Viderity Inc. is hiring a Scrum Master to lead Agile processes for new development, operations and maintenance (O&M), and end-of-life projects. You will be responsible for overseeing team deliverables and ensuring effective execution of Agile ceremonies.

What You'll Do

Manage new development, O&M, and end-of-life projects using Agile processes.
Oversee all team deliverables on the project.
Conduct all agile team ceremonies including daily standup, product backlog management, iteration planning, retrospectives, and demos/reviews.
Perform story analysis and manage the evolution of the User Story and other backlog items.
Answer ad-hoc questions and provide clarification/direction to development and support teams regarding requirements and product functions.
Collaborate with Product Management and other Technical Team Leads in release planning, including preparing user documentation, release notes, and conducting Release Demos.
Facilitate Quarterly Planning including coordination with dependent teams across the enterprise.

What We're Looking For

Experience with initiating, planning, scheduling, estimating, forecasting, coordinating, controlling, managing, and delivering IT projects.
Experience with Agile processes and ceremonies, including managing and facilitating backlog refinement, iteration planning, daily stand ups, release demos, and retrospectives.
Experience with reviewing story analysis to determine acceptance criteria, definition of ready, and definition of done, along with impact to other systems, projects, domains, and operational teams.
Experience in managing the evolution of User Stories and other backlog items, including breaking down stories, eliciting conversations, and facilitating story refinement sessions.
Knowledge of Agile software development frameworks, including Scaled Agile (SAFe), Kanban, and Scrum.
Ability to collaborate with Product Owners, Business Partners, developers, and architects to build and define Product Backlogs and complete release planning.
Ability to answer ad-hoc questions and provide clarification/direction to development and support teams regarding requirements and product functions.
Ability to anticipate, mitigate, and resolve risks and issues across various workgroups.

Nice to Have

Experience in facilitating troubleshooting sessions with a development team.
Experience in working with agile teams to decentralize decision-making and acting as an escalation point when consensus decisions cannot be reached.
Experience in requirements gathering, development of wireframes, and acceptance criteria.
Experience with JIRA and Confluence.
Knowledge of federal government development lifecycles.
Possession of excellent interpersonal skills including oral and written communication, analytical, problem solving, organizational, issue resolution, and customer relationship management.