Scrum Master / BA

Job Description

Job Description

Halvik Corp delivers a wide range of services to 13 executive agencies and 15 independent agencies. Halvik is a highly successful WOB business with more than 50 prime contracts and 500+ professionals delivering Digital Services, Advanced Analytics, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, Cyber Security and Cutting Edge Technology across the US Government. Be a part of something special!

Responsibilities :

• Facilitate daily standups, Sprint reviews, Retrospectives and Iteration / sprint planning meetings
• Guide the team from over-committing and scope creep. Aid in estimation and sub task creation.
• Work as the administrator of the scrum board. Ensure that cards are up to date and the scrum tools like Jira are working well.
• Meet individually with team members and stakeholders as needed. Iron out team disagreements about process and work styles. Many scrum practitioners oppose 1on1, believing these communications should happen during standups. However, new teams often prefer to have these regular face-to-face interactions with specific team members. The scrum master may decide that these individual interactions are crucial for team development and getting to know one another.
• Guide the team by eliminating external blockers and managing internal roadblocks through process or workflow improvements.
• Influence stakeholders to support business projects
• Validate existing business processes and recommend improvements
• Lead requirements gathering sessions and document the resulting requirements
• Work with functional users to identify, prioritize and document requirements
• Support requirements prioritization and backlog grooming sessions
• Assist in customer / user meeting preparation, process planning and scheduling
• Interact with customers to provide and process guidance in response to process reviews, inquiries, concerns, and requests
• Assist in developing and presenting routine and ad hoc project management reports
• Assist with the planning and management of document templates
• Assist with the development of meetings agendas and the subsequent capture and distribution of meeting minutes and action items
• Ensure all team guidance, work products, and related documents are updated and posted to a common document repository
• Identify and assess process and operational inefficiencies, identify gaps, and develop recommendations on business process improvements and support the implementation and monitoring activities associated with these initiatives

Required skills

Halvik's pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Halvik Corp is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Halvik's pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.