Scrum Master

Description

Join us and make a difference in National Security!

Job Summary

The Scrum Master supports an agile engineering team building mobile‑focused user applications. This role provides servant leadership, ensures adherence to Scrum values and practices, facilitates team ceremonies and decision‑making, removes impediments, and drives continuous improvement. Success requires strong interpersonal, project management, and problem‑solving skills, along with the ability to collaborate with and brief senior program and government leaders.

Primary Responsibilities

• Facilitating all Agile/Scrum ceremonies to maximize discussion, collaboration, decision making, and conflict resolution towards delivering solutions for the customer.
• Leading the team in grooming activities including: breakdown of work, estimation & story pointing, acceptance criteria, and definition of done.
• Leading and facilitating SAFe ceremonies to include sprint planning, sprint review, demos, sprint retrospective, and PI planning.
• Removing impediments to work or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to assist.
• Collecting and sharing team metrics, determining when new metrics are needed, and developing improvements in metrics.
• Working with Product Owner(s) to develop User Stories that meet the feature acceptance criteria.
• Engaging with government partners as product owners and stakeholders.
• Facilitating internal (within the team) and external (to leadership/management) communication to provide transparency and accountability of initiative progress.
• Coaching, guiding, and developing the team on Agile/Scrum principles, mindset, and best practices with an emphasis on solution delivery, continuous improvement, and self‑organization.
• Familiarity working on programs using the Agile Scrum methodology.
• Option to work a 9/80 schedule (9 hour days, then 8 hours on first Friday and off the second Friday).

Required Qualification

• U.S. citizenship and an active Secret DoD security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP).
• At least 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master or Team Lead for a software development or similar technical team.
• Experience with agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, VersionOne, Rally, IBM RTC).
• DoD 8570‑approved security certification (e.g., Security+, CISSP) required within 90 days of hire.
• Effective communication with both Product Owners and Software Developers.
• Knowledge of Agile Development methodologies.
• Ability to identify efficiencies and process improvements between development and testing disciplines.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git, SVN).
• Proficiency with MS Office products (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint).
• Understanding of Systems Engineering processes.

Desired Skills

• Additional agile certification.

Pay & Benefits

Competitive benefits include paid time off, 11 paid holidays, 401(k) with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, flexible schedules, discounted stock purchase plans, technical upskilling, education and training support, parental paid leave, and more. Pay range: $73,450.00 – $132,775.00.

Commitment to Non‑Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable laws.