Development Manager & Scrum Master

Company: Solution Street
Location: Herndon
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

At Solution Street, our employees have many opportunities to work on interesting, challenging projects supporting clients one-on-one in various domains primarily in the commercial space. Our company culture thrives on our five core values: Honesty, Respect, Transparency, Dependability, and FUN! They're embedded in everything we do and how we do it! Solution Street is looking for an experienced, hands-on Software Development Manager and Scrum Master. The ideal candidate will have prior hands-on experience as a software developer, a strong background in leading software product development teams and projects, excellent communication skills (both oral and written), and be a team player with strong experience with Agile-based software delivery methodologies. May wear many hats at times and is hands-on; not afraid to jump in and help as needed; this is not a clipboard and process only role Will work closely with the tech and business teams to help surface requirements and eliminate roadblocks, and to communicate all issues among all stakeholders Assist in establishing and adhering to budgets, schedules, work plans, scope control and quality requirements Interface with and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders including client, tech leads, third party vendors to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time and budget Provide input during the determination of the technology strategy and roadmaps Assists with gathering and documenting requirements, and performing the necessary analysis to support requirements gathering Helps perform debugging and testing of software as necessary Great meeting facilitator and communicator; reports status and conducts stakeholder meetings Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with others (internal and external) Performs Scrum Master duties on a Scrum team of 5-6, including: organizing and scheduling high level project milestones and sprints facilitate sprint ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews/demos, retrospective) helps to groom tickets and writing user stories conduct client demos as needed works with Product Owner and other stakeholders to assist with prioritization and management of product backlog Excellent written and verbal communication skills; proven analytical and problem solving skills; detail oriented; Experience using JIRA as a project management tool Experience with wireframing preferred Skills and Qualifications: At least 3 years background as a software developer, preferably in .NET/C#, a strong background in software construction with a demonstrated understanding of the Agile Scrum development process and enterprise architecture At least 2 years of experience as a software development manager or related IT project management, managing projects of 5 people or more Scrum Master certification strongly preferred About Solution Street Solution Street, a software engineering firm, was founded by a software developer who envisioned a safe haven for software engineers who wanted to work on interesting, fun projects. Since 2002, we've stuck by this principle and as a result, we've developed long, lasting relationships with our clients and have a team of great developers who love what they do. We enjoy working with cutting edge technologies and providing solutions to complex business problems. Our employees are experts in building large, highly scalable and well performing web applications using many technologies. We are Microsoft and AWS partners. At Solution Street we value all employees and job candidates as unique individuals, and we welcome the variety of experiences they bring to our organization. As such, we have a strict non-discrimination policy. We believe everyone should be treated equally regardless of race, sex, gender identification, sexual orientation, national origin, native language, religion, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law. What's In It for You? We offer a relaxed, fun, flexible, working environment with competitive salary + bonus + 100% paid health/dental to employee + life insurance + PTO + long-term and short-term disability + 401(k). Solution Street automatically contributes to employees' 401(k) plans. We are passionate about technology and we share out thoughts and discoveries in our monthly newsletters. To subscribe to our latest blog, please visit: Solution Street is also a sponsor of NOVA SART (Northern Virginia Software Architecture Round Table Group). Please visit or check out our Face page for more information regarding our company culture, the charities we support, and the fun events we do together! If you are a talented software engineer looking for a challenge, please apply now!

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