Rolling Meadows, IL30+ days ago
Responsibilities Include: • Facilitates daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospectives, and improves Agile practices within the development lifecycle • Oversees a tailored Agile framework to ensure operational excellence in product deliveries while staying within the confines of EVM budget and schedule constraints • Provides guidance and helps educate the team in Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile framework (SAFe), ensuring that the custom Agile process is being followed • Helps remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement • Work with customers and stakeholders to refine and prioritize the backlogs • Provide "product line" perspective to teams • Manage risks, dependencies, and feature commitments for all thread teams • Schedule meetings to kickoff and review features for capability definition and verification signoff activities • Collaborating with stakeholders to define the work so that the team can review, commit, and execute within a defined period • Ensure that the team understand the intent and requirements of feature and user story definitions, and that the team is aligned on all acceptance criteria. Principal Scrum Master: • Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline or Project Management, and 8 years of industry related experience, OR a Masters with 6 years of industry related experience, OR PhD and 4 years of industry related experience OR in lieu of a degree, an additional 4 years of experience is required • Thorough knowledge of Agile principles, practices and methods, particularly Scrum • Experienced Scrum Master (proof of experience needed) - Running Scrums, using Jira • Working knowledge of software engineering principles and processes • Ability to obtain and maintain a minimum of a Secret Clearance with additional customer specified clearance prior to start.