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Job type full-time
Full job description
Softrams is one of the fastest growing digital services firm in the washington metropolitan regions crafting human centered, empowering digital services with focus on hx, ai, cloud, devops and cyber securityOffices in leesburg va, baltimore md and plano tx and teams across usa1Recognized as one of the top workplaces in technology (2021) 2Inc 5000, fastest growing companies in america (2nd year in a row) 3Washington business journal top 75 fastest growing companies in greater washington area 42020 nxt up - top federal emerging technology and consulting firms 52020 inaugural dc metro’s most successful companies 62020 washington technology fast 50 7Nvtc tech 100 (2019, 2020) key responsibilities: agile ceremony facilitation –
Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, refinement, sprint review, retrospectives, and other related team and intra-team meetings
Participate in sprint demonstrations and scrum of scrums
Maintain and generate information dashboards for the team(s)
Collect and share metrics with the team, suggest new metrics, and drive improvement using metrics
Planning –
Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the team
Ensuring that the technical team has a clear understanding of definition of done
Drive stories to ready state in preparation for the next quarter and upcoming sprint
Prepare for sprint planning with the product owner and the team
Work with the team and product owner to maintain a healthy backlog and plan upcoming releases and assist with drafting acceptance criteria
Team support –
Foster team collaboration and communication
Encourage team to be proactive during all phases of the sprint cycle
Work with the team to adapt to changes that yield better results
Encourage an experimental and fail-fast mindset
Remove impediments to the team’s ability to perform by working closely with the team and stakeholders, including product owners, management, other teams, and the support organization
Works with team to create and update team working agreement, the definition of ready, and definition of done
Communicate the status of progress and impediments to internal and external stakeholders
Facilitate cross-team coordination, tracking and following up with external dependencies
Act as a buffer between external distractions and the team helping the team to keep focus
Protect the team and minimize disruptions
Coordinate with the configuration management analyst on environment setups & maintenance, code deployments, and production releases
Builds high-performing teams by helping the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for growthBuild trust among team members.
Encourages brain-storming and creative thinkingEncourages the team to be confident and courageous, thinking outside the box
Capture agile metrics as required for cmmi monitoring
Advice and guidance –
Coaches the team on agile principles with a goal of continuous improvement
Able to observe team dynamics, recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team member`s contributions, and coach them to improve
Create a fun sharing and learning environment, experimenting with various ideas to improve delivery including pair-programming and cross-functional training
Promote teamwork to achieve sprint goals
Lead the teams towards agile maturity
Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment, across diverse systems and groups
Requirements:
Bs degree and 2+ years of prior relevant experience
Experience applying scrum and growing teams as a fulltime scrum master for 2+ years
Experience-affecting change in organizations working towards agile adoption
Certified scrum master (csm) or similar agile project management certification
Experience using agile project management tools, preferably jira and confluence
Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
Manages time extremely well, can quickly sense when an issue needs to be discussed or triaged
Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion is critical
Preferred:
Technology experience software development
Experience working in with multi-disciplinary development teams
Relevant understanding of cmmi level 3 concepts
Safe experience and certification is a plus
Experience as a scrum master at an organization that is committed to using agile as a core methodology to deliver business value
Experience in any part of the software development lifecycle is a plus - as the developer, tester, analyst, product manager, project/program manager, etc.
Experience with applying test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the teams
The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.
Public trust clearance this role requires the hired candidate to go through public clearanceA minimum of 3 years of stay in the u.sWithin the last 5 years is a must to be eligible to qualify for public trust clearance sponsorship.
Benefits
Health, dental, vision and std, ltd, life insurance & voluntary life insurance.
Retirement 401(k) plan with employer matchingImmediate vesting.
Vacation & sick leaves
Discretionary bonus
Work location softrams is a 100% remote at the moment and we expect our employees to be onsite 2-3 times a week post-covidMust be able to work on-site in woodlawn, md when onsite work resumes.
About softrams softrams is a maryland & virginia-based small business information technology, consulting, and solutions provider specializing in emerging technologies for ux/ui, mobile apps, devops, big data analytics, data science, and cyber securityWe offer innovative technology implementations and build customer-centric services that are simple, intuitive, scalable, efficient and most importantly usable.
Softrams is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employerAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, nation origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran statusAs a hubzone certified business, we strongly encourage candidates who reside in a hubzone area to apply.
