Scrum Master

The Opportunity:

As a Scrum Master, you’re passionate about outcomes and supporting a development team that’s modernizing critical projects. You know the importance of Agile best practices and how to combat challenges early to get work done.

On our team, you’ll coach a development team to achieve its highest performance level while ensuring the team is meeting their PI and sprint goals. You will work on unusually complex problems, introduce leading-edge concepts, and provide highly innovative solutions to your team and key stakeholders.

Using tools like Jira and Confluence, you’ll strengthen sustainable process improvements to help your team accomplish sprint planning and reviews.

Work with us as we shape systems for the better.

What You’ll Work On:

• Collaborate with Product Owner, Engineering Lead, and Chief Architect to ensure backlog quality, clarity, and prioritization.
• Facilitate sprint ceremonies that produce consistent outcomes.
• Promote and measure Agile metrics.
• Collaborate closely with other scrum teams to align priorities, manage shared resources, and ensure consistent sequencing of work.
• Gather and document technical and business requirements.
• Ensure scrum principles and approaches are understood correctly by the development team and stakeholders and maximize the performance of the team.
• Coach the scrum team to apply appropriate processes to create successful products.
• Foster self-organization and collaborative scrum team and shelter the team from outside distractions to keep focus mainly on the agreed sprint goals.
• Monitor and improve the scrum process and project progress and help solve impediments in the development process.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience managing teams to meet stakeholder objectives such as in a Scrum Master role
• Experience with JIRA
• Experience leading client delivery engagements and working with senior-level client management
• Experience teaching technical teams comprised of junior and senior team members basic Agile framework concepts
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience gathering and documenting technical and business requirements, or 9+ years of experience gathering and documenting technical and business requirements in lieu of a degree
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification

Nice If You Have:

• Knowledge of the project management framework
• Knowledge of agency or intelligence community and IT infrastructures
• Possession of excellent interpersonal skills to successfully interact with clients, engineers, and managers
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field
• Agile or PMI Certifications

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Identity Statement

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 interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.