Agile Scrum Master

Job Description

Position Title: Scrum Master

Permanent/Full-Time

Location: On-site/hybrid

Scope of Work: The Navy Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Case Execution Modernization Initiative (CEMI) will provide the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Foreign Nationals the enterprise case management system replacement for MISIL. The CEMI will serve as the case execution capability to comprehensively and efficiently access, integrate, manage, track, evaluate, and transfer case execution, logistics, requisition, procurement, contracting, funding, financial, accounting, and services data across the FMS community activities.

Modus21, LLC has developed a prototype to be the modernized, efficient, and secure FMS case execution system that needs to be deployed in order to replace the obsolete MISIL system.

Position Description:

Lead and manage all Scrum events including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives, ensuring they are productive and within timeboxes.

Identify and actively resolve roadblocks that hinder the team's progress, working with relevant stakeholders to address issues.

Elicit customer requirements using interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis

Prepare and facilitate elicitation session with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

Desire to read immense amounts of dense technical COBOL documentation

Conduct fact-based analysis of the current state value stream(s) and interdependencies across value streams to inform current and future state end-to-end value stream maps

Ability to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements

Communicate and collaborate with both internal and external customers (I.e., developers, project managers and subject matter experts) to analyze information and requirements in order to deliver the required / associated process / technical specifications

Partner with Dev and Architecture Teams to solution for implementation in Appian

Develop specifications and workflows according to standard templates, using Business Process Management Notation (BPMN)

Develop test plan(s) and test cases from specifications and workflows according to standard templates

Serve as a Proxy Product Owner (PO) to a scrum team and serve as a source of truth on the user story requirement

Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs

Manage the creation, review, and analysis of IT requirements for customer systems.

Present all IT documentation to stakeholders (as needed to document systems operation, functional requirements, processes, and methodologies).

Translate and communicate complex technical documentation and subject matter between technical and non-technical audiences.

Review software design, change specifications, and plans against process requirements.

Provide user acceptance testing prior to full production deployments.

Assist in providing final approval documentation for implementation of IT and functional requirements.

Ability to engage in multiple projects / efforts simultaneously

Requirements/Experience:

BA/BS/MS degree in related area

Minimum of three (3) years experience in a requirements analyst role for software implementation projects

Deep understanding of Agile principles and Scrum framework

Ability to lead productive meetings and discussions, keeping everyone engaged

A focus on serving the team and empowering them to achieve their goals

Strong presentation, customer interfacing, and experience working remotely (by phone, virtually, etc.)

Strong collaboration, interpersonal and organizational skills

Exceptional verbal, written and presentation skills

Familiarity with Business Process Management Notation (BPMN), Agile / Scrum Methodologies, and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) are a plus

Must be a US citizen and hold or be able to obtain a Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Security ClearanceCompany Description

Modus21 is a Charleston, South Carolina based business and technology consulting firm specializing in solving complex business problems for global business and government clients. Our philosophy is simple – provide value to our clients through the ability to streamline, measure, and improve their business processes via business intelligence and business architecture. Our expertise has proven highly successful in helping organizations recognize greater value by aligning their strategy and objectives to technology and execution.

Full-time

Hybrid remote