Principal Scrum Master Job at Cognosante, LLC
Security Clearance required:
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Cognosante is on a mission to transform our country’s healthcare and national security systems. With our health and security-focused solutions, we help public sector organizations achieve the important task of providing the best possible public services to American Citizens. From Enterprise IT, Data Science, and Security Services, to full-scale Consumer Engagement and Interoperability solutions, we are moving government services forward with transformation and innovation. Learn how we are making a difference in people’s lives today!
Job Description
Cognosante is looking for an experienced SCRUM Masters to define, mature, build, and continue improve our approach to Agile development. We’re looking for an outstanding Scrum Master who knows how to work with teams of product managers and highly skilled engineers in a fast pace Agile environment.
Who Are You?
You are passionate about Agile, communication, and human dynamics, and have an insatiable appetite for helping people excel. You are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve the status quo, able to maintain a broad perspective while paying attention to details, and take great pride in your work. A self-starter, you are not afraid to raise issues and drive change to remove impediments from your team and improve the greater organization.
The Role
You will be the team lead for the development of product backlog, prioritization and for all sprint planning and reviews. You will assist with team and program coordination and communicating with upper management. You have a proven track record as a Scrum Master and can demonstrate initiative and determination in assuring the team has a robust well managed Scrum process. You will be part of a team dedicated to change Healthcare IT.
Key responsibilities
- Lead all Scrum related ceremonies, including: daily standup, grooming sessions, sprint retrospectives, and sprint planning ceremonies.
- Coach and develop Scrum Masters
- Coaching teams on the basics of SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban (as needed) in simple terms
- Provide leadership in identifying iterative process improvements and methods to streamline adoption of the methodology
- Assist in maintaining Product Backlog to include new or revised requirements and backlog items, prioritization, and reporting
- Support Deliverables to include Release Burn Down Charts, Sprint Burn Down Charts, and sprint summations for the customer and the team
- Support solicitation of input and feedback from stakeholders and users after each Sprint
- Take initiative and act as a leader to foster collaboration and communication between team members on technical issues, on process improvements, and in addressing and escalating project risks and issues.
Must Have Qualifications:
- Must be a US Citizen or a Green Card holder that has not left the US within 5 years is required to meet the Secruity Clearance of this position.
- Must have BOTH Active (unexpired) Scrum Master Certifications: Certified Scrum Master (CSM - good for 2 years) and SAFe Scrum Master certification (good for 12 months)5+ years of hands-on experience as a Scrum Master. Candidates will be required to submit current certifications prior to interviewing.
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience in development and coaching of Scrum Masters
- Highly self-motivated with a passion for leading Scrum teams to continual improvement
- Strong conflict resolution, time management, and analytical skills
- Demonstrates a professional, positive, and personable demeanor
- Demonstrated experience in iterative methodologies (Agile/Scrum/SAFe)- leading Scrum meetings, Sprints, Product Backlogs, Burn Down Charts, and/or Develop User Stories
- Strong technical writing and presentation skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Very strong facilitation, planning and organizational skills
Candidates not meeting the minium requirements will not be considered for this role.
Preferred Qualifications
- In-depth understanding of the software development life cycle for implementing enterprise level systems
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environments
- Understanding of the role of software development tools and processes such as version control, defect and issue trackers, build processes, team collaboration tools
- Experience working with dispersed teams, and using online communication tools such as Microsoft Teams
- Experience working with many development teams (varied personalities and communication styles)
- Experience managing deployment processes
Cognosante will not provide sponsorship for employment-based immigration benefits for this position.
Like many other growing companies, Cognosante has been targeted by scammers attempting to make fraudulent job offers to potential candidates. Communication from Cognosante recruiting will only be sent with an official corporate domain email (e.g., @cognosante.com or @accurate.com) and not a commercial domain e-mail (e.g., @gmail.com or @yahoo.com). We will never request payment from you, nor will we send payment to you, prior to your start date. If you have been asked to send or receive any payment, or if you have any doubt about whether you have been contacted by a Cognosante employee, please contact us at
jobs@cognosante.com
. Thank you.
Cognosante is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.
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