Scrum Master, Mid at Booz Allen in Herndon, VA

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Scrum Master, Mid The Opportunity: Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to impact the National Security Space Sector? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer focused engineering solution. As a Scrum Master, we are looking for you to solve complex problems and shape national security space systems by leading agile systems engineering and integration efforts. Your customer will trust you to not only design and develop these systems, but also evolve them with advanced technology solutions. You will champion Agile principles across the program, facilitating Scrum events, coaching team members, and ensuring clarity in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and delivery activities. Working closely with Product Owners and technical leads, you will help translate mission needs into actionable user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs. You will identify impediments, remove blockers, and ensure alignment between development activities and stakeholder expectations. Grow your skills by merging systems engineering, software development, and agile adoption of cloud technologies to create a resilient ground system infrastructure for space domain awareness across national security space programs. Join our team and create the future of Intelligence Community space programs. Join us. The world can’t wait. You Have: Knowledge of Agile and Scrum principles Knowledge of scrum roles, events, artifacts, and empirical process control Knowledge of Agile tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, or VersionOne Knowledge of software development or systems engineering processes used on DoD or IC programs Ability to run standups, retrospectives, reviews, and remove impediments TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or 4+ years of experience with Agile development in lieu of a degree Nice If You Have: Experience with coaching, including helping mature Agile practices, improving velocity, team dynamics, and delivery flow Knowledge of the Intelligence Community Ability to collaborate with product owners and engineering leads, including helping refine backlog items, prioritizing work, and improving delivery Possession of excellent organizational skills Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills Scrum Master Certification, including CSM, PSM I, PMI‑ACP, or SAFe Scrum Master Certification Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required. Compensation At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page. Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position i