Production Product Owner/Scrum Master

Leidos•Bethesda, MD

10d•$131,300 - $237,350•Hybrid

About The Position

Leidos is seeking a TS/SCI-cleared Production Product Owner/Scrum Master to support production-environment maintenance, operational sustainment, and data-quality improvement for the DIA-NDOC DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). The role is part of a 10-year program supporting the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization effort. Most work is performed onsite at the customer location in Bethesda, Maryland, with a flexible schedule and occasional opportunities for remote work. The Product Owner works with the Lead Systems Engineer, Release Train Engineer, and government leads to break down high-priority product-roadmap requirements into delivered solutions. The role owns and prioritizes the Production Team backlog, balancing incidents, defects, preventive maintenance, technical debt, data-quality remediation, security findings, and planned operational enhancements. It also facilitates Agile and SAFe ceremonies, coordinates dependencies across technical and mission teams, and coaches teams in Agile and Scrum practices to support continuous improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field and 12 or more years of prior relevant experience, or a master's degree and 10 or more years of prior relevant experience.
Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
Experience managing and prioritizing a backlog that includes production incidents and operational defects, preventive maintenance and technical debt, environment changes and release-support activities, data-quality remediation and validation, monitoring, and vulnerability remediation.
Experience with production operations and support processes, including incident management, problem management, root-cause analysis, change management, release coordination, service restoration, and post-incident corrective actions.
Familiarity with data-quality management concepts, including validation, completeness, accuracy, timeliness, consistency, reconciliation, defect tracking, and remediation workflows.
Ability to translate operational needs into clear epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, priorities, and definitions of done.
Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and cross-team dependency discussions.
Ability to coordinate effectively with developers, production support personnel, platform and CI/CD teams, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity personnel, data owners, and mission stakeholders.
Strong facilitation, prioritization, stakeholder-management, written-communication, and organizational skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience serving as a Scrum Master for multiple technical teams or a team-of-teams delivery structure.
Familiarity with Kubernetes, Elastic, Redis, CI/CD tooling, GitOps, infrastructure automation, or cloud-native application operations.
Experience with observability tools and practices, including dashboards, metrics, logs, alerting, service-level indicators, and service-level objectives.
Experience with data governance, data quality, master data, ETL/ELT, data reconciliation, or data lineage activities.
Experience coordinating incident response, change advisory processes, release readiness, and operational readiness reviews.
Product Owner and/or Scrum Master certification, such as CSPO, PSPO, CSM, PSM, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent demonstrated experience.

Responsibilities

Own, maintain, and prioritize the Production Team backlog for production-environment sustainment, data-quality improvement, operational enhancements, and technical debt.
Translate operational needs, incidents, stakeholder requests, and data-quality findings into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint-ready work.
Balance urgent production-support requirements with planned maintenance, preventive actions, security remediation, and long-term reliability improvements.
Facilitate Production Team Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Track production incidents, recurring defects, and root-cause corrective actions to ensure they are prioritized, assigned, and completed.
Coordinate data-quality remediation, including issue intake, validation criteria, ownership, prioritization, status reporting, and closure verification.
Identify and manage dependencies among the Production Team, application-development teams, Platform Team, CI/CD Team, infrastructure/OS team, database team, cybersecurity personnel, and data owners.
Help remove impediments affecting Production, Platform, and CI/CD teams, escalating cross-team dependencies, decisions, resource constraints, and operational risks when necessary.
Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies, including sprint planning, sprint reviews and demos, sprint retrospectives, and PI planning.
Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles to support continuous improvement.