Description:

We are looking for a Scrum Master to join our team to support our NHTSA Artemis contract. The contract supports many critical and non-critical applications. This position will be involved with full life cycle software development/DevOps for a federal agency. This is a large-scale IT software development effort implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Work with government and team members to translate product strategy and roadmap into well-defined user stories, features, and enablers that will realize the product vision, improve the customer experience.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Coaches the team to create better Solutions, improve business results, and better their processes.
• Facilitates team meetings, including:
  • Backlog Refinement
  • Iteration Planning
  • Daily Stand-Up
  • Iteration Review
  • Iteration Retrospective
• Facilitates program events (as coordinated with the Release Train Engineer or Executives).
• Removes impediments and barriers to the team’s progress.
• Protects the team from outside influence.
• Tracking and communicating agreed upon team metrics.
• Assists the team in implementing SAFe and working with other teams who may or may not be using SAFe.
• Requirements elicitation: Apply different techniques to facilitate meetings and workshops, create a shared understanding with stakeholders, and engage team-members without using reams of paper or electronic documents.
• Requirements analysis: Collaborates with stakeholders and product teams to decompose large epic stories into features and user stories that can be understood and approved by members of the development team.
• Requirements documentation: Requires a strong experience managing product backlog and product roadmap.
• Strong experience creating user stories and acceptance criteria to express requirements.
• Experience providing product management support such as prioritization and backlog grooming.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or substitute eight years of equivalent work experience.
• At least two (2) years of experience as Business Analyst and experience with User experience.
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience managing IT software development as a Scrum Master.
• Must have experience working with Agile/Scrum.
• Experience working with tracking, testing, source control and Roadmap.
• Strong work ethic, analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills.
• SAFe Certification or equivalent Scrum Master Certification preferred.

Additional Information:

• In order to meet the clearance requirements for this opportunity, candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.
• Ability to pass a US Public Trust background investigation for access to the client site and computing systems. You must have lived in the US for the past three (3) years.
• All candidates will be subject to a complete background check to include, but not limited to Criminal History, Education Verification, Professional Certification Verification, Verification of Previous Employment and Credit History.

About the Company:

• SFI is nationally recognized by Inc. Magazine by being awarded the Inc. 5000 Award in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. We pride ourselves on being one of the premier employers in the VA, MD, DC area.
• Our commitment to excellence in client services and product development means that our people are attentive, hands-on, and bring industry-leading expertise that will meet and exceed your needs in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Every employee at SFI is a leader. We don’t settle. We motivate others to reach their full potential. To learn more about us visit: www.spatialfront.com

Other Information:

• The salary range for this position is $60,000 - $90,000 annually.
• This is a full-time remote position. Please no agencies, third parties, or corp-to-corp.
• Equal-opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.
• Spatial Front Inc. participates in E-Verify.