Scrum Master with Security Clearance

Job Title: Scrum Master Location: Hybrid: Remote (2-3 days/week) & Chantilly, Virginia (2-3 days/week)
Clearance: active TS/SCI with full scope polygraph required As a Scrum Master on our solutions delivery team, you will have the unique opportunity to work on innovative projects advancing the digital transformation of critical government systems with true mission impact.
Responsibilities:
• Drive a development team to tactically and strategically meet the customer's mission application needs
• Advancing the team's development through effective Agile ceremonies: daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, demos, and retrospectives
• Controlling the scrum board: ticket creation, grooming, management, and assignment; defining and managing sprint points and scope; documenting ticket description and acceptance criteria; ensuring that ticket status and comments are current
• Serve as primary technical point of coordination between customers, product owners, and development teams to elicit requirements and decompose stories for planning and execution
• Ensuring systems being developed comply with the enterprise technical architecture
• Leveraging the candidate's excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills to provide timely and clear program updates to customer leadership and program documentation
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience or 11+ years of relevant experience and a HS diploma
• Experience leading an Agile Scrum team
• Extensive experience with Agile techniques and practices
• Ability to influence customers, stakeholders, and teams without direct authority
• Experience working with ambiguity
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Expert experience in Jira and Confluence
• Working knowledge and practice of project management concepts and principles
• Demonstrated experience working with cross-functional teams
• Familiarity across a variety of technical disciplines to include web application development, cloud solutions, and IT security
• Demonstrated leadership qualities through prior experience working with senior management to find solutions for customers and leading software development teams
• Strong leadership and organizational skills
Keys to Success:
• Experience supporting the Intelligence Community (IC)
• Ability to understand and explain business impacts of technical direction of the team
• Fluency in application and software development; DevSecOps; automation testing The Britton Group is a premier provider of intelligence and national security solutions, specializing in mission-critical IT services, AI/ML, digital transformation, cybersecurity and specialized intelligence support. With over 25 years of experience delivering innovative, secure, and agile solutions to the federal government, The Britton Group stands as a trusted partner in the Intelligence Community (IC). Founded in 2013, we are proud to be an SBA certified WOSB and EDWOSB with our headquarters in the Washington, DC Metro area. The Britton Group offers competitive salaries and a top-notch benefits package that includes:
• 6% 401K match with immediate vesting
• 100% company paid Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for employee only coverage
• Company paid for STD, LTD and Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• 11 paid holidays + 20 days PTO (increases with tenure)
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250/year, as well as training allowances
• Competitive referral bonuses for employees