Agile Scrum Master - Ishpi Information Technologies, Inc

ISHPI is currently seeking outstanding candidates in support of the Navy Warfare Development Center to provide support for helpdesk, application, database web development and maintenance support. 

Responsibilities

Leads Agile Research and project management through the course of a project. Implements the application of Agile practices for a single team. Actions often include visualizing work, limiting work in progress, managing work flow, planning and guidance for daily standups, sprint planning, short, mid, and long range planning, backlog refinement, and retrospective meetings. Practices and encourage an agile mindset and behaviors; coach, inspire and mentor teams on Agile principles, values and practices while role modeling leadership behaviors. Facilitate all the communication and collaboration between leadership and team players to ensure successful outcomes. Provides summaries of team work at internal reviews and demos. Ensures progress toward objectives, KPIs and commitments; guide assigned Agile team to deliver the required product increments and outcomes. Partner with key stakeholders in backlog prioritization as well as tracking and reporting metrics, providing visibility to the team and stakeholders, ensuring a data-driven approach to decision-making. Identify opportunities to improve team-level agile performance; focus the team on customer value, quality and continuous improvement activities. Remove team-level impediments and resolve conflicts; anticipate challenges, identify risks, and recommend mitigations and solutions. Utilize learnings and best practices in furthering the effective use of agile practices. Facilitate open communication among team members and stakeholders; promote positive team dynamics to ensure members collaborate and work effectively.

Candidate required qualifications are a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Management, or other closely related scientific or technical discipline with five (5) years’ experience of which at least one (1) year must be specialized. Individuals with ten years of experience of which at least eight (8) years must be specialized, a degree is not required. MS degree preferred.

Required Technical Skills/Experience
Scrum Master/Agile Principles Level II: 5 years practical experience
Project Management Level II: 3 years practical experience
Development Experience Level I: 1 years practical experience
Organizational Communication Level I: 1 years practical experience
Azure DevOps Level I: 1 years practical experience

Certification Requirement: IAT Level II such as Comptia Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, CySA+ **, GICSP, GSEC, CND SSCP or above. 

Clearance Requirement: Selected candidate must a U.S. Citizen and have an active security clearance.

“Ishpi Information Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran.”

Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified, you may be contacted for this and future openings.

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