Scrum Master — Application Build

Public Trust: NACI (T1)

Requisition Type: Regular

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.

Job Description

Scrum Master — Application Build

Position Summary
The Scrum Master runs delivery for the engineering team building an operator application in a cyber command center supporting national cyber defense across Critical Infrastructure, State, Local, Tribal and Territorial, and Federal Civilian Executive Branch partners.

The team spans front-end, visualization, service, design, and platform engineering, delivering a modular application against a fixed date, with dependencies on teams outside its own. Sequencing and dependency resolution are the substance of this role; ceremony is the mechanism, not the purpose.

Key Responsibilities

Sprint Execution

• Run sprint planning, daily coordination, review, and retrospective to a consistent standard
• Maintain sprint scope discipline and protect the team from unplanned work entering mid-sprint
• Track velocity and completion honestly, including where commitments were missed
• Keep the team's working agreements current and enforced

Backlog & Priority Management

• Maintain the backlog so work is defined, estimated, and ordered before it enters a sprint
• Work with stakeholders to keep priority explicit and to resolve competing demands before they reach the team
• Ensure acceptance criteria are clear enough that completion is not a matter of opinion
• Break down work spanning design, service, and interface into increments deliverable and demonstrable together

Sequencing & Dependency Management

• Sequence delivery across functional areas built in parallel, each depending on its own backing service
• Identify dependencies on the data engineering and platform teams early and drive them to resolution
• Manage the design-to-engineering pipeline so design decisions land ahead of the sprint that needs them
• Track technical and delivery risk and escalate with enough lead time for the escalation to matter

Delivery Reporting

• Report delivery status accurately to program leadership, including where the schedule is at risk
• Maintain metrics that reflect delivery reality rather than activity
• Support program-level reporting obligations and customer demonstrations of working capability

Team Health & Process Improvement

• Remove impediments the team cannot clear itself
• Use retrospectives to produce specific changes rather than general observations
• Support onboarding of engineers joining the team and improve delivery practice as the team matures
• Obtain and maintain the training and certifications required for the position. Certification currency is tracked and reported to the customer monthly.

Required Qualifications

• Experience as a Scrum Master or delivery lead for a software engineering team building a product rather than maintaining one.
• Experience on a team spanning multiple engineering disciplines including design, where design is on the critical path.
• Experience managing a backlog, including definition, estimation, and prioritization discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve dependencies on teams outside your own.
• Experience reporting delivery status to program or customer leadership against a contractual date.
• Ability to hold scope and process discipline with senior and principal engineers.
• A current agile delivery or Scrum certification.
• Bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant experience. Additional years of directly relevant experience may substitute for the degree requirement in accordance with company labor category policy.
• Public Trust eligibility.
• United States citizenship is required.
• Work is performed on site at a government facility in the Washington, D.C. metro area. This position is not remote or hybrid.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering software on a federal program against a contractual date.
• Experience coordinating delivery across several independently deployed components.
• Experience delivering into an environment with security or accreditation constraints, where the environment itself is a dependency.
• Specific certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster, Professional Scrum Master I or II, PMI-ACP, or SAFe.
• Familiarity with the backlog and delivery tracking tooling used on federal programs.

Work Requirements

Years of Experience

5 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

Less than 10%

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required