1780 - Scrum Master/Site Lead

Sigma Defense•San Diego, CA

22d•$165,000 - $185,000•Onsite

About The Position

Sigma Defense is seeking a Scrum Master/Site Lead to join its team in San Diego, California. The position connects team members, technical leadership, program management, and the customer to keep priorities aligned, address obstacles, and support consistent delivery of high-quality capabilities. The role combines Scrum facilitation, customer priority coordination, issue resolution, delivery tracking, and support for technical personnel working toward mission objectives. The successful candidate will support teams across software development, DevSecOps, cloud services, cybersecurity, infrastructure, networking, and application support. The position serves as the primary day-to-day site lead for assigned Sigma Defense Systems personnel and provides leadership, coordination, and operational direction to a multidisciplinary technical team. It also serves as the team’s Scrum Master, facilitating Agile ceremonies and supporting effective development and delivery processes. The role coordinates with team members, program leadership, customer representatives, product owners, and technical leads; tracks commitments and delivery; supports onboarding; and helps remove organizational, procedural, and execution obstacles. The role is based in San Diego, CA. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, possess or be able to obtain an active Secret clearance or higher with the ability to obtain TS/SCI, and hold a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification. A bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field is required. The stated salary range is $165,000–$185,000 annually.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant experience.
Professional experience leading or coordinating technical teams in a software, cloud, IT, cybersecurity, engineering, or related environment.
Experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Team Lead, Technical Project Lead, Site Lead, or in a similar role.
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 using 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.
Ability to communicate effectively 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.
Must be a U.S. citizen.
Must hold a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification.
Must possess or have the ability to obtain an active Secret security clearance or higher, with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI.
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field of study.
Experience with Jira.
Experience with GitLab.
Experience with Microsoft Azure.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting programs in a Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), or other mission-focused government environment.
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams that include software developers, DevSecOps engineers, cloud engineers, cybersecurity personnel, system administrators, help desk staff, 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.
Serve as a primary interface among team members, Sigma Defense Systems program leadership, and customer representatives.
Maintain awareness of team activities, priorities, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues.
Keep team activities aligned with customer priorities and 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 their resolution.
Provide program leadership with timely information about 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 affecting personnel’s ability to perform effectively.
Coordinate with technical leads while respecting and leveraging their subject-matter expertise.
Ensure customer and program leadership commitments 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 include 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 remaining responsive to legitimate mission priorities.
Encourage realistic sprint planning based on team capacity, dependencies, and technical complexity.
Facilitate retrospectives focused on measurable process improvements.
Monitor Agile metrics and delivery trends to identify potential issues and opportunities for improvement.
Encourage continuous improvement while avoiding unnecessary administrative overhead from Agile processes.
Adapt Agile practices as needed to fit the mission and technical environment.