Systems Engineer/Scrum Master - TS/SCI with Polygraph

General Dynamics Information Technology

Chantilly (VA)

On-site

USD 100,000 - 130,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Comprehensive health packages

Professional growth opportunities

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology is looking for a Systems Engineer/Scrum Master in Chantilly, VA. This role focuses on implementing Agile best practices and leading a dynamic development team towards achieving security accreditation.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience and will be responsible for stakeholder engagement and translating requirements into actionable user stories. Benefits include 401K, health packages, and professional growth opportunities.

Qualifications

10+ years of experience in systems engineering or related field.
Ability to translate business goals into technical work.
Documented experience as a Scrum master.

Responsibilities

Implement Agile best practices for development teams.
Develop project roadmap and remove roadblocks.
Serve as a liaison between stakeholders and technical teams.

Skills

Agile best practices

Stakeholder engagement

Scrum master

Jira

Confluence

AWS

Relational databases

SQL

Leadership

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Agile project management tools

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Job description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Systems Engineer/Scrum Master supporting an information technology enterprise. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Systems Engineer/Scrum Master, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

We are seeking an experienced Systems Engineer/Scrum Master to join a dynamic development team. The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing Agile best practices, making progress towards security accreditation, developing the project roadmap, and removing roadblocks to enable team success.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
Experience: 10+ years
Required skills:
Manages and is responsible for the successful completion of all tasks in assigned program area.
Develops, reviews, and approves plans, schedules, and provides various reports and technical reviews to senior management as requested.
Ability to understand the business goals that you are supporting and translate into technical work
Responsible for stakeholder engagement and derivation of requirements
Responsible for translating requirements into user stories with testable acceptance criteria
Able to provide clear communication of the vision, goals and product backlog items to development team
Experienced Scrum master with documented ability assisting the product owner to understand and manage the backlog and sprint planning.
Documented experience with producing content using Agile project management tools (Jira, Confluence)
Demonstrated effective leadership and strategic thinking
Strong written and oral communication skills
Proactively and regularly make recommendations for system improvements
Security clearance level: TS/SCI with Polygraph
Desired skills:
Willingness to learn Scrum Master responsibilities
Experience managing a disparately located team
Active or open to obtaining Scrum Master Certification or equivalent agile certification.
Amazon Web Services (S3, RDS, EC2, ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation, etc.)
Excellent knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle), SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
Oracle administration
Location: Chantilly, VA (On Customer Site)
US Citizenship Required