Scrum Master

Genesis Consulting has an immediate opportunity for an experienced, forward thinking Scrum Master with a passion for growth and business transformation for a public sector client in Washington, DC. Join our team and work on challenging, complex solutions that are driving innovation and technology advancement in the local community. Work with teams that are rapidly delivering value to their customers leveraging concepts of Lean, Agile, Kanban and SAFe. Our clients are some of the world's leading companies and the candidate will be a part of challenging projects to build and support technical solutions for their needs.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The SAFe Scrum Master will assist in providing services to a team that is part of a large program to deliver financial business process solutions/support in SAP Public Sector Finance and Federal Financials.

• Coach teams on Agile values and principles

• Drive teams to improve continuously

• Foster teams collective responsibility and accountability

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies (e.g. Retrospective, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Planning, Refining) and ensure full team engagement.

• Anticipate and address teams potential or existing impediments

• Manage interdependencies between Agile teams

• Work with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning and to keep the work backlog healthy and ready for execution

• Shield teams from external interference to achieve teams optimal functionality and productivity

• In Agile at scale environments, participate and represent the teams in Program Increment Planning meetings and other equivalent ceremonies

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications/Experience:

• General SAFe Agile implementation experience;

• User Story formatting, prioritization and estimation

• Agile team-level metrics

• Work experience with Scrum

• Experience with Agile work management (AWM) tools including set-up, planning and reporting

• Familiarity with SAFe Agile

• Ability to deliver working products and is responsible for ensuring teams understand and operate in accordance to Agile values and principles.

• Preferred: Ability to help the teams do this in the Fin business process/SAP technology space

• Preferred: General knowledge/background of Financial business process in SAP (any version)

• 3+ years of experience SAP Public Sector- Preferred

• 1+ years of experience Scrum Master- Required

Minimum Education:

• High School Diploma/GED- Required

• Bachelor's Degree- Preferred

Required Certifications:

• *Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance or equivalent Certification- Required

• *SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)- Required

• SAFe Certifications- Strongly Preferred

• SAP Certifications- Strongly Preferred

• *Must have either SSM or CSM certification. SSM preferred over CSM.

Other:

• Must be US Citizen

• Must have Active DoD Public Trust clearance or Ability to Obtain it

• Willingness to be on-site daily (post-COVID)