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Description

Leidos is seeking a Scrum Master for a technical development program supporting the Sponsor’s Entitlement Programs as well as IdAM /ICAM, Authentication, Authorization, Attributes and Digital Policy Management. Leidos is looking for a Scrum Master to join a high performing agile team using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology to support a nationally significant and fast-paced program.

Primary Responsibilities

List daily duties and/or specific job responsibilities.

• Responsible for facilitating self-organizing team(s) to ensure the team is making progress against Program Increment commitments

• Protects the team from scope creep during execution of the PI

• Removes impediments for the team and coordinates with the Release Train Engineer in implementing solutions

• Helps team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate

• Supports and enforces Scrum process and other rules

• Ensures that the team has a clear understanding of Definition of Done and how to meet it

• Coordinates with other teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) and communicates status to management

• Works with the Product Owner(s) to review and prioritize features

• Leads and facilitates SAFe ceremonies to include sprint planning, sprint review, demos, sprint retro, and PI planning

• Works with Product Owner(s) to develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria

• Maintains and generates information radiators for the teams

• Collects and shares team metrics with the team, determines when new metrics are needed, and develops improvements in metrics

• Coaches teams on agile and scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement

• Observes team dynamics, recognizes strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coaches the team as a whole driving improvements in productivity

• Creates a fun sharing and learning environment, experimenting with various ideas to improve delivery including pair-programming and cross-functional training

• Promotes teamwork to achieve sprint goals

• Leads teams towards agile maturity

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

•Requires a Bachelor's degree and 18+ years of experience.Additional experience may be substituted for a Degree.

• Experience in working as a Scrum Master or Team Lead for a software development or similar technical team

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP)

• Experience using agile project management tools (e.g. Jira, VersionOne, Rallye, IBM RTC)

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, and time management skills are a must

• Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment, across diverse systems and groups

Original Posting Date:

2024-06-13

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

REQNUMBER: R-00137518

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.