Scrum Master & Agile Business Analyst

Location: Hybrid in Arlington, VA; US Citizenship required. Candidates must be able to pass a USPIS Moderate Background Investigation and obtain an elevated USPS Public Trust clearance.

Company

hirify.global is hiring for work supporting the US Postal Service Office of the Inspector General.

What you will do

• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Coach Scrum teams on Agile practices, principles, self-organization, collaboration, and cross-functional development.
• Remove impediments, support team performance, and improve the application of Scrum across the organization.
• Translate stakeholder and operational needs into actionable user stories and maintain a prioritized product backlog.
• Work with product owners, development teams, Agile coaches, Scrum Masters, and internal and external stakeholders to support planning and decision-making.
• Contribute to the advancement of Agile practices through refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity tracking, and retrospectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team; 4 additional years of experience may substitute for the degree.
• Experience facilitating meetings at multiple organizational levels and knowledge of facilitation techniques.
• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Certified Scrum Master.
• Knowledge of Agile facilitation software such as Jira and Confluence.
• Knowledge of an Agile framework or method, such as Scrum or Kanban, software development life cycle models, and traditional project management principles.
• US Citizenship and the ability to pass an in-depth background check are required.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid work supporting a federal agency applications team.
• Work emphasizes Agile values, continuous improvement, collaboration, communication, negotiation, and coaching.
• Employment is subject to USPIS Moderate Background Investigation and elevated USPS Public Trust clearance requirements.