1780 - Scrum Master/Site Lead

Sigma Defense•San Diego, CA

21d

About The Position

Sigma Defense is seeking a Scrum Master/Site Lead to join its team in San Diego, California. The role is a key connection between team members, technical leadership, program management, and the customer. It helps keep priorities aligned, resolve obstacles, and support consistent delivery of high-quality capabilities. The position combines site leadership, team coordination, customer engagement, and Scrum facilitation for technical personnel working across software development, DevSecOps, cloud services, cybersecurity, infrastructure, networking, and application support. The role serves as the primary day-to-day site lead for assigned Sigma Defense Systems personnel and as the team's Scrum Master. It coordinates work across technical disciplines, maintains awareness of activities, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues, and helps ensure team work supports customer priorities and program objectives. The Site Lead also provides program leadership with timely updates and supports onboarding and team effectiveness. As Scrum Master, the position facilitates Agile ceremonies, supports backlog and sprint planning, tracks commitments and impediments, and helps the team improve its delivery processes. The role requires sufficient technical understanding to identify dependencies, risks, priorities, and actions, and to communicate effectively with technical staff, program leaders, customers, and other stakeholders. This position requires 10 or more years of relevant experience, a bachelor's degree in a related field, and a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification. The candidate must be a U.S. citizen and possess or be able to obtain an active Secret clearance or higher, with the ability to obtain TS/SCI. Clearance sponsorship may be available for the right candidate. The annual salary range is $165,000–$185,000.

Requirements

At least 10 years of relevant experience.
Professional experience leading or coordinating technical teams in software, cloud, IT, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related environment.
Experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Team Lead, Technical Project Lead, Site Lead, or in a similar position.
Strong working knowledge of Scrum and Agile development practices.
Experience facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Experience tracking work through Agile project-management or issue-tracking platforms.
Strong organizational skills and ability to coordinate multiple priorities, dependencies, and deadlines.
Demonstrated ability to identify and remove impediments affecting team execution.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including communication with technical personnel, program leadership, customers, and other stakeholders.
Ability to understand technical discussions sufficiently to identify dependencies, risks, priorities, and required actions.
Experience coordinating activities across multiple technical disciplines.
Ability to operate effectively when mission priorities and technical requirements change rapidly.
Demonstrated ability to lead through communication, organization, accountability, and collaboration.
U.S. citizenship.
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification.
Must possess or be able to obtain an active Secret security clearance or higher, with the ability to obtain TS/SCI.
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
Computer programs/software: Jira, GitLab, and Microsoft Azure.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting programs within a Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), or other mission-focused government environment.
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams of software developers, DevSecOps engineers, cloud engineers, cybersecurity personnel, system administrators, help desk personnel, or similar technical professionals.
Familiarity with Microsoft Azure and cloud-based application environments.
Familiarity with software-development lifecycles, CI/CD, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, and modern cloud-development practices.
Experience supporting teams developing or operating mission-critical applications and services.
Experience working directly with government customers and technical stakeholders.
Experience coordinating work across geographically distributed teams.
Experience with Agile planning and tracking tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or comparable platforms.
Experience with scaled or multi-team Agile environments.
Experience preparing program status reports, customer briefings, delivery metrics, and leadership updates.
Clearance may be sponsored for the right candidate.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary day-to-day site lead for assigned Sigma Defense Systems personnel.
Provide leadership, coordination, and operational direction to a multidisciplinary technical team.
Act as a primary interface between team members, Sigma Defense Systems program leadership, and customer representatives.
Maintain awareness of technical activities, priorities, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues across the team.
Keep team activities aligned with customer priorities and overall program objectives.
Coordinate work across software development, DevSecOps, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, networking, and support functions.
Facilitate communication between technical teams and help resolve cross-team dependencies.
Identify issues affecting team performance or mission delivery and coordinate resolution with appropriate personnel.
Provide program leadership with timely information on team activities, accomplishments, risks, staffing concerns, and emerging issues.
Assist with onboarding and integration of new team members.
Promote a collaborative, accountable, and mission-focused team environment.
Help remove organizational and procedural obstacles that interfere with personnel effectiveness.
Coordinate with technical leads while respecting and leveraging their subject-matter expertise.
Help ensure commitments to customers and program leadership are understood, tracked, and completed.
Serve as the team's Scrum Master and facilitate Agile ceremonies and team coordination activities.
Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Work with product owners, customer representatives, technical leads, and team members to maintain a clear, prioritized backlog.
Translate mission priorities and customer requirements into actionable team work.
Ensure user stories and work items have sufficient information, acceptance criteria, and context for execution.
Track sprint commitments, work in progress, dependencies, impediments, and completion status.
Identify and help remove obstacles preventing completion of planned work.
Protect the team from unnecessary disruptions while responding to legitimate mission priorities.
Encourage realistic sprint planning based on team capacity, dependencies, and technical complexity.
Facilitate productive retrospectives focused on measurable process improvements.
Monitor Agile metrics and delivery trends to identify issues and opportunities for improvement.
Encourage continuous improvement without letting Agile processes become administrative overhead.
Adapt Agile practices as needed for the mission and technical environment.