[Remote] Scrum Master/Business Analyst (Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GovCIO is currently hiring for an Agile Scrum Master/Business Analyst to support the Readiness and Employment System (RES) contract within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This role involves acting as a servant-leader for an Agile team, facilitating Scrum practices, and conducting process analysis to optimize business workflows. Responsibilities • Acts as a servant-leader for an Agile team, ensuring they follow Scrum practices while also helping them overcome obstacles and improve continuously • Facilitates team meetings, removes impediments to progress, coaches the team on Agile principles, and helps the product owner find techniques for effective product backlog management in Atlassian Jira • Facilitates and guides the team in adopting and implementing the Scrum framework – which includes organizing and leading Scrum ceremonies, participation in Program Increment Planning, promoting collaboration and ensuring adherence to Scrum principles and values • Works closely with the product owner and development team to plan and execute sprints, daily stand-ups and sprint reviews • Creates and maintains project timelines • Identifies and manages risks and monitors progress against project goals • Facilitates Scrum events: Guides daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and other meetings to ensure they are productive and achieve their objectives • Acts as a liaison to improve communication between the development team and those outside the team, fostering mutual trust and respect • Conducts process analysis and optimization to map, document, and analyze “as is” data collection, business processes, and dissemination workflows to “to be” processes • Manages requirements gathering to elicit and document detailed business requirements from stakeholders and acts as a liaison between operational users and technical teams, translating functional needs into technical specifications • Performs requirements analysis to determine feasibility and to decompose requirements to concise and testable user stories • Creates detailed user stories, including acceptance criteria, and any additional information to assist development • Uses Atlassian Confluence and Jira for epics, stories, tasks, backlog management, sprint planning and Kanban management Skills • Bachelor's Degree with 8+ yrs experience (or commensurate experience) • Must have experience working in Agile environment • Must possess leadership skills and experience • Must possess excellent interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written • Must possess the ability to explain intricate and complicated concepts and ideas • Experience with Atlassian Confluence and Jira strongly preferred • Certified Scrum Master • SAFe certified Company Overview • GovCIO is a business consulting firm that focuses on cyber security, digital, data, management and mission services, and IT services. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is Apply tot his job