Production Product Owner/Scrum Master

Leidos•Bethesda, MD

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

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

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field and 12 or more years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree and 10 or more years of relevant experience.
Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
Experience managing and prioritizing a backlog involving production incidents and operational defects, preventive maintenance and technical debt, environment changes and release support, data-quality remediation and validation, monitoring, and vulnerability remediation.
Experience with production operations and support processes, including incident and 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.
Enthusiastic and collaborative approach, with comfort working with teammates across a range of technical backgrounds.

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, or SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent demonstrated experience.

Responsibilities

Own, maintain, and prioritize the Production Team backlog for production 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 needs with planned maintenance, preventive actions, security remediation, and long-term reliability improvements.
Facilitate 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 across 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; escalate cross-team dependencies, decisions, resource constraints, and operational risks when needed.
Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies, including sprint planning and reviews with demos, sprint retrospectives, and PI Planning.
Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles to support continuous improvement.