Scrum Master – Senior

CGI • Huntsville, AL

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About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging.
• You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life.
• We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
• Your work creates value.
• You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
• You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last.
• You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior