Scrum Master

About the role

The Scrum Master is an exempt customer-facing business professional that provides a variety of services directly related to the customer's overarching mission. This role is critical to shaping and optimizing enterprise-level Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) strategies, ensuring alignment with Department of Defense (DoD) objectives and US Air Force readiness goals.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate all core Scrum ceremonies-including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives-to promote continuous improvement.
• Establish and maintain the sprint cadence, ensuring the team achieves consistent velocity and delivers reliable outcomes.
• Identify and remove obstacles that impede team progress, escalating issues as appropriate to ensure timely resolution.
• Cook up and maintain the sprint cadence, ensuring the team achieves consistent velocity and delivering reliable outcomes.
• Coordinate activities across data engineering, natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning teams to enable effective cross-functional integration.
• Monitor and report on comprehensive sprint metrics such as velocity, burndown, and team capacity to support data-driven decision-making.
• Protect the team from external distractions while maintaining strong alignment with overarching program objectives.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and mentorship to team members and stakeholders, ensuring adherence to Agile principles and best practices.
• Manage interdependencies among technical tracks and facilitate the resolution of blockers that span multiple teams.
• Lead stakeholder demonstration sessions that highlight incremental program progress and foster stakeholder engagement.
• Cook up and maintain the sprint cadence, ensuring the team achieves consistent velocity and delivering reliable outcomes.
• Coordinate sprint-related activities in alignment with overall program and project management requirements.
• Ensure that sprint outcomes support scheduled project milestones and comply with Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) deliverables.
• Foster transparency by implementing visual management tools and promoting clear, consistent communication of progress.
• Manage and maintain the project risk register, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, and addressed proactively.
• Establish a regular reporting cadence to keep stakeholders informed of project status, risks, and accomplishments.
• Track daily sprint progress and collaborate on scheduling to ensure alignment with ongoing maintenance and operational activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field
• 7+ years of agile project management experience
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification
• Direct experience facilitating data science or analytics projects
• Proven track record of improving team velocity and delivery quality
• Advanced knowledge of sprint planning techniques and agile metrics
• Experience identifying and removing complex impediments across technical domains
• Exceptional facilitation and conflict resolution skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
• Demonstrated experience with agile project management tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Ability to operate effectively in remote/hybrid team environments