CAREERS

Senior Scrum Master

In this position, you are a Senior SCRUM Master responsible for providing effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and coaching skills supporting the agile development process and delivery of our applications. The selected candidate will be responsible for enforcing the agile tenants as interpreted by our team, removing impediments, promoting empowerment and working with customers for various products and solutions. The selected candidate will be highly responsible and accountable and will challenge the teams and strive for improving best practices to produce consistently positive results and growth of the team. You will work in a customer-facing role in a dynamic team environment with multiple touchpoints interfacing with many stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Develop and manage realistic project plans. Provider oversight or manage the implementation processes by ensuring alignment to project scope, schedule resources and work within budget, track progress toward deadlines, monitor progress of sprints, track metrics and adjust as needed
Communicate well with the SCRUM team, remove impediments, lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team
Collaborate and hold team members accountable, set clear sprint performance standards, resolve sprint performance issues, work with product owners to manage backlogs/new requests, keep team engaged and on task.
Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls
Identify differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
Facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches
Lead a team to self-organization, monitor and improve team dynamics for maximum efficiency
Manage test related documentation on GitHub repository
Adhere to US Government policies and procedures related to application installation and/or integration testing and use
Mentor and guide how to use Agile Methodology and best practices

Qualifications

Education: Minimum of high school diploma but prefer Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar technical discipline. SCRUM related certification is a plus.
Experience: At least 5 years in the software development industry and 3+ years as a project manager applying Agile/SCRUM practices. Experience supporting Federal Government development projects is a plus.
Understand basic fundamentals of iterative application development
Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics
Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
Experienced in MS Azure and DevSecOps. Cloud certification is a plus.
.NET CORE experience

Benefits

Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
Life Insurance
Short, Long Term Disability Insurance
PTO & Federal Holidays Off
401(k) Plan
Access to state-of-the-art gymnasium (at TechTrend HQ)
About TechTrend
TechTrend, Inc. is a veteran-friendly small business providing expert solutions, products, and services to the federal government. Founded in 2003, we continue to evolve with capabilities in cybersecurity, devsecops, cloud managed services, cloud migration, and application development. We are a Microsoft Gold Partner and leading provider of Azure cloud services. TechTrend is recognized as a trusted partner delivering knowledge and guidance for our client’s most critical and complex support and service needs. As a liaison for positive organizational change, we form relationships and build bridges while ensuring quality across functions—gaining buy-in from both leaders and end-users and removing barriers to mission success. Our established processes ensure quality delivery of results by maximizing efficiency, productivity, and client satisfaction enterprise wide. TechTrend is a fast-growing company with a dynamic, inclusive corporate culture headquartered in a state-of-the-art facility near the well-known Fairfax Mosaic District.

Security Clearance Requirements

U.S. Citizenship
Secret Clearance is a MUST

Travel Requirements

Estimated at 15%

Work Location

1-2 days on site (Northern VA), 3-4 days remote.

About TechTrend

TechTrend, Inc. is a veteran-friendly small business providing expert solutions, products, and services to the federal government. Founded in 2003, we continue to evolve with capabilities in cybersecurity, devsecops, cloud managed services, cloud migration, and application development. We are a Microsoft Gold Partner and leading provider of Azure cloud services. TechTrend is recognized as a trusted partner delivering knowledge and guidance for our client’s most critical and complex support and service needs.

As a liaison for positive organizational change, we form relationships and build bridges while ensuring quality across functions—gaining buy-in from both leaders and end-users and removing barriers to mission success. Our established processes ensure quality delivery of results by maximizing efficiency, productivity, and client satisfaction enterprise wide. TechTrend is a fast-growing company with a dynamic, inclusive corporate culture headquartered in a state-of-the-art facility near the well-known Fairfax Mosaic District.