Summary
GAMA-1 is seeking a qualified remote IT Business Analyst II – Scrum Master candidate to join our team in supporting a large-scale government program. The IT Business Analyst II – Scrum Master plays a critical role in an Agile Release Train of the Scaled Agile Framework and is expected to act as a lean-agile leader, and team coach to deliver added value to the stakeholders. Prefer demonstrated experience in leading by example, instilling lean, agile practices, and guiding with the necessary system-thinking mindset to achieve higher productivity.
The candidate must be forward-thinking and possess a passion for providing facilitation and guidance for agile teams that are rapidly delivering value to their customers, leveraging concepts of Agile SAFe, Lean, and Kanban.
Responsibilities
- Work with teams to facilitate and guide engineers and staff on agile practices.
- Drive cross team impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination.
- Collaborate with Product Owner and team to collectively plan cycles, team sync, backlog refinement, and continuous communications.
- Facilitate team events, coach the teams, and assist them to deliver added value by closely working with Product Owner and Enterprise Architect & Management.
- Identify and proactively work to remove barriers, influence decisions, and improve the entire delivery system.
- Help the team and ART end-users understand their impact on the overall picture of the decision-making process.
- Prepare and support ART PI Planning
Essential Skills / Qualifications
- Certification: CSM or PSM, with a SAFe Certification
- Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills; prior experience working in a matrix and geographically distributed organization
- Mastery in managing and facilitating across teams
- At least 3 years of demonstrated Scrum Master experience, or similar technical role in a software development environment
- At least 1 year demonstrated experience in SAFe
- At least 3 years of software delivery management covering all aspects of SDLC
- 2 years of experience with Project Management Tools: MS Project, SharePoint, Jira, Office 365, Slack
- Ability to work concurrently with 3-5 Scrum Teams
- Demonstrate drive, initiative, and creativity
- Logical, organized, and execution oriented
Desired Skills
- Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) preferred.
- PI Planning experience.
- Understanding cloud computing technologies, IT business drivers, and emerging computing trends and technologies.
- Experience in the Federal Sector is a plus.
- Additional Certification: CSPO Certification, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, Agile Project Management (e.g. Jira/Confluence/MS Project), AWS/MS Azure Certifications.
Education
- BS or higher in a technology-related field. MS/MBA is a plus
Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance
The base salary range for this position is: $108,113.03 - $152,400.30
What We Do
GAMA-1 is a highly-technical Certified Small Disadvantaged Business with a mature service delivery model. We combine industry and government standards with established GAMA-1 methodologies to develop, engineer, secure, implement, and maintain IT solutions and services. We refine our methods through continuous process improvement and hold International Organization of Standards (ISO) 9001 (Quality), ISO 20000 (ITSM), and ISO 27001 (Security) certifications. We train our staff on IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v4 and apply Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Services Level 3 processes.
GAMA-1 is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for two consecutive years. This prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at GAMA-1 Technologies. This year, 97% of employees said it’s a great workplace compared to 57% of typical U.S.-based company employees.
