Job Summary:
Parsons Corporation is seeking a talented Scrum Master / Release Train Engineer to join their team. In this role, you will lead cross-functional teams through Agile, Scrum, and/or Kanban practices, contributing to a mission-critical program that supports national security. Your responsibilities will include facilitating team progress, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring effective agile practices are followed.
Responsibilities:
• Orchestrate the team’s progress toward development, test, and demonstration goals in collaboration with the Lead Systems Engineer and the Technical Director
• Continuously challenge the old ways of working to improve team performance and innovation in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, velocity and other metrics
• Help plan and maintain progress on the goals of the current Program Increment (PI)
• Drive and facilitate a culture of continuous improvement through activities such as team retrospectives and lessons learned, to include the definition, tracking, and reporting of appropriate metrics
• Establish ad facilitate the agile cadence and supporting ceremonies such as Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning/Review, Sprint Planning/Review, Retrospectives, etc.
• Ensure the definition of done, testing requirements, documentation requirements, and other team/ART level working agreements are being followed
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution within the team/ART to quickly identify and remove roadblocks and improve team performance and value delivery
• Support the development and maintenance of the product backlog, work estimation, release planning, etc.
• Confident self-starter with ability to prioritize progress, manage conflict, drive agile process adoption, and achieve consensus on a cross-functional team with varying agile experience and potentially competing priorities
• Promote and support Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), DevSecOps, and automation best practices within the Agile delivery lifecycle
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field; additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• 8 years’ experience or equivalent in the use of Agile methodologies including three plus years as Scrum Master, Kanban lead, or Software Product Owner
• Proven success leading Agile teams to agile maturity and improved customer outcomes
• Experience leading change and continuous improvement, working with a cross functional team by applying lean agile values, practices, and principles
• Expert knowledge of product ownership, DevOps, Test Automation practices etc.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to organize data and create metrics/reports/dashboards
• Active TS security clearance with SCI eligibility, may require a polygraph
Preferred:
• Certified Scrum Master (CSP) or Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer
• Experience using Agile lifecycle management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Rally, or Azure DevOps
• Basic understanding of offensive and defensive cyber tactics
• Basic understanding of cloud computing principles and practices
Company:
Parsons is an engineering, construction, technical and management services firm for national security and global infrastructure markets. Founded in 1944, the company is headquartered in Pasadena, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.