Senior Scrum Master

About the role

Amentum is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to join its Intel and Cyber division at Fort Meade, MD, supporting DISA. The role leads challenging, high-visibility projects that affect national defense and intelligence missions, acting as the catalyst for an agile team of engineers and architects building an IT enterprise solution. The schedule is 8 hours per day, Monday through Friday.

Key responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end project execution with a hybrid approach: predictive planning for high-level work and iterative Agile for technical execution.
• Facilitate SAFe ceremonies at team and program level, including Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives and PI Planning.
• Partner with the Government PMO and Amentum leadership on status reports, the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and project performance metrics.
• Maintain RAID logs (risks, action items, issues, decisions) and brief mitigation strategies to stakeholders.
• Remove impediments for the engineering team and track metrics such as velocity, burn-up/burn-down, cumulative flow and SLA compliance.
• Translate engineering milestones into sprints, epics, features and user stories in Jira/Confluence, and manage the backlog with Product Owners and System Engineers.
• Coordinate schedules with external contractors, site teams and third-party test agencies, run post-project reviews and set up RACI matrices and team operating agreements.
• Lead project readiness reviews, manage authorized service interruptions (ASIs) and help create deployment schedules and checklists.

Required profile

• 15 years of experience in IT project management, systems engineering or technical program execution, including 7 years in hybrid methodologies and 3 years in a senior Scrum Master or Project Manager role.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, IT, Project Management, Systems Engineering or a related field; additional experience can substitute for the degree.
• Proven experience implementing SAFe, PI Planning and Agile Release Trains, and working with Government stakeholders such as DISA PMs.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility; ability to work in a SCIF and occasionally in a datacenter, and to travel up to 10%.
• Preferred: PMP, SAFe certifications (SASM, SSM, RTE), PMI-ACP or CSP, and DoD 8140/8570.01-M IAT Level II.

Required skills

• Predictive scheduling and IMS development (MS Project).
• Jira and Confluence, including custom workflows and velocity tracking.
• Risk management and RAID logs.
• Experience with secure cloud environments (AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure Government) supporting DoD IL5 or higher is preferred.