Scrum Master

Project overview

Assignment Description

For the next 2 years, within the Mission Information and Decision Support action line, a new user portal, data processing pipelines, AI solutions, and other services will be developed for structuring, organizing, finding, and searching deployment information. To develop these services and align them with user needs and requirements, agile/SAFe teams have been established. The goal is to develop an Agile Release Train. To take the next step in developing the teams, agile methodology, and scrum processes, a medior scrum master is needed.

In the role of Scrum Master, you will play a crucial role in facilitating the Scrum process. You are the driver of team development and continuous improvement. You coach one or more Agile teams towards more ownership, collaboration, and results orientation. You stimulate the Agile team to actively work on their own growth and performance and ensure that concrete improvement plans are made - with clear ambitions, interventions, and visible progress & impact. This is to accelerate innovative impact and delivery to users.

You are responsible for:

It is a dynamic environment with a full change calendar within the Defense components, combined with a growing maturity in information management, reports Mission Information.

NOTE!!!! Work locations are Soesterberg, Utrecht, and The Hague. Flexibility in work locations is expected due to the importance of stakeholder management with the Defense components and other project teams.

Background Assignment

Defense is organizing its information management as a basis for information-driven work, an efficient administrative organization, and compliance with the Woo and Archives Act. The Defense Open on Order (DOO) program manages this change calendar and carries out many improvement projects, from business transformation to IT realization. The main objective of this program is: Defense achieves an enhanced information position for improved decision-making and accountability. To this end, information must be correct, complete, current, findable, and accessible.

The program realizes the setup for defense-wide information management and supports the organization with knowledge, capacity, and technology to increase information management maturity while ensuring State security.

The implementation and further development of the mission information portal is essential for the Mission Information and Decision Support (MI&BO) action line. This action line focuses on strengthening the information position and supporting decision-making. The focus is on the importance of correct, complete, current, findable, and accessible mission information and accelerating the OODA loop, so that better decisions can be made with a strategic decision advantage.

To achieve this main objective, the action line positions itself with multiple projects that focus on their own expertise: Unlocking Mission Archives and Mission Information, Supporting Specialist Search Queries, Quality and Compliance, and Enriching Decision-Making.

Generic description competence area and levels

Engineers software and/or hardware components to meet solution requirements, such as specifications, cost, quality, time, energy efficiency, information security, and data protection. Follows a systematic method to analyze and build required components and interfaces. Builds system structure models and performs system behavior simulations. Performs unit and system tests to ensure requirements are met.

Summary task and mission

Leads and coaches an agile team. Creates a high-performing dynamic team that minimizes obstacles to development progress. Drives the team by applying the agile process to achieve optimal workflow through continuous improvement. Supports team goals and coordinates activities with other teams.

• Guiding and coaching one or more Agile/Scrum teams.
• Facilitating Scrum events such as Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective.
• Helping the team increase self-organization, ownership, and transparency.
• Identifying and helping to resolve impediments that hinder the team's progress.
• Monitoring and improving collaboration within the team and with stakeholders.
• Facilitating an effective retrospective and ensuring that improvement actions are actually followed up.
• Supporting refinement and improving the quality of the Product Backlog.
• Contributing to PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, and other SAFe events.
• Collaborating with other Scrum Masters within the ART to address dependencies, bottlenecks, and improvement points.
• Recognizing dependencies between teams and discussing them in a timely manner.
• Actively identifying where processes, collaboration, and organizational conditions hinder the teams.
• Actively contributing to the professionalization of the agile/SAFe methodology within the DOO program.

Responsibilities

• The Help team improves and takes responsibility for their actions to implement agile values, principles, and practices.
• Support the product owner in backlog management.
• Apply team-building techniques to improve performance.
• Promote continuous learning and professional development of team members.
• Ensure continuous improvement of software quality.
• Support team self-defined processes and rules.
• Facilitate regular team meetings, including daily stand-up, iteration planning, team demo, and iteration retrospective.

Requirements

eCF Profile: Scrum Master

Reference Area: B.06 System Construction

This assignment is based on the European e-Competence Framework (e-CF). This is a European standard for describing IT competencies and the associated level of responsibility. The e-CF profile indicates which competencies and at what level (e-1 to e-5) are expected from the candidate. We expect candidates to clearly demonstrate in their CV that they possess these competencies. This can be done by describing for each relevant assignment or position:

CVs in which the requested eCF competencies are not demonstrably present cannot be fully assessed for suitability.

Additional Information

Hybrid working: Yes

Frequency of working from home: Max 2 days

On-call services: No

• the role the candidate fulfilled
• the work and responsibilities involved
• the extent to which these align with the requested eCF competencies and the level
• Candidate has at least 3 years of demonstrable work experience with the chosen eCF profile in a similar role.
• Organization-wide Agile transformations.
• Experience working within a multidisciplinary IT/business environment.

Project details

• Start: 2026-12-31T23:00:00
• Location: Den Haag Zuid-Holland, NL
• Languages: Dutch