Client: Zolon Tech Supporting DHS/ICE

Title: Scrum Master

Duration: Direct hire

Location: Washington, DC

Certification: Certified Scrum Master certification

Job

• The Scrum Master Lead will have overall responsibility of facilitating and guiding cross functional teams in executing projects using the principles of Agile development.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree with eight (8) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment
• Experience with requirements tools and tracking (e.g. JIRA)
• Experience conducting daily scrum stand-up meetings, facilitating Sprint planning meetings and coordinating Sprint reviews, retrospectives, and burn-down charts.
• Experience identifying and removing impediments from sprints and projects to ensure on time completion.
• Experience developing user stories, including facilitation, prioritization, and negotiation with business sponsors, stakeholders, project sponsors, product owners, and development teams.
• Experience developing metrics and reports for tracking sprint, project, and overall program execution.
• Experience creating and maintaining requirements documentation, including business process flows, functional specifications, use cases, test plans, and supplementary
  specifications.
• Experience with all aspects of configuration management planning including configuration identification, change control, configuration status accounting, configuration audits, configuration documentation.

Critical Soft Skills:

• Excellent active listening and verbal communication skills
• Strong business writing ability
• Flexible and adaptable attitude
• Ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Leading and mentoring teams