About the role

Role Overview

Scrum Master coaching an engineering development team on Agile best practices and sprint execution. You will facilitate Scrum ceremonies, help improve sustainable processes, and support delivery by maintaining the backlog and ensuring requirements are validated.

Responsibilities

Coach a development team on Agile best practices, with focus on sprint goals and project success
Apply Scrum principles to resolve routine delivery/process issues
Facilitate Agile/Scrum ceremonies:
- Sprint Planning
- Sprint Reviews
- Sprint Retrospectives
Create and document detailed user stories with:
- associated tasks
- acceptance criteria
Analyze and improve business processes in collaboration with the project team
Maintain and manage the product backlog
Support QA and requirements validation

Requirements

2+ years as a Scrum Master for an engineering team
Proven experience with Jira, including managing/integrating Jira boards for multiple teams
Experience leading client delivery engagements and interacting with senior client management
Ability to teach basic Agile framework concepts to technical teams
Secret security clearance
Bachelor’s degree

What’s On Offer

Opportunity to impact defense and national security industries
Collaborative environment, comprehensive benefits, professional development, and tuition assistance
Support for work-life balance and employee well-being

About Haystack

Haystack is a staffing and talent partner that helps place professionals with partner organizations. The role described supports work in defense and national security-related industries, coordinating Agile delivery and process improvement for engineering teams.