occasionally facilitating changes) with your mind set on deliverables. If you’re a strong communicator, a capable leader and you’re invested in Agile frameworks, we’d like to meet you.
Responsibilities
- Manage each project’s scope and timeline
- Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
- Coach team members in Agile frameworks
- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
- Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders)
- Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
- Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
- Help teams implement changes effectively
- Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
- Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
- Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it
Requirements and skills
- Experience with JIRA would be a bonus capability
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Sciences or related discipline from an accredited college or university and
- eight (8) years or more experience in software development
- An additional four (4) years of software development experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a Bachelor's Degree
OR
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university
- fourteen (14) years or more experience of experience in software development is required.
- An additional four (4) years of software development experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a Bachelor's Degree.
- Familiarity with software development
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
- Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks
- Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Degree in Computer Science, Business or similar field
- Scrum master certification is a plus
