Scrum Master Senior

Responsibilities: Working with the customer, the candidate will also interface with major defense contractors who supply critical defense capabilities. 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.