Senior Specialist Business Analyst (Scrum Master) 1

Job Title :

Senior Specialist Business Analyst (Scrum Master)

Job Number: 15157

Job Location: Nashville, TN

Schedule: 9/80 Reg

Clearance: Ability to Obtain a United States Security Clearance

Job Summary:

The role of Scrum Master is a Servant Leader at L3 Harris. The Servant Leader is focused on team functionality. The Scrum Master is responsible for monitoring the Scrum/Agile processes to increase team efficiency by motivating and facilitating the scrum team to self-organization, higher quality, team ownership and driving the team to meet their deliverables. The role of Senior Scrum Master is a professional and subject matter expert with comprehensive job area knowledge and in-depth knowledge of project management, managing large and complex projects and processes with minimal direction or oversight to achieve operational targets and goals with significant improvements on business or functional results.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:Strong understanding of agile values and principles and can guide and coach teams, and the organization.Guiding and coaching delivery teams to self-organize and achieve objectives, without assigning or dictating the workMobilizing new teams to agile practices and valuesFacilitating all agile ceremonies efficiently to help team realize the value of the meetings to performance outcomesFacilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolutionBuilding a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolvedWorking effectively with management and team members to clarify needs and plan delivery of major product changes, future versions and new productsWorking to proactively manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, ensuring that they are identified, coordinated, mitigated or escalated as necessaryWorking with Product Owner and Development Team to facilitate effective sprints by removing impediments and ensuring that stories are 'sprint ready'Demonstrating servant-leadership while guiding the team to improve their processes all while challenging them to innovate and experimentHelping foster an environment that empowers and energizes team members, with a focus on accountability, adaptability, and collaborationFacilitate Agile Scrum stand-up meetings, retrospectives, sprints, release planning and delivery of artifacts for the Scrum process for multiple teamsDevelop and report process metrics for real-time or historical presentationAdminister and maintain systems used for Project Lifecycle ManagementMaintain current knowledge and keep updated on new relevant technologyProvide support and lead special projects as neededEvaluating a team's agile maturity using tools provided and successfully implementing action plans for improving agile maturityRequired Skills, Experience and Education:

Ability to obtain a US security clearance requiredBachelor's degree and 5 years minimum prior related experience as a practicing Scrum Master in a technology and/or software development environment, or equivalent of education and related experienceStrong knowledge of agile methodologies, values, and proceduresProven leadership skills that motivate scrum teams to perform at their bestProven success in baselining programs to match changes in scopeStrong knowledge and proven experience with facilitation techniques, servant leadership, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparencyExperience with agile PLM tools like JIRA, Rally, VersionOne (or other)Strong understanding of backlog tracking, Scrum and Kanban based metrics, task definition, and story splittingExcellent communication and mentoring skillsExperience in sprint & release planning, running demos and retrospectives.Demonstrate sound judgment and strong reasoning skills as well as good analytical and problem-solving abilitiesAbility to travel up to 20%Preferred Skills, Experience and Education:

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Business Administration, Computer Science, Education, or Graduate Degree with minimum of 6 years of prior related experience, 5 years as a practicing Scrum MasterGraduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent certificationsJob Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Ability to utilize multiple desktop publishing and still-image editing programsHighly proficient written/verbal communication and presentation skillsHighly proficient grammatical skillsAbility to prioritize and organize tasks and assignmentsWork Environment and Physical Demands :

Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside of normal working hours (evenings, weekends, and holidays)Work performed in an office environment