Systems Engineer/Scrum Master - TS/SCI with Polygraph

Clearance Level
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
Category
IT Infrastructure and Operations
Location
Chantilly, Virginia
(Onsite Workplace)
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Key Skills For Success

Agile Project Management

Deliverables Management

Scrum

REQ#: RQ228593
Public Trust: None
Requisition Type: Regular
Your Impact

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.

Job Description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Systems Engineer/Scrum Master supporting an information technology enterprise. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Systems Engineer/Scrum Master, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

We are seeking an experienced Systems Engineer/Scrum Master to join a dynamic development team. The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing Agile best practices, making progress towards security accreditation, developing the project roadmap, and removing roadblocks to enable team success.

      WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

      • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
      • Experience: 10+ years
      • Required skills:
      • Manages and is responsible for the successful completion of all tasks in assigned program area.
      • Develops, reviews, and approves plans, schedules, and provides various reports and technical reviews to senior management as requested.
      • Ability to understand the business goals that you are supporting and translate into technical work
      • Responsible for stakeholder engagement and derivation of requirements
      • Responsible for translating requirements into user stories with testable acceptance criteria
      • Able to provide clear communication of the vision, goals and product backlog items to development team
      • Experienced Scrum master with documented ability assisting the product owner to understand and manage the backlog and sprint planning.
      • Documented experience with producing content using Agile project management tools (Jira, Confluence)
      • Demonstrated effective leadership and strategic thinking
      • Strong written and oral communication skills
      • Proactively and regularly make recommendations for system improvements
      • Security clearance level: TS/SCI with Polygraph
      • Desired skills:
      • Willingness to learn Scrum Master responsibilities
      • Experience managing a disparately located team
      • Active or open to obtaining Scrum Master Certification or equivalent agile certification.
      • Amazon Web Services (S3, RDS, EC2, ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation, etc.)
      • Excellent knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle), SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
      • Oracle administration
      • Location: Chantilly, VA (On Customer Site)
      • US Citizenship Required


      GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

      • 401K with company match
      • Comprehensive health and wellness packages
      • Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
      • Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
      • Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
      • Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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      Work Requirements

      Years of Experience

      10 + years of related experience

      * may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

      Certification

      Travel Required

      Less than 10%

      Citizenship

      U.S. Citizenship Required

      Salary and Benefit Information

      The likely salary range for this position is $162,037 - $219,227. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
      View information about benefits and our total rewards program.

      Our Identity Verification Process

      As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

      About Our Work

      We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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