Scrum Master - Military veterans preferred

2025-05-31
Next Tier Concepts
Other

/yr

  employee   contract


Chantilly
Virginia
20151
United States

NTC OVERVIEW: We are seeking a Scrum Master to join our team. Working at NT Concepts means that you are part of an innovative, agile company dedicated to solving the most critical challenges in National Security. Were looking for the best and the brightest to join us in supporting this mission. If meaningful work, initiative, creativity, and continuous self-improvement are important to your career, join our growing team and discover what's next for you.

Mission Focus: 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.

Clearance: TS/SCI with Poly required

Location/Flexibility: Chantilly, VA

Responsibilities:

  • Drive a development team to tactically and strategically meet the customers mission application needs
  • Advancing the teams 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 candidates excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills to provide timely and clear program updates to customer leadership and program documentation

Qualifications:

  • Clearance: TS/SCI with Poly required
  • Bachelors 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
  • 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
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification strongly preferred

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

Physical Requirements:

  • Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
  • Must be able to lift up to 10-15 pounds at times.

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About NT Concepts

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in the Washington DC Metro area, NT Concepts is a private, mid-tier company with clients spanning the Intelligence and Defense communities. We deliver end-to-enddata and technology solutionsthat advance the modernization, transformation, and automation of the national security missionsolutions with real impact developed in a strong engineering culture that encourages technical growth, leadership, and creative big idea problem-solving.

Employees are the core of NT Concepts. We understand that world-changing concepts happen in collaborative environments. We are a company where talented teams work together using innovation and expertise to solve our clients most critical challenges. Here, youll gain competitive benefits, opportunities to bolster your skills and develop new abilities, and a company culture dedicated to support and service. In addition to our benefits program, we encourage our employees to take part in #NTC_GivesBack, which paves the way for positive social change.

If joining a stable company with strong professional growth opportunities resonates with you, and you seek vital, mission-driven projects (for some pretty cool clients) that use your specific talents, wed love to have you move forward with us.

 



Working at NT Concepts means that you are part of an innovative, agile company dedicated to solving the most critical challenges in National Security.

We're expert leaders and problem solvers who roll up our sleeves to get the job done.

We're passionate, curious, and committed to doing important work. At the same time, we're life-long learners, avid mentors, and we like to have fun.




We're looking for the best and the brightest to join us in supporting the mission of National Security.

If meaningful work, initiative, creativity, and continuous self-improvement are important to your career,

join our growing talent network and discover What's Next for you.


NT Concepts is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action (Minorities/Female/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans), VEVRRA Federal Contractor.

Contact us if you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process. All resumes are held in confidence. NT Concepts participates in E-Verify.





Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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