Job Description
Scrum Master I
Location -Onsite Hybrid role Lincoln Massachusetts
About Wingbrace
Wingbrace () is a mission driven, customer-focused Service-Disabled Veteran Owned non-traditional small business. We push the boundaries of engineering disciplines and emerging technologies to pioneer transformative data, systems modeling, and decision-intelligence platforms critical to national defense programs. We code, we architect, we engineer, and we have fun – whether simulating in a synthetic battlespace; pioneering in our AFFINITY Labs™ environment; or claiming first place at the annual hot-wings competition. Join us at Wingbrace and lean into the future.
About You
- You want to make tomorrow better than today.
- You have a passion for discovery and detail.
- You help ensure project success and client satisfaction.
- You enjoy collaborative teams, partnering with team members and clients.
- You like to work alongside, and learn from, lean and agile leaders.
- You are a creative problem solver who is comfortable with uncertainty.
- You’re a curious and keen learner who thrives on enhancing your (and our) practices and knowledge.
As a Scrum Master I at Wingbrace, you will be: Are you interested in joining a vibrant and growing technical delivery organization? Wingbrace is looking for a client-facing, Scrum Master (SM) for its Decision Intelligence team.
The mission of the Scrum Master is to facilitate and ensure effective execution of client priorities while fostering an environment of continuous improvement, transparency, and accountability. The Scrum Master supports the Product Owner with Kanban or Sprint preparation, removes impediments, facilitates communication and collaboration, supports the team in achieving its goals, gathers metrics and provides reporting. Additionally, the SM will support the other Wingbrace Scrum Masters as well as cross-team dependency tracking.
The SM facilitates new employee onboarding, conducts daily standups, backlog grooming and client-facing reviews. The SM leads team-only retrospectives to discuss and capture what went well, what could be improved, and identify actionable improvements/experiments to run in future sprints.
Key Responsibilities and Skills:
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Facilitating Agile Practices: Implementing and promoting Scrum practices within the team, ensuring adherence to Agile principles.
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Coaching and Mentoring: Providing guidance and support to development teams and stakeholders to improve their Agile skills and processes.
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Removing Impediments: Identifying and resolving obstacles that hinder the team's progress, ensuring smooth workflow.
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Collaboration and Communication: Facilitating communication between the team, stakeholders, and other departments, fostering a collaborative environment.
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Continuous Improvement: Identifying opportunities for improvement within the team's processes and working towards continuous development.
Must Haves: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in project management or related fields
- Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
- 3-years’ relevant work experience or equivalent
- An ability to be onsite with the client 75-100%
- Proficient at Microsoft Office 365 tools (PPTX, DOCX, EXCLX)
Nice-to-Haves: - Scrum plus at least one other Agile framework experience (e.g., Kanban) with a team of 3-5 team members
- Distributed team experience
- Simultaneous team experience (e.g., SM for more than one team at a time)
- AzureDevOps, Planner or Jira task management experience
- Data analyst, Software Development or Technical PM skills
- Aerospace and Defense background
- Agile Certification
- Agile scaling experience across multiple teams
- Coaching or Mentoring experience
Salary The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity.
Benefits We believe customer experience starts with employee experience, so we take care of our employees. We offer competitive pay and benefits, invest in employee growth, and offer a culture you can’t find anywhere else.
- Flexible schedule
- Premium Insurance: We cover up to 80% of the employee premium and combined dependent premium on our base health plan, depending on pay band. We also cover 80% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision as well as employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage.
- Retirement: 401k match at 4% gross pay.
- Paid time off (PTO): vacation, sick leave, Federal holidays, and floating Holidays.
- Education & Training: We invest our team’s growth offering training opportunities that work for you, such as in-house, online, mentoring, conferences and classroom training.
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All of Wingbrace’s work in this area is with Federal Government customers that require our employees involved with their projects be U.S. citizens. As such, this role requires U.S. citizenship. If hired, you would also be required to go through a background investigation.
Wingbrace is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider you for this role regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We value each individual and empower our people to fearlessly drive lasting change.
If you need assistance email us at info@wingbrace.com
Job Tags
Holiday work, Full time, Work experience placement, Flexible hours,