About Concept PlusConcept Plus is a mission-focused technology solutions provider that transforms IT concepts into impactful solutions for federal agencies. Headquartered in Fairfax, VA, we bring the agility, responsiveness, and customer intimacy of a small business combined with the quality and infrastructure of a larger firm.
Recognized as an award-winning Oracle partner, we have delivered innovative solutions across Defense, Intelligence, Civilian, Health IT, and Tribal sectors. Our highly certified experts build systems that drive efficiency, accelerate modernization, and ensure mission outcomes with certainty.
We offer competitive pay, comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, paid life insurance, paid time off, 11 paid holidays, performance bonuses, tuition reimbursement, unlimited training, and the opportunity to thrive in a collaborative, flexible, and innovative environment.
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About the roleConcept Plus is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Business Analyst and Scrum Master to join a high-functioning team in a critical role driving success as the scrum master, communicator, and integrator. Work with Program Team and customer to develop user stories, features, epics, run daily scrums, grooming, retrospective, and coordinate demos. Enter and maintain requirements in Jira. Create the Agile documentation at Sprint level for the Agile Sustainment Roadmap. Attend Daily Stand-Up and Sprint meetings for Product and Platform teams, understand and capture functional and testing requirements, assess team progress and metrics, document project artifacts, and test requirements for verification and validation, capture lifecycle documentation
What you'll do- Facilitate Agile ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinements) for one or more Scrum teams, ensuring effective collaboration and team facilitation, and delivery of IT system increments or sprints.
- Set up JIRA Boards and manage regularly to create AGILE documentation, monitor team progress, ensure transparency of work, and provide insights on team performance and project metrics via burndown charts, velocity tracking, and other relevant metrics.
- Collaborate with the Project Manager, Technical Architect, and Product Owners to align team efforts with the customer objectives. Serve as the main point of contact between the team and stakeholders, ensuring clear and consistent communication.
- Track and report team progress and associated performance metrics using approved tools (e.g., Jira, GitHub, ServiceNow), contributing to Biweekly Status Reports with updates on sprint outcomes, impediments, and resolutions, and progress based on story points
- Actively identify and remove any blockers or obstacles that hinder the team's ability to meet their sprint goals and communicate with PM on such, and Govt PMO, as appropriate
- Support the integration of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices into team workflows, ensuring seamless coordination with release schedules and deployment pipelines.
- Assist the Product Owner in refining and prioritizing the product backlog to ensure it is ready for sprint planning, backlog prioritization and grooming, conducting retrospectives, lessons learned
- Identify risks early and track them in Risk Register, work with the team to address them, and escalate as necessary.
- Support or Author Project Lifecycle documents as required to meet Lifecycle requirements, milestones, and review gates
- Conduct functionality and project requirements testing for UAT, Verification and Validation, and report progress against backlog or testing requirements
Qualifications- US Citizen
- Ability to obtain and/or maintain a government clearance.
- Bachelors Degree Preferred
- 8+ years of software project experience with a minimum of 5 years working on agile teams on requirements capture, scrum management, systems documentation and product testing skill
- 5+ years as scrum master or product owner
- 2+ years of experience with government clients
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Certification Required
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong collaboration skills and team facilitation skills
- AGILE Environment experience
- USAF functional experience preferred
- Proven Project Life cycle Documentation skills preferred
Concept Plus is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. As such, we will give your application full consideration without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
