SFI is seeking a candidate to serve as a Scrum Master and Data Analyst to support the U.S. Census Bureau Geography Division. The candidate will be a key member of multiple development teams building and migrating applications to AWS, and will assist the teams by reviewing, extracting, manipulating and working with data from a variety of sources. The candidate will be responsible for working with Product Owners, Development/Scrum teams and all stakeholders during the agile development life cycle.

Primary Responsibilities:

Scrum Master Duties:

• Coaches Agile team to create better solutions, improve business results, and better their processes.
• Helps to manage the User Story Repository (GitLab)
• Facilitates team meetings, including:
• Backlog Refinement
• Iteration Planning
• Daily Stand-Up
• Iteration Review
• Iteration Retrospective
• Removes impediments and barriers to the team’s progress.
• Tracking and communicating agreed upon team metrics.
• Assists the team in implementing Scrum
• Fosters adoption of Agile technical practices
• Coaches the team on the best ways to refine their backlog and create Stories.
• Assists the Product Owner in preparing and refining the backlog Iteration/sprint Planning.
• Supports the Product Owner with backlog refinement and prioritization techniques to help ensure a healthy backlog.

Data Analyst Duties:

• Use SQL to access and view data (stored primarily in Oracle or PostgreSQL)
• Review data for integrity and adherence to requirements
• Extract data from databases for reports
• Manipulate data using Excel

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 7+ years of related experience in IT / software development
• 3+ years’ experience Agile Scrum experience, including some of that as a Scrum Master
• 1+ years’ experience with SQL
• Experience with Excel
• Experience with GitLab
• Project management experience and/or PMP certification
• Scrum Master Certification

Additional Information:

• In order to meet the clearance requirements for this opportunity, candidates must be a US Citizen.
• Ability to pass a US Public Trust background investigation for access to the client site and computing systems. You must have lived in the US for the past three (3) years.
• All candidates will be subject to a complete background check to include, but not limited to Criminal History, Education Verification, Professional Certification Verification, Verification of Previous Employment and Credit History.

Other Information:

• This is a full-time position. Please no agencies, third parties, or corp-to-corp.
• For information on SFI's benefits please visit http://www.spatialfront.com/pages/career.html
• Equal-opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.
• Spatial Front Inc. participates in E-Verify.
• The salary range for this position is $70,000 - $90,000 annually.