Booz Allen Hamilton is hiring a Scrum Master to support a development team modernizing critical projects for defense and national security industries. In this role, you will apply Agile best practices to coach the team, facilitate ceremonies, and ensure successful project progression.
What You'll Do
- Coach a development team to focus on sprint goals and ensure the project is successfully progressed.
- Apply basic Scrum principles and concepts to resolve routine problems.
- Strengthen sustainable process improvements using tools like Jira to help the team execute Agile Ceremonies.
- Facilitate sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Support the management team in communicating with clients and stakeholders to manage expectations.
- Collect and write detailed user stories and work with the team and client to identify associated tasks and acceptance criteria.
- Analyze business processes and work with the project team to implement and improve processes.
- Maintain a product backlog, support QA and requirement validation.
- Meet with various stakeholders to discuss needs and provide suggestions during stakeholder interviews and requirements gathering.
- Provide documentation for new efforts, including level of effort analysis, plans or timelines, and requirements documents.
What We're Looking For
- 2+ years of experience as the Scrum Master of an engineering team
- Experience with Jira
- Experience managing and integrating Jira boards for multiple teams under one project
- Experience leading client delivery engagements and working with senior-level client management
- Experience teaching basic Agile framework concepts to technical teams
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
- Bachelor's degree
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of project management frameworks
- Knowledge of DoD and systems engineering processes
- Possession of excellent problem-solving skills, to provide technical assistance to IT development teams
- Possession of excellent interpersonal skills, to successfully interact with clients, engineers, and managers
- Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Secret clearance
Technical Stack
- Jira
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation range: $61,900.00 to $141,000.00 (annualized USD)
- Health benefits
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Financial benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Paid leave
- Professional development
- Tuition assistance
- Work-life programs
- Dependent care
- Recognition awards program
Work Mode
This position follows a hybrid work model.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.
