Scrum Master

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Scrum Master to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The ideal candidate will support Peraton’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program focused on delivering comprehensive Operations and Maintenance (O&M) support for a large-scale, complex biometric IT systems. This individual will be responsible for facilitating and ensuring process standardization of all Scrum events. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is committed to delivering exceptional results through effective leadership and collaboration. 

This is a 100% Remote role.

If you enjoy learning about new technologies and applying them to provide cutting-edge services to customers, Peraton is the place for you. With a strong focus on biometric security and the science of fingerprint, face, and iris recognition, we develop state-of-the-art technologies that preserve freedom and advance human discovery. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has placed us at the forefront of numerous technological advancements. We continue to innovate, with our employees not only being part of history but also actively making it.

Day to Day work Responsibilities:

• Facilitates and leads the Operations & Maintenance (O&M) effort by conveying the agile vision to a Kanban delivery team.
• Outlining and prioritizing work based on program initiatives and business value.
• Coordinate and monitor the Scrum process from initiation through delivery.
• Educate the team on best practices and tools.
• Serve as liaisons between the product owner, O&M team, cross functional teams, and management to ensure all targets and requirements are met.
• Ensure process standardization of all Scrum events to include but not limited to: Sprint Planning Meetings, Daily Stand-up Meetings, Reviews and Retrospectives.
• Maintain product backlog and facilitate productivity by removing impediments, resolving conflicts, and constantly seeking efficient and effective process improvement.
• Preserves flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes.
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters within the program to share knowledge and best practices.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• U.S. Citizenship required; Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DHS Entrance on Duty (EOD) clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years’ experience or HS diploma/equivalent and 9 years experience.
• Experienced Scrum Master with in-depth knowledge of delivering projects/tasks to the Customer. 
• Experience with DevOps and Agile methodologies.
• ServiceNow and/or JIRA Ticketing systems experience required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong Leadership and communication skills.
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• AWS certifications.
• Experience with creating dashboards and/or metrics with Jira/Confluence.
• AWS or AWS GovCloud & native AWS administrative tools …