Description

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The Leidos National Security Sector combines technology-enabled services and mission software capabilities in the areas of cyber, logistics, security operations, and decision analytics to support our defense and intel customers’ mission to defend against evolving threats around the world. Our team’s focus is to ensure our customers have the right tools, technologies, and tactics to keep pace with an ever-evolving security landscape and succeed in their pursuit to protect people and critical assets.

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The National Security Sector at Leidos is currently hiring for a Scrum Master for an Agile, cloud-based data, and analytics platform contract. You will work together with DevOps and software engineers, development teams, business analysts, human centered designers, test engineers, and PMO to conduct release and sprint planning using SAFe Agile methodology to accurately evaluate scope and schedule of work, identify release and sprint backlogs, lead daily scrum meetings and demos, and remove obstacles to enable the teams to deliver high-quality, working code. You will be the champion of your team, conducting regular data-driven retrospectives, and working actively to improve the process and drive team productivity. You will bring your team leadership experience to anticipate project and implementation issues, to proactively support areas that may become a concern, to manage technical debt, and to ensure successful delivery. You are curious: you ask why, you explore, you are familiar with latest and greatest open-source tools, and always fascinated by what’s possible and what could be better. You must be self-driven, and feel ownership over the project, team, and process. This role is expected to be on-site at a Leidos facility in Gaithersburg, MD, with travel to various government sites in the Washington Metro Area. This opportunity is contingent upon contract award.

What you’ll be doing:

• Coach a disciplined, distributed, fast-moving Agile team and program through Agile/Scrum ceremonies.
• Perform release and sprint planning.
• Assess the Agile maturity of the team and coach the team to contribute to relentless improvement of the overall program
• Remove impediments and coach the team to remove impediments.
• Build and maintain a high performing team by improving team dynamics and coaching the team to maximize self-organization.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Promote proper documentation of the work within the development and systems engineering teams.
• Work across the stakeholders to ensure effective solutions are delivered. 
• Assist with internal and external communication, improve transparency, and radiating information
• Support the systems engineer in managing the team backlog and foster a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal, time management, and problem-solving skills.

What does Leidos need from me?

• Must be a U.S. citizen or have a Green Card.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance (Background Investigation). 
• Bachelors degree in a technical discipline preferred with four to eight years prior relevant experience, or a Masters degree with two to six years of prior relevant experience. Alternatively, eight to 12 years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) certification.
• Four to eight plus years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar role.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong knowledge and experience with SAFe and other Agile methodologies for software development.
• Experience with task and ticket management tools such as Atlassian JIRA and GitHub.
• Proven ability to balance concurrent activities.
• Ability to quickly build rapport and keep a positive and motivated team environment.

Favorable if you have:

• Experience and knowledge with Azure Cloud and other Azure DevOps applications and tools.
• Familiarity with modern development approaches (serverless, containerization, cloud, continuous delivery, micro-services, event-based applications).
• Experience with cloud deployment and cloud-based solutions.
   

Original Posting Date:

2024-04-10

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $81,250.00 – $146,875.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.