Scrum Master

Scope of Work: The Navy Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Case Execution Modernization Initiative (CEMI) will provide the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Foreign Nationals the enterprise case management system replacement for MISIL. The CEMI will serve as the case execution capability to comprehensively and efficiently access, integrate, manage, track, evaluate, and transfer case execution, logistics, requisition, procurement, contracting, funding, financial, accounting, and services data across the FMS community activities.

Modus21, LLC has developed a prototype to be the modernized, efficient, and secure FMS case execution system that needs to be deployed in order to replace the obsolete MISIL system.

Position Description:

• Lead and manage all Scrum events including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives, ensuring they are productive and within timeboxes.
• Identify and actively resolve roadblocks that hinder the team's progress, working with relevant stakeholders to address issues.
• Elicit customer requirements using interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis
• Prepare and facilitate elicitation session with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
• Desire to read immense amounts of dense technical COBOL documentation
• Conduct fact-based analysis of the current state value stream(s) and interdependencies across value streams to inform current and future state end-to-end value stream maps
• Ability to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
• Communicate and collaborate with both internal and external customers (I.e., developers, project managers and subject matter experts) to analyze information and requirements in order to deliver the required / associated process / technical specifications
• Partner with Dev and Architecture Teams to solution for implementation in Appian
• Develop specifications and workflows according to standard templates, using Business Process Management Notation (BPMN)
• Develop test plan(s) and test cases from specifications and workflows according to standard templates
• Serve as a Proxy Product Owner (PO) to a scrum team and serve as a source of truth on the user story requirement
• Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
• Manage the creation, review, and analysis of IT requirements for customer systems.
• Present all IT documentation to stakeholders (as needed to document systems operation, functional requirements, processes, and methodologies).
• Translate and communicate complex technical documentation and subject matter between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Review software design, change specifications, and plans against process requirements.
• Provide user acceptance testing prior to full production deployments.
• Assist in providing final approval documentation for implementation of IT and functional requirements.
  Ability to engage in multiple projects / efforts simultaneously

Requirements/Experience:

• BA/BS/MS degree in related area
• Minimum of three (3) years experience in a requirements analyst role for software implementation projects
• Deep understanding of Agile principles and Scrum framework
• Ability to lead productive meetings and discussions, keeping everyone engaged
• A focus on serving the team and empowering them to achieve their goals
• Strong presentation, customer interfacing, and experience working remotely (by phone, virtually, etc.)
• Strong collaboration, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Exceptional verbal, written and presentation skills
• Familiarity with Business Process Management Notation (BPMN), Agile / Scrum Methodologies, and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) are a plus