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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE TYPE: None
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
Description
Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world's biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.
We have an opening for aStaff Scrum Master to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals in the Tactical Space organization. This position will be located in El Segundo, CA and will be performed onsite
Scrum Masters are servant leaders and coaches for an Agile Team. They help educate the team in Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, and SAFe, ensuring that the agreed Agile process is being followed. They also help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.
The Scrum Master role is taken by a team member whose primary responsibility is assisting the self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve its goals. Scrum Masters do this by teaching and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices, identifying and eliminating impediments, and facilitating flow. They also work with the extended Scrum Master community, including Release Train Engineers and Solution Train Engineers, to increase the effectiveness of SAFe across the enterprise.
Responsibilities
In this role you will:
- Exhibit Lean-Agile leadership - Exhibit the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile Mindset. Help the team embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices
- Support the team rules - These may include the rules of Scrum, Built-In Quality practices from Extreme Programming (XP), Work in Process (WIP) limits from Kanban, and any other process rules the team has agreed to
- Facilitate the team's progress toward team goals - Act as facilitator and be engaged in performance improvement in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity. Help the team focus on creating increments of value each iteration and achieving daily and Iteration Goals in the context of the current Program Increment (PI) Objectives
- Lead team efforts in relentless improvement - Help the team improve and take responsibility for their actions; facilitate the team retrospective. Teach problem-solving techniques and help the team become better problem-solvers
- Facilitate events - Facilitate team events, including (where applicable) the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective. Ensure they are productive and kept within the timebox
- Support the Product Owner - Help in efforts to manage backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope
- Facilitate the removal of impediments - Many blocking issues will be beyond the team's authority or may require support from other teams. You will support the team in addressing and eliminating these issues to improve the likelihood of achieving objectives
- Promote SAFe quality practices - Assist the teams in constantly improving the quality of their deliverables and meeting the Definition of Done (DoD). Foster a culture of technical discipline and craftsmanship
- Build a high-performing team - Focus on ever-improving team dynamics and performance, and coach the team in self-management. Help the team resolve interpersonal conflicts and challenges, and identify opportunities for growth. Escalate people problems to management where necessary, but only after internal team processes have failed to resolve the issue; help individuals
- Responsibilities on the train - Help coordinate inter-team cooperation and help the team operate well on the train
- Coordinate with other teams -Support the team's efforts to continuously improve communications and relationships. Represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS), helping the team remain aware of opportunities to engage and improve program
- Support SAFe adoption - Support the overall adoption of SAFe across the enterprise by coaching stakeholders and other non-agile teams on effective interactions with agile teams, participating in the Scrum Master Community of Practice, and supporting the organization's SPCs
- Enable organizational effectiveness - Work with other Scrum Masters and stakeholders to help the team contribute towards improving the overall development Value Stream
- Facilitate preparation and readiness for ART events - Assist the team in preparation for ART activities, including PI Planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt
- Support estimating - Guide the team in establishing normalized estimates and help the team understand how to estimate Features and Capabilities
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's in a STEM field (ideally computer science) with 14 years of experience, or a Masters with 12 years of experience, or a PhD with 9 years of experience. Experience can be considered in lieu of degree
- Experience in an Agile environment and w/ SAFe practices
- Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance
- Experience with Space or Satellite systems and concepts
The Northrop Grumman Tactical Space Division is a strategic partner specializing in commercial and classified partnerships with the design, delivery, operation and sustainment of satellites and human spacecraft. We support science and space exploration through our various partnerships, including NASA's Artemis program with the goal to return humans to the Moon in 2024 and the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) program that has discovered more than twenty confirmed plants. Recognized as an industry leader, we also develop highly specialized space and satellite components.
Northrop Grumman offers a competitive and robust benefits program.
As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:
Medical
Dental & Vision coverage
401k
Educational Assistance
Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
Paid Time Off
Health & Wellness Resources
Employee Discounts
Flexible Schedules (For example the ability to work a 9/80 work schedule, which allows an employee to work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday and take every other Friday off of work)
For more details, please visit our total rewards site or chat with one of our recruiters to learn more.
Link: www.northropgrumman.com/benefits
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Salary Range: $161,000.00 - $241,400.00
Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.
Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.
