GDI Scrum Master

Leidos; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an experienced Agile Scrum Master to support the Real-Time Network Visibility (RTNV) Capability portfolio on the Global Management System (GMS) for the GSM-O II contract at DISA. The role requires on-site work at Scott AFB and a Secret clearance to start.

You will facilitate SAFe ceremonies, refine backlogs with Product Owners, mentor teams, remove impediments, and ensure delivery of PI commitments across multiple agile teams in a large-scale program.

Qualifications

• Experience as an Agile Scrum Master in large-scale software/hardware integration programs.
• Familiar with SAFe ceremonies and backlog management.
• Strong communication and stakeholder alignment skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates team progress against Program Increment commitments.
• Protects the team from scope creep during PI execution.
• Removes impediments and coordinates with Release Train Engineer or Project Manager.
• Supports Scrum process and ensures clear Definition of Done.
• Coordinates with other teams on the ART and communicates status to management.
• Works with Product Owners to review and prioritize features.
• Leads SAFe events: backlog grooming, sprint planning, reviews, demos, retrospectives, PI planning.
• Develops User Stories to meet feature acceptance criteria.
• Elicits and documents business and system requirements into epics, features, stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Supports backlog refinement ensuring requirements are complete, testable, and traceable.
• Maintains process artifacts and documentation as needed.
• Acts as liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders.

Job description

The Leidos Digita; Sector has a career opportunity for a Scrum Master, supporting the Real-Time Network Visibility (RTNV) Capability portfolio on the Global Management System (GMS) for the Global Solutions Management - Operations II (GSM-O II) contract at DISA. This contract includes the Operations, Sustainment, Maintenance, Repair, and Defense of the Defense Information System Network (DISN) within the DOD Information Network (DODIN) in support of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). It also includes support to other key tasks for DISA, including the transformation of DISA's operational mission through innovation, and support to DISA's mission partners.

Candidate must be willing and able to be on site at Scott AFB daily, and at a minimum, a Secret clearance is required upon the start of employment.

This GMS role requires an experienced Agile Scrum Master to work on a large-scale software and hardware integration effort. In addition to facilitating agile teams, the selected candidate will help elicit, analyze, document, and refine business and system requirements, translating stakeholder needs into well-formed epics, features, and user stories that drive value to the customer.

The selected candidate will be responsible for facilitating either one large, complex agile team, or several small agile teams as part of a larger Agile Release Train (ART) delivering value to the customer using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as the agile framework. She/he will help educate the teams in Scrum or Kanban to ensure that the agile processes are being followed. She/he will help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.

The selected candidate will work with team members, with other Agile Scrum Masters, and with support personnel to ensure that the team's commitments at the Program Increment (PI) Planning are met. She/he will facilitate horizontal communication across team members to identify any impediments that may prevent team progress while working mitigation plans.

The selected candidate will be responsible for sensing, determining, and leading discussions when issues need to be analyzed or triaged, and for making improvements in determining and implementing improvements to processes. The candidate will also partner closely with Product Owners and stakeholders to analyze business processes, gather and clarify requirements, and ensure alignment between customer needs and delivered capabilities. Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion is critical.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for facilitating team 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 or Project Manager 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 backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, demos, sprint retrospectives, and PI planning.
• Works with Product Owner(s) to develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria.
• Elicits, analyzes, and documents business and system requirements from stakeholders and translates them into clear epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Supports the Product Owner(s) in backlog refinement by ensuring requirements are complete, testable, and traceable to customer needs.
• Develops and maintains supporting artifacts such as process flows, use cases, data flow diagrams, requirements traceability matrices, and other documentation as needed.
• Serves as a liaison between technical teams and business/customer stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of requirements