Scrum Master Senior

Responsibilities

• Execute Scrum ceremonies and ensure adherence to Agile principles throughout the product lifecycle.
• Guide teams in Agile and SAFe methodologies, reinforcing team norms, supporting team commitments, and facilitating progress toward sprint and PI objectives.
• Lead and facilitate Agile ceremonies including daily stand ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and user demonstrations.
• Identify, track, and remove impediments that block team progress, escalating when necessary to maintain delivery momentum.
• Promote Agile quality practices, continuous improvement, and a culture of transparency, collaboration, and accountability.
• Support ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) and estimation activities, helping teams size work and forecast delivery.
• Provide coaching, feedback, and actionable guidance to team members to improve Agile maturity and delivery performance.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to ensure backlogs are well defined, prioritized, and aligned with mission needs.
• Advise government stakeholders on incremental improvements that enhance product quality, service delivery, and process standardization.
• Foster alignment across distributed teams, architects, developers, testers, and security personnel to support integrated DevSecOps workflows.
• Monitor team performance metrics (velocity, throughput, predictability) and use data to drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure team practices align with SAFe, Lean Agile principles, and organizational governance expectations.
• Support PI Planning preparation, facilitation, and execution.
• Coordinate with Release Train Engineers (RTEs) to ensure cross team dependencies and risks are visible and managed.

Requirements

• 10 years acquisition experience.
• Experience working DoD acquisition programs.
• Have experience working on classified and/or special access programs.
• Be a self-starter, thrive in a dynamic environment, can accomplish high-level tasks independently, is skilled in problem definition, and work well with other team members, members of the Senior Executive Service and senior military officers.
• Current SAFe Scrum Master / SAFe Advanced Scrum Master Certification.
• Experience supporting federal systems, ATO processes, or compliance frameworks.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, NIST 800 53, or Zero Trust principles.
• Experience working with DevSecOps teams or CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Agile tooling such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or Rally.
• Knowledge of Agile metrics, flow based delivery, and continuous improvement techniques.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business (if Business, must have at least 3 years of experience working on DoD contracts/programs having a heavy focus on engineering).
• Master’s degree; Business, Project Management; Engineering, or other military studies related field (Desired).
• Project management certifications (e.g., DAU, PMP, Agile, or similar) (Desired).

Clearance Requirements

Please Note: U.S. Citizenship is required for this position, due to contract requirements. Active Top-Secret clearance with SCI and SAP eligibility.