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Parsons Corporation Scrum Master in Centreville, Virginia
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When it comes to what you want in your career, if you can imagine it, you can do it at Parsons. Imagine a career working with intelligent, diverse people sharing a common quest. Imagine a workplace where you can be yourself. Where you can thrive. Where you can find your next, right now. We’ve got what you’re looking for.
Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Scrum Master to join our team!
What You'll Be Doing:
Lead Agile teams for the development effort by conveying the vision to an Agile or Scrum delivery team, outlining and prioritizing work based on business value and Government backlog priorities
Help grow a collaborative and continuously improving engineering culture; teach and serve as an example to the team of Scrum and agile values and principles; coach and give feedback to individuals (including senior leadership) and teams; facilitate Scrum Events as a Scrum Master
Deliver effective conflict resolution between individuals and teams
Serve as an expert in estimation and planning techniques; discuss and teach release planning in an empirical environment; and explain the differences between various Scrum Scaling frameworks and approaches
Work across all technical tasks to lead Agile teams and implement agile industry best practices
Establish necessary agile meetings such as sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, release planning, issue-tracking, and reporting to effectively meet Government-prioritized requirements
Collect and report on agile metrics to support productivity goals while utilizing available agile tools (ServiceNow, JIRA) to present project status information in a dynamic electronic format or other format approved by the customer
After each sprint, the Scrum Master will provide a sprint review presentation that includes a retrospective of metrics on prior sprint activities compared against prior sprints while using available Agile tools (e.g., ServiceNow, JIRA)
Ensure that release plans are up to date before beginning the next sprint while maintaining product backlog in electronic form using existing DevSecOps tools (GitLab, D12E)
Run Agile teams to facilitate a streamlined Tenant Onboarding Process, including tenant cloud architecture reviews evaluating other tenant artifacts such as cost estimates mitigating cost, schedule, and performance risks associated with tenant migration activities
Automate the flow of Project Status facilitating continuous & real-time transparency for effective communication, support, and decision making while helping individual teams clarify goals
Facilitate project development efforts within two-week sprints or mutually agreed upon lengths determined later by Government
Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field
12+ years years of related work experience
Experience advocating modern Agile software development practices such as XP, CI/CD, DVOS, and TDD
Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
Top Secret
This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.
Our Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our diverse, intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.
Salary Range:
$117,000.00 - $253,300.00
We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!
Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Diversity is ingrained in who we are, how we do business, and is one of our company’s core values. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for minority, female, disabled, protected veteran and LGBTQ+.
We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!About Us
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider focused on the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. With nearly 75 years of experience, Parsons is uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services to federal, regional, and local government agencies, as well as to private industrial customers worldwide.
Parsons is an equal opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran/LGBTQ+.
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