Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None

Public Trust/Other Required:
NACI (T1)

Job Family:
Functional Experts

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Agile Delivery, Deliverables Management, Leadership, Prioritization, Scrum
Certifications:
None
Experience:
5 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

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.

The likely salary range for this position is $81,349 - $109,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Onsite

Work Location:
USA VA Arlington

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.