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Scrum Master

Type: Full-time
Category: Scrum Master
Location: Reston, VA
Clearance: TS/SCI with Poly

Description

We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to join our team delivering state-of-the-art, multi-cloud, multi-region services to a government agency.  Qualified candidates will typically be at the cross section of where curiosity and creativity meet to answer the government’s cloud security needs of the future.   

Members of our solutions teams require little guidance, but love to learn, collaborate, and problem solve. This position requires the subject matter expertise and passion for leading the building of secure cloud solutions, and a strong desire to solve our customers’ unique technical and data challenges.    

Primary Responsibilities:  

  • Running daily standups, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives 
  • Maintaining a strong awareness of technical trends in information technology 
  • Developing and maintain a strong awareness of on-going IT projects, and business unit requirements 
  • Applying the project management model (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) selected for a given development effort
  • Providing analysis, design, development, deployment, and lifecycle support for innovative hardware systems and applications
  • Developing end-to-end cost analysis for projects
  • Ensuring systems being developed comply with the enterprise technical architecture
  • Helping project and program teams prepare for CIO Project Management Program control gates
  • Keeping senior management apprised of project or program status 

Basic Qualifications: 

  • Clearance: TOP SECRET WITH POLYGRAPH  
  • 11+ years’ relevant experience and a high school degree or 8+ years and a BS degree   
  • Extensive experience with Agile techniques and practices
  • Experience leading an Agile Scrum team 
  • Excellent skills using Jira
  • Experience using Confluence
  • Strong leadership and organizational skills
  • Strong quantitative skills 
  • Excellent verbal and written skills 

Preferred Qualifications:  

  • Experience supporting the Intelligence Community (IC)  

Clearance: TOP SECRET WITH POLYGRAPH  

Location: Reston, Virginia  

Physical Requirements  

  • Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer  
  • Must be able to lift 10-15 pounds at times  

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Working at NT Concepts means that you are part of an innovative, agile company dedicated to solving the most critical challenges in National Security. We're expert leaders and problem solvers who roll up our sleeves to get the job done. We're passionate, curious, and committed to doing important work. At the same time, we're life-long learners, avid mentors, and we like to have fun.

We're looking for the best and the brightest to join us in supporting the mission of National Security. If meaningful work, initiative, creativity, and continuous self-improvement are important to your career, join our growing talent network and discover What's Next for you.

NT Concepts is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions. Contact us if you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process. All resumes are held in confidence. NT Concepts participates in E-Verify.