Scrum Master- REMOTE in District of Columbia
Scrum Master- REMOTE - ThunderYard - District of Columbia - work from home job Company: ThunderYard Job description: The Challenge: Are you passionate about outcomes and supporting a development team that’s creating efficiency in VA healthcare? As a Scrum master, you know the importance of Agile best practices and how to combat challenges early to get work done. We need a Scrum master like you to help us accomplish critical projects that’ll modernize the face of our Veterans healthcare. On our team, you’ll apply your functional knowledge to coach a development team to focus on sprint goals, ensuring the project is successfully progressed. You’ll apply basic Scrum principles and concepts to resolve routine problems. Using tools like Jira and Microsoft Office applications, you’ll strengthen sustainable process improvements to help your team accomplish sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. In this role, you’ll directly impact veterans by modernizing software platforms for veterans. This is an opportunity to grow your experience in tactical planning and delivery while developing and contributing to a variety of project solutions that will improve veteran’s access to healthcare. This position is open to remote delivery anywhere within the U.S., to include the District of Columbia. Work with us as we strengthen operational excellence for VA healthcare. Join us. The world can’t wait. Basic Qualifications:
- 2-3 years’ experience in a Scrum Master role
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification or other Scrum Master certification required
- Familiarity with software development and the SDLC
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
- Familiarity with other Agile frameworks and techniques such as Kanban, ATDD, TDD, continuous integration, continuous testing, pairing, or Agile games
- Knowledge of techniques used to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach, numerous Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, or handling bugs
- Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
- Experience with problem-solving and conflict-resolution
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Experience with MS Teams online collaboration tools
- Ability to communicate technical ideas in a non-technical way
- Ability to facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust
- Bachelor’s degree
Additional Qualifications:
- Experience using Atlassian tools (e.g. Jira)
- Ability to educate teams on refining and maintaining the product backlog
- Ability to help software development teams apply the Scrum framework
- Experience planning deliverables and helping teams monitor performance
- Experience resolving issues that hinder the teams’ work
- Manage each project’s scope and timeline
- Ability to coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
- Ability to facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
- Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Vetting: Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client. ThunderYard Solutions is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We don’t just accept difference – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our community, and our customers. All applicants will be considered for employment without discrimination of race, color, religion, or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status, protected veteran status, family medical history or genetic information. Scrum Master- REMOTE - ThunderYard - District of Columbia - work from home job Expected salary: Location: District of Columbia Scrum Master- REMOTE - ThunderYard - District of Columbia - work from home job Job date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 23:20:40 GMT Apply for the job now! Scrum Master- REMOTE - ThunderYard - District of Columbia - work from home job Apply to this Apply Job! Apply to this Job