Job Description
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GovCIO is currently hiring for an Agile Scrum Master/Business Analyst to support the Readiness and Employment System (RES) contract within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This role involves acting as a servant-leader for an Agile team, facilitating Scrum practices, and conducting process analysis to optimize business workflows. Responsibilities β’ Acts as a servant-leader for an Agile team, ensuring they follow Scrum practices while also helping them overcome obstacles and improve continuously β’ Facilitates team meetings, removes impediments to progress, coaches the team on Agile principles, and helps the product owner find techniques for effective product backlog management in Atlassian Jira β’ Facilitates and guides the team in adopting and implementing the Scrum framework β which includes organizing and leading Scrum ceremonies, participation in Program Increment Planning, promoting collaboration and ensuring adherence to Scrum principles and values β’ Works closely with the product owner and development team to plan and execute sprints, daily stand-ups and sprint reviews β’ Creates and maintains project timelines β’ Identifies and manages risks and monitors progress against project goals β’ Facilitates Scrum events: Guides daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and other meetings to ensure they are productive and achieve their objectives β’ Acts as a liaison to improve communication between the development team and those outside the team, fostering mutual trust and respect β’ Conducts process analysis and optimization to map, document, and analyze βas isβ data collection, business processes, and dissemination workflows to βto beβ processes β’ Manages requirements gathering to elicit and document detailed business requirements from stakeholders and acts as a liaison between operational users and technical teams, translating functional needs into technical specifications β’ Performs requirements analysis to determine feasibility and to decompose requirements to concise and testable user stories β’ Creates detailed user stories, including acceptance criteria, and any additional information to assist development β’ Uses Atlassian Confluence and Jira for epics, stories, tasks, backlog management, sprint planning and Kanban management Skills β’ Bachelor's Degree with 8+ yrs experience (or commensurate experience) β’ Must have experience working in Agile environment β’ Must possess leadership skills and experience β’ Must possess excellent interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written β’ Must possess the ability to explain intricate and complicated concepts and ideas β’ Experience with Atlassian Confluence and Jira strongly preferred β’ Certified Scrum Master β’ SAFe certified Company Overview β’ GovCIO is a business consulting firm that focuses on cyber security, digital, data, management and mission services, and IT services. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is Apply tot his job