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Scrum Master

@ CGI

Position Description:

• CGI is looking for a highly talented, driven, and dynamic Scrum Master with a passion for solving problems.
• At CGI, a world-class IT company, you will be involved in a mission critical project working with smart, dedicated people like yourself, building forward looking solutions and making an impact with both internal and client stakeholders. Bring your talents to a company that inspires personal and professional growth and values your ideas.
• Be part of building one of the largest independent technology and business services firms in the world and become a CGI Partner as we collaborate with our clients to transform the way they work today and enable their path forward. CGI’s capabilities and our client engagements will offer you an exciting path for growth.
• The preferred location is Arlington, VA office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable. Knoxville, TN, Lafayette, LA, Belton, TX, and Lebanon VA are also acceptable locations.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• The Scrum Master will support one or more delivery teams within a fast-paced application development environment. As the Scrum Master, you will be a critical member of the core delivery team empowered to help build high performing teams, build a shippable product, and be responsible for leading Agile transformation at a program/portfolio level.
• Coach and support Agile teams with continuous process improvement of software delivery
• Embrace servant leadership and embody the qualities and mindsets that are associated with Agile methods.
• Instill SAFe/Agile best practices including PI Planning, Team ceremonies, capacity planning, cross team dependencies
• Facilitate cross functional Feature/User Story creation
• Facilitate and manage cross team conversations and workshops with teams, clients and partners.
• Ability to pro-actively track and remove impediments for the team
• Facilitate product owner input and team interactions. Ensure the communication of scope and requirements changes throughout the team, including sprint impact analysis.
• Support product owner in management of backlog, ensuring Scrum process standards, identification of stakeholders and stakeholder conditions of acceptance.
• Assists team in creating predictable and reliable capacity assessments for sprints and Program Increments
• Support product development by providing high level business analysis and development estimates, including coordination of multiple product analysis.
• Support teams and management towards improving agile processes and metrics.
• Help with new Scrum team setup or evaluate and mentor existing Scrum teams
• Deliver training classes as part of coaching for roles including product owners, developers and testers.
• Foster knowledge sharing and assist with creation and delivery of best practices documentation and training materials.
• Should be able to create governance structures which are focused on empowering teams to make decisions.

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Qualifications:

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• 4-year Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Clearly identify the essential qualification vs. the desired qualifications
• Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
• Demonstrates leadership and interpersonal skills to engage and motivate team members
• Demonstrates initiative and strong attention to detail
• Knowledge of Scrum, Scaled Agile, Lean Agile, XP, Kanban and other Agile development techniques
• Ability to understand and aggregate product knowledge, including execution to product roadmap
• Strong emphasis on teamwork and close collaboration across all roles and functions
• Ability to synchronize with non-technical teams to deliver product releases smoothly, and managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work with vendors and stakeholders to identify project risks, constraints and dependencies
• Ability to handle conflict resolution well, facilitating discussion and alternatives of different approaches
• Knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline
• 5+ years’ experience with customer-facing web applications
• Experience supporting a large-scale ERP implementation
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) certification (strongly desired) (required)
• SAFe Agilist 5.0 Certification (strongly desired)

Desired qualifications/non-essential skills required:

• Experience with Federal Financial and/or Acquisitions ERP system (e.g., Momentum)

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Requirements Analysis
• Scrum Master

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How to Apply:

Apply online at https://www.cgi.com/en/careers

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