Scrum Master Advisor - FDA

General Dynamics Information Technology seeking a Scrum Master Advisor to support the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and their critical mission needs.

As a Scrum Master Advisor, you will be an integral part of a scaling agile delivery team focused on delivering new customer-facing web-based applications with an emphasis on providing high value features to our customers and internal teams.

**This role is hybrid requiring 3 days onsite at GDIT's Gaithersburg, MD office and Silver Spring, MD client location.

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate SCRUM ceremonies: daily standups, Sprint Planning/Grooming, Sprint Reviews/Demos, and Retrospectives
• Maintain JIRA and other information radiators for the teams
• Mentor and coach team members on core Agile values, principles, practices, and processes
• Effectively highlight and share the team’s successes through demos and reporting
• Enable team to become self-organizing and self-managing to achieve its goals
• Work with the functional team to develop release plans and ensure product backlogs are well-groomed, prioritized and visible to all stakeholders  
• Motivate teams to perform and ensure team members are collectively responsible for all aspects of the committed work (analysis, development, testing, documentation, etc.) 
• Identify, address, and communicate project risks, dependencies, and team impediments
• Ensure the team’s “definition of done” is well defined on the story, sprint, and release levels
• Facilitate productivity through discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Shield the team from external interferences
• Assist with internal and external communication, and improving transparency
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on problem solving
• Assess the Scrum maturity of the team and coach the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team
• Coach a continuous improvement mindset and recommend adjustments to established delivery practices
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum meetings to ensure cross-team collaboration and coordination of release plans and integration of testing activities
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with all stakeholders, including customers

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ of experience in Agile development environment (or Masters and 8+ years of experience).
• Experience with using and implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Experience with software development or working in software development organization.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Agile Certified Scrum Master (PMI-ACP).
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust with residency in the US 3 out of the last 5 years required.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• FDA experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and work rapidly in a high tempo environment that often requires multitasking.
• Ability to create, sustain, and enhance fostering of team dynamics and collaboration.
• Energetic, goal oriented, proactive, innovative, hardworking, and patient.

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