GDI Scrum Master

Leidos; Illinois; On-site; USD 92,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health and wellness

Income protection

Paid leave & retirement

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to support the RTNV Capability portfolio on the GSM-O II contract at DISA. The role requires on-site work at Scott AFB, IL, with a Secret clearance.

You will facilitate SAFe ceremonies, remove obstacles, and partner with Product Owners to deliver features in a large-scale integration program. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of relevant experience (or 6+ with a master's), holds an Agile/Scrum certification, and is proficient with Jira/Confluence.

Qualifications

• US citizenship and active DoD secret clearance.
• On-site commute to Scott AFB, IL.
• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years (or master's with 6+ years) of relevant experience.
• CSM/SSM or PMI-ACP or similar agile certification.
• Experience using Jira and agile project management tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate team to meet PI commitments.
• Protect team from scope creep during PI execution.
• Remove impediments and coordinate with RTE/PM.
• Lead SAFe ceremonies: backlog grooming, sprint planning, reviews, demos, retrospectives, PI planning.
• Develop user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders.
• Maintain information radiators and team metrics.

Skills

Agile Scrum

Team facilitation

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SAFe

Job description

The Leidos Digita; Sector has a career opportunity for a Scrum Master, supporting the Real-Time Network Visibility (RTNV) Capability portfolio on the Global Management System (GMS) for the Global Solutions Management – Operations II (GSM‑O II) contract at DISA. This contract includes the Operations, Sustainment, Maintenance, Repair, and Defense of the Defense Information System Network (DISN) within the DOD Information Network (DODIN) in support of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). It also includes support to other key tasks for DISA, including the transformation of DISA's operational mission through innovation, and support to DISA's mission partners. Candidate must be willing and able to be on site at Scott AFB daily, and at a minimum, a Secret clearance is required upon the start of employment. This GMS role requires an experienced Agile Scrum Master to work on a large-scale software and hardware integration effort.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for facilitating team to ensure the team is making progress against Program Increment commitments.
• Protects the team from scope creep during execution of the PI.
• Removes impediments for the team and coordinates with the Release Train Engineer or Project Manager in implementing solutions.
• Helps team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate.
• Supports and enforces Scrum process and other rules.
• Ensures that the team has a clear understanding of Definition of Done and how to meet it.
• Coordinates with other teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) and communicates status to management.
• Works with the Product Owner(s) to review and prioritize features.
• Leads and facilitates SAFe ceremonies to include backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, demos, sprint retrospectives, and PI planning.
• Works with Product Owner(s) to develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria.
• Elicits, analyzes, and documents business and system requirements from stakeholders and translates them into clear epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Supports the Product Owner(s) in backlog refinement by ensuring requirements are complete, testable, and traceable to customer needs.
• Develops and maintains supporting artifacts such as process flows, use cases, data flow diagrams, requirements traceability matrices, and other documentation as needed.
• Serves as a liaison between technical teams and business/customer stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of requirements and priorities.
• Maintains and generates information radiators for the teams.
• Collects and shares team metrics with the team, determines when new metrics are needed, and develops improvements in metrics.
• Coaches teams on agile and scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement.
• Observes team dynamics, recognizes strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coaches the team as a whole driving improvement in productivity.
• Creates a fun sharing and learning environment, experimenting with various ideas to improve delivery including pair-programming and cross-functional training.
• Promotes teamwork to achieve sprint goals.
• Leads teams towards agile maturity.
• Open to receiving mentoring from senior Scrum Masters.

Basic Qualifications

• Requires a US Citizenship.
• Must hold an active DoD Secret clearance.
• Must be able to commute to Scott AFB, IL for full time on-site support.
• Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years of relevant experience or master's with 6+ years of prior relevant experience.
• Additional years of work experience in lieu of degree is acceptable.
• Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience working as a Scrum Master on a software development or other technical team.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP).
• Experience using agile project management tools (e.g. Jira).
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, and time management skills are a must.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, across diverse systems and groups.
• Willingness to further grow and enhance skillset from more senior Scrum Masters throughout each project.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience Planning project milestones with due dates, communication and facilitation, documentation, testing and validation, change management support Experience facilitating Scrum Ceremonies, Removing Operational Impediments, Protecting Team Focus, Assisting the Product Owner with backlog optimization techniques to maximize value delivery.
• Experience Organizing/planning Requirements gathering and analysis, solution design, evaluation, and acceptance.
• Experience facilitating development of artifacts such as use cases, user stories, process flows, data flow diagrams, and requirements traceability matrices.
• Experience with business process modeling and improvement methodologies (e.g., BPMN, Lean, Six Sigma).
• Experience facilitating requirements‑gathering sessions and workshops with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to bridge the gap between business/customer stakeholders and technical development teams.
• Experience with JIRA, Git and Confluence.
• Understanding of ITIL foundation or ITIL certified.
• AWS cloud certifications.
• Experience working with large software systems including hardware integration and test.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical development teams.
• Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology.
• Experience moving from a legacy application to a new application.
• Experience affecting change in organizations working towards agile adoption.
• Experience applying test automation, test‑driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the team.
• Experience using Kanban to improve flow on support teams.
• Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps and CI/CD implementation.
• Experience with DISA and DoD Networks.
• Experience facilitating requirements‑gathering sessions and workshops with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to bridge the gap between business/customer stakeholders and technical development teams.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers.

• competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave and Retirement

More details are available here.

Pay Range: Pay Range $92,300.00 - $166,850.00

Original Posting

Original Posting: October 27, 2026 For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

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Commitment and Diversity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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