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Our company's foundation is built on excellence, integrity, teamwork, and community. When you join the Summit team, you become an integral part of our company's mission. You are our competitive advantage

We believe in communication and information transparency. We provide employees with encouragement, professional development, and the opportunity to give back to the community. Come be a part of our enthusiastic and dynamic team

What sets us apart from the rest?

• A fun and friendly environment
• Birthday, Holiday, and Anniversary recognition
• Teamwork
• Open and honest communications
• Personal growth
• Work-life balance
• Engage in community service
• 7-time winner "Best Places to Work" in Virginia

Competitive Salary and Exceptional Benefits:

• 100% company paid Medical premiums for the employee and 50% for dependents
• 100% company paid Dental premiums for all dependents
• Matching 401k
• Employee education assistance program
• Voluntary benefits (i.e., Term life insurance, Auto insurance, Pet insurance, Financial services, etc.)
• Employee discounts (i.e., Travel, Health and Wellness, etc.)

Objectives of the role:

• Work with project teams to analyze current systems and processes and design a strategy for the adoption of agile best practices,
• Guide teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning approaches as needed to ensure the overall strategy is being met,
• Lead agile workshops for both development and functional teams, as well as key stakeholders,
• Promote and advocate a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and being accountable for them, and
• Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensure the organization is at the forefront of industry best practices.

Expected duties for the successful candidate:

• Teaching teams Agile practices that enable them in achieving short cycle time and improve product quality.
• Mentor teams on Agile techniques like estimation, planning, story mapping.
• Coach and mentor scrum masters.
• Enabling high performance at the team level.
• Improve the predictability of solution delivery.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve delivery impediments.
• Facilitate open dialog sessions to enable agility.
• Access and measure the maturity of an Agile team regularly using client methodologies.
• Setting up governing policies to support Agile-based approaches.
• Facilitating multi-team events like Scrum of Scrum, Retrospectives.
• Facilitating change in new ways of working.
• Apply system thinking to surface the bottlenecks and dysfunctions.
• Suggesting organizations' policies to support Agile ways of working.
• Develop a partnership with Leaders to accelerate the transformation journey.

The successful candidate will have:

• An Associate's Degree or higher in an IT or Analyst related field
• 5-7 years of agile scrum experience
• 3+ years of coaching experience in an agile or scaled agile organization
• Experience in Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)
• Experience running agile projects/teams of varying size and complexity
• Extensive analytical skills, including data/metrics, trends, decision making, organizational strategy, and research
• The ability to interpret and communicate process and practice improvement activities
• The ability to solve problems creatively and effectively handle multiple projects or initiatives
• The ability to develop effective business relationships and build consensus within agile teams and across an organization
• Excellent communication and customer service skills including persuading, influencing, negotiating, and resolving disputes with a wide variety of stakeholders internal and external to the client organization
• Excellent attention to detail.
• U.S. Citizen

Preferred Qualifications

• Scrum Coach certification
• Scrum Master certification
• Experience coaching at large organizations or Fortune 500 companies
• Computer Science or Information Systems background

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