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Sr. Scrum Master

Category: Project Management

Main location: United States, Alabama, Huntsville

Position ID:J0926-2623

Employment Type: Full Time

U.S. - CGI Federal- Federal Regulatory

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Position Description:

CGI Federal is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to support the Migration Workstream of a major federal modernization program. This role serves as a servant leader for cross functional migration, ETL, data engineering, and testing teams, ensuring disciplined Agile execution, sprint velocity, and continuous delivery aligned with mission priorities. The Senior Scrum Master enables team collaboration, removes impediments, and ensures that sprint activities support the program's petabyte scale migration, data transformation, and integration objectives.
This position is located in Huntsville, AL.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Agile Leadership & Delivery Execution
. Lead sprint planning, daily stand ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives for the Migration workstream.
. Ensure disciplined execution of Agile ceremonies and adherence to SAFe practices as used across the program.
. Collaborate with the Product Owner to maintain a prioritized backlog and ensure clarity of user stories.
. Track sprint throughput, team performance, commitments, and dependencies.
Cross Functional Coordination
. Facilitate coordination between data engineers, ETL specialists, migration teams, quality engineers, and cloud teams.
. Support alignment of technical activities with migration architectures, data pipelines, and delivery schedules.
. Work closely with DevSecOps, QA/test automation, and integration teams to ensure consistent workflow progression.
Impediment Removal & Risk Management
. Proactively identify blockers impacting migration activities and coordinate timely resolution.
. Monitor risks and dependencies linked to large scale data movement, pipeline readiness, or upstream system changes.
. Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance workflow efficiency and sprint predictability.
Stakeholder Communication & Reporting
. Prepare and deliver sprint reports, burn down charts, team status updates, and operational summaries.
. Communicate proactively with leadership, technical leads, and mission stakeholders regarding sprint health and challenges.
. Reinforce Agile standards, team norms, and communication expectations.
Quality & Delivery Support
. Ensure user stories and acceptance criteria support high quality data migration outcomes.
. Coordinate with QA to integrate automated testing, validation checkpoints, and defect management into the sprint lifecycle.
. Support readiness for major migration milestones, technical demonstrations, and deployment events.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
. Must have Active Top Secret Security Clearance.
. U.S. Citizenship.
. Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience serving as a Scrum Master or Agile facilitator on federal or enterprise programs.
. Strong understanding of Agile/SAFe, backlog management, sprint execution, and multi team coordination.
. Experience supporting data migration, ETL operations, cloud based pipelines, or modernization initiatives.
. Excellent facilitation, communication, and problem solving skills.
Desired qualifications/non essential skills required:
. SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), or equivalent Agile certification.
. Experience with petabyte scale data migration programs, data engineering workflows, or ETL pipeline operations.
. Background supporting DOJ, FBI, Intelligence Community, or other national security customers.
. Familiarity with cloud services (AWS preferred), DevSecOps tooling, and CI/CD automation.
Due to the nature of this government contract, US Citizenship is required.
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $80,600.00 $176,300.00.
CGI Federal's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
. Competitive compensation
. Comprehensive insurance options
. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
. Paid parental leave
. Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
. Wellness and Well being programs
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Skills:

• Agile
• Amazon Web Services Cloud
• Communication
• SAFe
• Scrum Master